Summertown Morris

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Summertown Morris

🪗Women's Cotswold Morris side from Oxford
🌾Dancing traditions from Ascott, Wheatley, and Ducklington
🧵Email us for bookings or to join the side

Summertown Morris are a women's Cotswold Morris side formed in Autumn 2011. We dance in a number of traditions from the Oxfordshire villages of Ascott-under-Wychwood, Wheatley, and Ducklington. If anyone is interested in dancing with us please get in touch – experience is welcome but not compulsory, and we’d love to see you. We’re proud to be a queer and trans inclusive side, so if you’re a woman or non-binary person who’s happy dancing in our style and kit, you’d be welcome to join us! We practice on Monday evenings from October to April at the Cherwell School, Oxford, and will be welcoming new dancers in October 2026 and January 2027.

19/09/2026

In between Summertown dance outs, our dancers and musicians have had a busy summer dancing, playing and calling at plenty of festivals 🎪

Pretty sure we reached a record at The Sidmouth Folk Festival with 6 social dances and 3 dance teams performing as part of the festival involving members of Summertown, plus doing our own busking on the sea front 🌊

Here’s some photos of what we got up to that week - getting to support our Summertown friends in their own performance careers was such a joy!

08/09/2026

It was beautiful evening at Shrewsbury Folk Festival, and we were a horrible hydra 🪼

We spent the Greek Mythology ceilidh as a many headed hydra, and kept our costumes on to dance Stanton Harcourt at David Eagle’s folk DJ set too! There’s nothing like being a big ol sea monster with 15 of your best friends (+ a honourable mention to our glittery Herecles, Naomi), a lot of sock puppets, and googly eyes to stick on everything 👀

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05/09/2026

Come see us dance at BunkFest! Today!

Amy *may* have forgotten in all the post-Shrewsbury excitement that we had another festival to advertise (whoops!) so here it is, the morning of. We're looking forward to being back in the county and seeing old friends, hopefully with better weather than last weekend!

Our schedule is as follows:
11am Market Place (with Strictly Clog)
1pm Bullcroft Dance Stage (with Clerical Error Morris Dancers and Street Entertainers - Y 'Clerigwyr')
2pm The Dolphin (with Towersey Horseshoes)
3pm High Street (with Fool's Gambit Morris)

04/09/2026

Shrewsbury Folk Festival was a joyful weekend of dancing, but it wasn’t just that…

It also involved a lot of googly eyes and blue glitter, heaps of blue jackets, instrument cases and sleepy morris dancers, lovely balfolk, Sloe Gin (the liquid as well as the dance), and threats to our melodeon players! In all, we had a great time 💙🧡🤍

02/09/2026

We had a brilliant time dancing Shrewsbury Folk Festival - thank you so much to for inviting us! The rain didn’t put us off and we loved dancing both on the festival site and in Shrewsbury itself, bringing our Oxfordshire dances to the borders for a weekend. We were having too much fun to take many photos, but here’s the first instalment: the dancing we did 💃

If you missed us at Shrewsbury, we’ll be BunkFest this Saturday so come and watch us there!

26/08/2026

We're looking forward to heading to Shrewsbury Folk Festival this weekend for a long weekend of dancing and making new friends! Here's our full schedule of where we'll be, including the parade on Sunday and a ceilidh spot Monday lunchtime. Oh, and look out for our group costume at the Greek Mythology themed ceilidh on Saturday night... 🐟🐙🦑

22/08/2026

It's only a week until we head over to Shrewsbury Folk Festival in Shropshire! Our schedule is already on the website, and will be on our Instagram next week - we'll be at the festival site and in the town centre, so lots of opportunities to see us dance. Here's some slo-mo film of us at May Morning in Oxford, with a soundtrack of Bailey & Keely (who you can also see at Shrewsbury, in the dance tent at 11:30 on Saturday morning) 🌿

video: Alasdair Burchill
editing: Naomi Morris
music: Bailey & Keely

20/08/2026

We've reached the end of our pub nights season, and what a lovely one it's been! Here are some photos from dance outs at The Plough Inn - Finstock, in Eynsham (including joining Eynsham Morris for Jockey), and at The Boat Inn Thrupp. Thank you to all the teams we've danced with, the pubs who've hosted us, and everyone who's come to watch 💙

We've got a couple more festivals still this summer - Shrewsbury Folk Festival at the end of August and BunkFest the weekend after - so more details to follow about those soon!

31/07/2026

Just one more pub night this year with our good friends Eynsham Morris, and then it's on to festivals for the rest of the summer! We're looking forward to dancing at White Horse Folk festival, Shrewsbury Folk Festival and BunkFest - full schedules coming soon. And you never know, you might catch us busking at The Sidmouth Folk Festival as well! 🎪

30/06/2026

Not managed to see us yet this summer season? Here's where we're going to be throughout July
We've got pub nights with Icknield Way Morris Men, Mason's Apron Morris, and Mr Hemmings Traditional Abingdon Morris Dancers, and are joining Mr Hemmings for Summertown at Mr Hemmings Day Abingdon on the 11th too! 🌞

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Eynsham

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http://summertownmorris.wordpress.com/

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