Phoenix had a great time at Swanage folk festival this year with some glorious sunshine and fun other sides to dance with. 

This year we decided to join in the dancing at St Mary’s on Sunday morning for the first time in a few years. It was a lovely opportunity to see a range of other sides perform and we also had some very kind compliments on our performance of Upton Stick.

Another great year at one of our regular festivals.

It’s been a busy couple of weeks for Phoenix and the sun has most definitely been shining on us for every dance out!

Last weekend a small group of us attended the Queens Oak/ Rose and Castle weekend and had a fab time camping and dancing. As always,  the host sides did a fantastic job!

On Wednesday Phoenix joined a whole host of other sides for the annual St Michael’s evening in St Albans. It was the usual chaotic cacophony of Morris and loads of fun!

Today we danced at Fulmer Fete where we were ‘waistcoats off’ in the afternoon heat. Sadly the audience was somewhat depleted… apparently there was a football match going on…!

Phoenix had a great time dancing out in Marlow with Tappas Tump last week. Thought we’d share some piccies…

With most of the side off on their holibobs a small but perfectly formed  group of dancers and musicians represented Phoenix at this year’s St Albans Folk Day. With only 6 dancers we were limited in our repertoire but made up for it by debuting 4 person versions of 6 person dances!

All in all it was another great day and Phoenix did themselves proud, finishing off with a lively ‘Three Musketeers’ outside St Albans Abbey.

Thanks again to our hosts,  St Albans Morris for having us!

Wednesday was a busy day for Phoenix. In the afternoon a group of us went to a local primary school to teach ‘A class some Morris dancing… turned out there were 300 of them! It was a great afternoon though and feedback from the school is that the kids are now making up their own dances 🙂

In the evening we danced at The Feathers in Ricmkansworth to celebrate Rickyweek here in Rickmansworth.  A good warm up for our weekend dancing at the Rickmansworth waterways festival this weekend!