To Topsham we did go, where the cold wind did blow; and blow and blow (anon)
We enjoyed an afternoon of morris dancing on Topsham Quay for Devon Folk Day. Dancer, Mary F conjures up a vivid representation of our experience in her latest poem... To Topsham we did go ...
A Higgledy-Piggledy Place by the Sea
Glory of the West enjoy an active social calendar as well as full programme of morris dancing. We do lots of non-morris related things together, including going for walks, arts and crafts, other dance ...
First Glorious Year
Caroline Flowerdew, one of our new dancers, reflects on her first year of dancing with Glory of the West: If someone had told me this time last year that within a year I would have danced in public ...
Glory’s Stance on the Tradition of “Blacking Up” within the Morris
It's 2020 and Black Lives Matter, therefore Glory of the West feel that we can no longer support the practice of wearing full face black makeup within the morris community. We have therefore taken the ...
Practising and Performing
We began our practice season at the beginning of October and it has been exciting to welcome four new dancers. We've been putting them through their paces, teaching them some of our Ascott Under Wychw ...
Summer “Holidays”
Where did the summer go?! We’ve finished our summer dance out season and are back practicing and learning new dances. We’ve had a busy year, as well as our usual Wednesday evening dance outs and s ...
A Spring in our step*
As with most new year's resolutions, the one we made to blog more appears to have been forgotten about until April. But there is something fresh-feeling about Spring and at least this way we have plen ...
Glorious Resolutions!
Happy practice people 09/01/2019 Happy New Year from all of us at Glory! It's been a while since we've updated our blog but what better time to start something new than New Year? Tonight was our fi ...
Practice Season
Doesn't time fly past when you are having fun? Once more we are coming to the end of our summer dancing season. We have taken it a bit easier this year after the excesses of our 40th Anniversary las ...
Winter’s Over
Well, we have had a winter of weddings, walks and mosaics. Not to mention all the usual dance practices. Our hard-working foreman, Steph, has been beating us into shape for the new season. We hav ...