Brian Tasker , of Hartley Morris Men & Castleford Longsword became the Squire of the Morris Ring, taking the Staff of Office over from Paul Reece, of Thaxted Morris Men, at the 316th Morris Ring Meeting in Totnes town square on Sunday August 7th. Brian will be Squire for the next two years.

The highlights of this Newsletter are:

Page   Contents
2  New Squire Dances in 2
2  Massed Dances 2
3  New Look Annual Representatives’ Meeting (Note corrected date) 3
5  Standards: The presentation of the Morris 5
7  Morris Ring Meetings and Women musicians 7
7  Joint Morris Organisations: Cultural Olympiad 7
8  The Vision Continues 8
9  Celebrating Britishness – the British Bank Holiday 9
10 Recruitment – Hartley Style 10
11 2008 Longsword Tournament and Day of Dance 11
12 Travels of the Squire (Elect) 12
12 Treasurer’s Ramblings – inc. Annual Sub. & The Letchworth CDs 12
14 An Index of the meetings of the Morris Ring (& Centre fold) 14
T14 he Morris Ring Musicians Instructional 14
14 Big National Ceilidh 14
15 Recruitment - Etcetera style 15
15 Fools and Beasts Unconvention 2009: Last call 15
16 Jigs Instructional 2009 16
16 Morris in the Media – including Recruitment Gloucester MM style 16
24 The Morris Ring’s 75th Anniversary Meetings – Details of 24
Application Forms:
28 Fools & Beasts Unconvention 28
30 Musicians’ Instructional 30
32 Jigs Instructional 32
34 Morris Ring Meetings 34

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October 2008