Jack in the Green Morris Men

      Jack in the Green Morris Men are from the Monadnock Region of Southwest New Hampshire. They perform dances in the style developed in the Cotswold Hills of England in the 19th century. Morris dancing dates back to the English courts of the 14th Century  and may be considerably older than that. We specialize in the dances from the villages of Bledington and Bessels Leigh, but many of our dances are originals composed in the styles of those villages.
     Our dancing season begins each year in late April at the New England Folk Festival and for 20 years we have been dancing the sun up on May Day Morning at the top of Pack Monadnock. We perform at festivals, street fairs, church celebrations and often at the spur of the moment outside pubs.We have danced throughout the Northeast and Canada.
     Our "kit" consists of handmade pale green polyester shirts, forest green Dickey's work pants chopped down into knickers and vivid green shoelaces in our black shoes.
     We are also a singing group, specializing in old songs with rousing choruses about the sea, the changes in the season, and other timeless topics.
      The  members of the 2004 team are:
  

    Carol Compton--our musician
    Jay Garrett-Larsen--the fool
    Kirk Dale--our squire or leader
    Kris Arnold --our foreman
    Craig Brandon---the green man
   Tom Buttrick
Paul Davis
Ron Branga
Jim  McCann
Al Stoops
Brian McMaster



Jack in the Green in action atop Pack Monadnock, May 1, 2003


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Last updated December 2005