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Pig Dyke Molly - News

(latest first)
Dec 2009The music CD was updated months ago, but the Current Music CD page has only just been updated
Aug 2009There's been no news posted here for a while, but plenty has happened. At least five new tunes, two composed by Anahata, and a new Dance "Global Swarming" added to the repertoire. We've had a fabulous trip to Bourges hosted by French dance group Notre Berry, and we're inviting them back for July next year. Coming up shortly: Shrewsbury Folk Festival, and much further ahead, possibly a visit to the USA (or it might be Canada now) in 2011
July 2008The promised music CD is out! see Music 2008 [now updated to 2009] for details.We'll have it for sale at Warwick Folk Festival, or you can buy online now if you can't wait
July 2008The first of this summer's four festivals was a pleasure for us - the only dance team at Belper Music Festival, and free range to dance when and where we wished...a delightful and warm reception, and it didn't rain on our dancing...see some photos via links on Pig Dyke in Action.

For the later festivals we hope to have available a CD of Pig Dyke music 2008, with the new band line-ups...watch this space and be the first in your street to order it!

Jan 2008

Robin Griggs 1957-2008

Rob died on 29th January 2008.
Personal Tributes from Pig Dyke members and friends, and downloadable music.
Jan 2008This Article about Pig Dyke Molly (PDF) appeared recently in the Northants Evening Telegraph. Downloadable by kind permission of the Evening Telegraph.

Quotes

With their faces painted to look like Edward Scissorhands, dressed in black and white Op-Art fabrics, and accompanied by a large tuba, the Pig Dyke Molly look like Dress Down Friday at the Robert Smith Academy for Troubled Youths.

At 11am on a cold, sunny day they make a slightly alarming sight, like a giant Goth gang that missed the last bus home last night and are now so out of their minds with longing for White Lightning that they're dancing for pennies.
Caitlin Moran, The Times On Line (full article)

There was a girl at the bar who said she 'didn't like folk music and all that hanky stuff' but that Pig Dyke were 'cool and funky'.
Glen describing 28 July at the Woolpack
"I was at Towersey and there were these really dark, cool looking people with what looked like to me they were wearing this KISS (metal band)like make up...black and white face paint.. just to say they looked cool as %*" !"

"I saw them in Peterborough just before Christmas...they were magnificent, numerous, entertaining, young and mixed. I'm not a Morris participant but if I were I wouldn't go anywhere near an organisation that excludes women. Whereas this lot are just the kind of shot in arm that would get a casual observer like me interested."
Internet forum discussion on the Ring's threat of imminent death of morris dancing

"Killer threads, man!"

Shouted at three members of the team in full kit and facepaint as they walked over Parker's Piece in Cambridge, May Day 2009

The [Sousa] player is a real stormer!

comment on YouTube video, suspected to be from Mike O'Connor

I thought you were fantastic & I really enjoyed your performances - the stand out part/performers of the day for me"

Spectator at Benwick Dickensian Market, November 2009

Awesome dance, great musicians, awesome costumes... I normally don't care for Molly Morris dancing, but this is kickass!

Comment on YouTube video from Straw Bear 2009

 
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