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Bradford
  • Persephone: Bradford Women's Morris
    Women's North West Morris.
    Meets Tuesdays, weekly, 7.30 pm at Hunsworth Community Centre, near M62 junction 26 (male musicians welcome).
    Contact: Margaret Fowler
    Telephone: 01924 474203
    Email: rose-hudson@supanet.com
Castleford Cleckheaton
  • Spen Valley Longsword
    Traditional Yorkshire Longsword.
    Meets Mondays at The Golden Fleece, Birkenshaw. Social emphasis, new members welcome.
    Contact: David Webster
    168 Halifax Road, Batley, West Yorkshire WF17 7RE
    Telephone: 01924 402897
Halifax
  • Annapurna Indian Dance Company
    Indian dance based mainly on the Bharata Natyam style. Performances regularly include storytellers and puppeteers. Workshops and educational projects available.
    Contact: Shantha Rao
    Telephone: 01422 365103
    Email: info@annapurnadance.com
    Website: http://www.annapurnadance.com/
    See also Workshops

  • Noroc
    Step clog: mixed gender. All dances named for parts of Calderdale.
    Meets Wednesdays at the Grove Inn, Brierley.
    Contact: Sharon Kirk
    111 Ravenstone Drive, Greetland, Halifax, West Yorkshire, HX4 8DY
    Telephone: 01422 378345
    Email: shazkrk@aol.com

Haworth Huddersfield
  • Kirkburton Rapier Dancers
    Men's Longsword.
    Meets alternate Wednesdays at the Carlton Club.
    Contact: Tom Stringfellow
    Telephone: 07870 435204
    Email: secretary@kirkburtonrapier.co.uk
    Website: http://www.kirkburtonrapier.co.uk/

  • Slubbing Billy's
    Mixed North West Morris.
    Meets Tuesdays 8 - 10 pm, weekly (Sept-May) at Slaithwaite Community Centre.
    Contact: Alex Bywaters
    Telephone: 01484 682496
    Email: a.bywaters@virgin.net
    Website: http://www.slubbingbillys.org.uk/

  • White Rose Morris Men
    Cotswold Morris.
    Meets Wednesdays, weekly, at Marsh Liberal Club, 8.00 pm.
    New members welcome.
    Contact: Richard Fowler
    53 Lower Mill Bank Road, Sowerby Bridge, Halifax, West Yorkshire HX6 3ED
    Telephone: 01422 823171
Keighley
  • Fiddle & Feet
    Appalachian. Morris Federation members.
    Meets Tuesdays at East Malton Institute, East Malton, Keighley.
    Contact: David Carr
    28 Rhodes Street, Saltaire, Shipley, West Yorkshire BD18 3JJ
    Telephone: 01274 588276

  • Inclognito
    Traditional and innovative step-clogging and percussive dance. Available for ceilidh spots and workshops.
    Contact: Paul Hudson
    Telephone: 01282 868 040
    Email: paul@clogfest.org
    Website: http://www.clogfest.org/inclognito/

  • Oakworth Mixed Morris
    Meets at Devonshire Street (Church with spire), Keighley.
    New dancers, musicians and bag carriers always welcome. Any age from 9 years up.
    Contact: Jennie Ellison
    36 Manville Road, Keighley, West Yorkshire
    Telephone: 01535 664634 or 01535 611051
Kirklees
  • Thieving Magpie
    Border morris; mainly women.
    Open Morris; a fairly new team currently recruiting dancers and musicians.
    Meets Wednesdays at Slaithwaite Methodist Church Hall.
    Contact: Helen Armitage
    Telephone:01274 878607
    Email: armitagepartnership@phonecoop.coop


Leeds
  • Briggate Morris
    Women's North West Morris.
    Meets Mondays, Notre Dame Sixth Form College.
    Contact: Sharon Kirk
    Telephone: 01422 378345 or 0113 258 5557
    Email: shazkirk@aol.com
    Website: http://home.clara.net/hairydog/briggate.html

  • Bunnies from Hell
    Straight morris with a smile.
    Yorkshire based itinerant group - 35 members from all over the country .
    Contact: Jim Clarke
    Red Worms, Weaverthorpe, Malton, North Yorkshire YO17 8PQ
    Telephone: 01944 738422

  • Damhsa
    Traditional Irish dance and music show. "Riverdance" routines with harp, fiddle, flute, accordion, banjo, bouzouki, bodhran and singers. World class dancers and musicians. BBC and HRH performances.
    Available internationally.
    Contact: Chris Maguire
    30 Charlestown, Ackworth, nr Pontefract, West Yorkshire WF7 7DU
    Telephone: 01977 614409
    Email: Ceilihouse5758@aol.com
    Website: http://www.damhsa.co.uk/

  • Leeds Morris Men
    Men's Cotswold Morris.
    Meets Thursdays, Notre Dame Sixth Form College.
    Contact: Moss Ambrose
    Telephone: 0113 278 1202
    Email: info@leedsmorris.org.uk
    Website: http://www.leedsmorris.org.uk/index.html

Otley Pontefract
  • T'Gradely Lasses
    Women's Morris, individual style.
    Meets Tuesdays, weekly at Micklegate Methodist Church Hall.
    Contact: Sonia Atkin
    Telephone: 01977 709992
    Email: sonia@atkinfam.freeserve.co.uk

Ripponden Saltaire
  • Clogaire
    Step clog routines from trad and not-so-trad sources.
    Meets Mondays at Victoria Hall, Saltaire.
    Mixed team, all ages; new members welcome. Emphasis on fun.
    Contact: Barbara Binless
    5 Norfolk Mount, Chapel Allerton, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS7 4PU
    Telephone: 0113 2694764
    Email: clogaire@binless.co.uk
    Website: http://www.clogaire.binless.co.uk/

Shipley
  • Rainbow Morris
    Mixed North West Morris.
    Meets Mondays, weekly at Shipley Resource Centre.
    Contact: Kay Sutcliffe
    Telephone: 01274 588140
    Email: kaysutcliffe@hotmail.com

Sowerby Bridge
  • St Aidans Rapper
    Mixed Rapper.
    Meets Fridays, fortnightly at the Long Chimney Inn, Sowerby Bridge.
    Contact: Tom Stringfellow
    Telephone: 07870 435204
    Email: rushbearing@hotmail.com

  • Sowerby Bridge Morris
    Meets 1st & 3rd Thursdays of the month.
    Contact: Andrew and Liz Titley
    6 Spring View, Luddenden Foot, Halifax, West Yorkshire HX2 6EX
    Telephone: 01422 883867
    Email: lizandrew.titley@tesco.net
Wakefield Wharfedale
  • Great Yorkshire Morris
    Men's Cotswold, Longsword, Border and Rapper.
    Meets alternate Wednesdays, 8 - 10 pm at Pool Memorial Hall, Pool in Wharfedale.
    Contact: Bob Carter
    Brookside Cottage, Forest Moor Road, Knaresborough, North Yorkshire HG5 8JY
    Telephone: 01423 863433
    Email: bjcarter@ntlworld.com

 

 
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