About me: Great Meadows Morris and Sword is a group of high school-age students from the Greater Boston area who perform traditional English morris and rapper sword dances. Since 1999, we have danced at festivals and special events throughout Massachusetts and New England, including NEFFA and the annual Lilac Sunday event in Boston's Arnold Arboretum. Great Meadows also has performed on the international stage: We've competed in the Dance England Rapper Tournament and were invited to the 2004 World Sword Spectacular in Whitby, England.
Morris and sword dances have been performed in England for centuries, and are now popular in the US and many other parts of the world. People of all ages are drawn to morris for its liveliness, vigor and camaraderie. True to the spirit of morris, Great Meadows offers the experience of good dancing, good exercise and good company!
Here's a look at GMMS in action:
We practice on Sundays from 5-7 p.m. during the school year at the First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church of Sudbury, at the intersection of Route 27 and Concord Road. For more information, please contact our team squire Tom Kruskal at 978-443-8940 or by e-mail at kruskalt@comcast.net.
After you've finished here, you may like to hear this folk-carol on myspace -
230 of 230, walkaboutsverse.741.com: AS GOSPELLERS HAVE SAID/CHRISTMAS SUNG SIMPLY
As gospellers have said, Beneath signalling skies, On land dusty to tread, A trough in a stable Was the strawy first-bed Of a divine baby - The forgiving Godhead.
A season for new hope - There then and here now; The yuletide of goodwill - There then and here now.
In respect of this chance, Beneath bright or dark skies, Faith’s the star that we glance Attending Christ’s churches And trying to enhance, With singing and ritual, Our God-loving stance.
What a GREAT photo of you all that is! I feel very nostalgic for '04 (the Spec just seemed to flash by)! I actually meant the one on the workshop site showing - I think - Rhett holding up a lock. It's Baden-Wurtemburg's swords according to th etitle of the jpeg. I'll post it when I can work out how to include an image in a comment...!
Thanks for the add, guys.
Holy Moley, that looks like it was one helluva sword workshop! I would have LOVED to be there! BTW, which team is showing the Langewapper lock outside the Goathland Hotel?
Everyone looks so young on that video!! You guys are amazing dancers!!! (esp. slightly green n beside the point and candy rapper jst coz i know them!!)
thanks for the add! from the vid on your page your rapper team(s?) look amazing. maybe i can use it to convince the rest of our team how amazingly cool it would be to add rapper to what we do lol.
Rapper dancers in Demon Roadshow are from Black Swan and Kingsmen...some of us helped run DERT this year...errr is that the DERT you meant, or the one before?
If it was DERT last year then you probably won't think much of Black Swan!
wow. when I saw that gmms wanted to be my friend I almost choked. We've made it to myspace.. simply amazing. keep up the good work, whoever did this. you rock.
Dude, GMM&S is teh shiznet! we totally rock the world of morris with our ridiculous 4 set morris dances and our OMFG what-the-hell-did-they-just-do rapper dancing!
