Orange Peel Morris
Orange Peel Morris
The Border Morris dancing side
from the Orangeville area
north-west of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
History
•August, 1996 — Inaugural Meeting
•November, 1996 — First Dance-Out
•November, 1998 — Orange Peel Wort
•May, 2004 and July 2008 and July 2012 — England Tours
• … summer concerts: Crucible, Johnny Collins & Graeme Knights, Doug Eunson & Sarah Matthews, Crucible (again!)
Fees and Costs
•Annual Membership Fee — $25 or so …
•Kit (Outfit/Costume) Fee — varies
•Ales, Worts, etc — $10 – $50
•Festivals, etc — Free Entrance
Practices and Rehearsals
•September to May: Thursdays from 7:30 pm – 10:00 pm, at The Avalon Nursing Home (Broadway West, Orangeville)
•May to September: Thursdays from 7:30 pm – dusk, often at Alexandra Park, Second Street, behind the Opera House, Orangeville.
Note: Summer practice locations change regularly. Call any member to confirm the location.
Dancers and Musicians
•Ali — dancer
•Ann — dancer, calendar maven
•Cathy — dancer, concertina
•Ceinwen — dancer
•Chris B — ukelele
•Chris C — dancer, whistle
•Chris E — dancer, drum
•Dave — Squire, concertina, dancer, navigator
•David — Ass's 'Oss
•Dickson — banjo, guitar
•Donna — dancer, cooks-with-spices!
•Elizabeth — fiddle, dancer
•Elswyth — dancer, fiddle
•(Mary) Grainne — dancer, flute, concertina
•Jan — fiddle
•Janet — dancer, accordion
•John B — dancer-with-light-feet, nose flute, whistle, bodran
•Joy — dancer, stick percussion
•Krystyna — dancer, fan of things black and white
•Lucy — dancer
•Magi — dancer, Bagger extraordinaire!
•Mark C — melodeon, dancer
•Mark W. — Squire, fife, whistle, pipe and tabor, dancer (?)
•Nancy — violin, dancer
•Parky — Professor Bag, dancer, concertina, keeper of history
•Pumpkin — whistle, dancer
•Shannon — Dance Fore and keeper of details
•Sherry — dancer
•Sue — dancer and cookies
•Sydney — dancer
•Tina — bodran, triangle, tambourine
•Tom — Music Fore, accordion extraordinaire, dancer
The Orange Peel's Kit
•Top Hat ... or some other hat, with or without feathers (pheasant, wild turkey or whatever …)
•Tatter Shirt/Coat (no orange, please!)
•Knickers ... or long pants ... or shorts ...
•Long Stick (1; 36 inches)
•Short Stick (2; 18 inches)
•Hankies (2)
•Knee Socks ... often of extravagant colours, and seldom matched ...
•Shoes (good arch support)
•Leg Bells (28 per leg)
•Sunglasses and bandana (optional)
•Beer mug (?optional?)
•... whatever else you can get away with ... as long as there’s no orange ...
Border Dance Repertoire
•Boghouse Door (our own dance)
•Break A Leg (our own dance by Nancy and Krystyna et al)
•Bromsberrow Heath
•Crooked Billet
•Dawley (after Basset Street Hounds and Red Stags)
•Dilwyn
•The Drunken Idiot
•Dufferin (Con-)Fusiliers (our own dance)
•Evesham
•Green Man
•Hunt The Hare (after The Witchmen)
•John Peel’s Reel Wheel (our own dance)
•Just as The Tide Was Flowing (after The Witchmen)
•Morningstar
•Mr. Dolly
•Much Wenlock
•Nightingale’s Revenge (our own dance by Shannon)
•Northumberland Musketeers
•Ockington Stick Dance
•Poston
•Stephenson’s Rock-it (after ?)
•The Prisoner
•Three-Legged Man (our own dance by John Burton)
•John Peel's Real Wheel
•Worcestershire Monkey (after Wicket Brood)
• ... in times past: The Upton-on-Cold-Barn Stick Dance / The Upton-on-Severn Stick Dance
/ Brimfield / Not Upton-on-Severn Stick Dance
• ... also some of us are known to dance-in with some Cotswold stuff ...
Links
General Morris Links (most certainly not an exhaustive list!)
•Origin of the Morris ... some of it even serious ...
Who We Are
For more information, corrections and comments,
please contact the Orange Peel web-master:
or the Orange Peel Squire
updated December 04, 2014