The Abingdon Blog has recently been featured on The Civic Coach, a website that helps civic leaders to make the most of their chance of serving their community. It is written by Abingdon’s youngest ever Mayor, Duncan Brown.
Duncan features in my most viewed Abingdon Blog youtube video ever. Normally such videos gets a few hundred views. But this video has been viewed worldwide by 117,388 people at the time of writing. Here is Duncan Brown with the Abingdon Traditional Morris Dancers from 2 years ago.
Press the youtube icon, after it starts, to watch it on youtube, and read hundreds of comments. What does the world think when they see Morris Dancing.
I love seeing Morris Dancers and whilst I understand there’s no shortage of dancers, I wonder how many up and coming musicians there are.
There’s no shortage of musicians. It is young dancers that are in short supply.
Come to the Brewery Tap this Sunday between 5pm-7pm to experience a music session with the morris musicians and friends.
Love it !
There are some pretty inane comments under that Utube entry. In the current touchy-feely World many of them probably constitute “Hate Crime/Racism” !!
(Calm down, my tongue firmly in cheek)
Best suggestion was for England’s answer to the Haka at Twickenham.
Military Aphorism: “The advantage of being considered an idiot by your enemy is the look of surprise on his face just before you defeat him.”
At least Morris did appear in the Olympics 2012 opening.
I have argued for years that if the Kiwis are allowed the Haka the Scottish should be allowed bagpipes and the Welsh should be allowed Max Boyce.
@ davidofLuton
Some years ago I visited New Zealand and was taken to a marae (a traditional community meeting house) in Rotorua by the local Anglican bishop. Since he was well known and greatly respected by the Maori people, he was greeted with the haka. When it happens just a few feet from you, it is really astounding – those guys weren’t All Blacks, but highly tattooed first nation people in full fig. Perhaps the Mayor of Ock Street could arrange a cultural exchange! I’m not sure who would be more surprised…