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Bluff King Hal

ABC file: 
Binary Data ABC
Sheet music: 
PDF icon PDF
mp3 file: 
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Tradition: 
Bidford

All traditions

  • Abingdon
  • Adderbury
  • Ascott-Under-Wychwood
  • Badby
  • Bampton
  • Bidford
  • Bledington
  • Brackley
  • Brimfield
  • Bromsberrow Heath
  • Bucknell
  • Chipping Campden
  • Ducklington
  • Evesham
  • Eynsham
  • Field Town
  • Headington
  • Hinton-in-the-Hedges
  • Ilmington
  • Kirtlington
  • Leominster
  • Lichfield
  • Longborough
  • Much Wenlock
  • Oddington
  • Pershore
  • Sherborne
  • Stanton Harcourt
  • Steeple Claydon
  • Upton Snodsbury
  • Upton-On-Severn
  • Wheatley
  • White Ladies Aston
  • Winster

Events diary

2026
3 Oct Joint Morris Organisation's Day of Dance 2026 - Reading CANCELLED
16 Oct Morris 18 - 30 Annual Weekend - Portsmouth
23 Oct Fools and Beasts Annual Unconvention - 2026
2027
9 Apr Joint Morris Organisation's Day of Dance 2027 (Sheffield)
9 Jul Wessex Morris Men 70th Anniversary Ale weekend Revisited
23 Jul Letchworth Ring Meeting 2027

See all future events

See also the list of 
Traditional Morris Events

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