Traditional Step and Morris Dancing at Furness Tradition Festival, 2006

Furness Morris Men

Amounderness Ladies Morris

Buttercross Belles
are a women's Morris team (or side) who dance mainly in a lively North West style. Team members wear tap shoes (as opposed to clogs) with a distinctive kit comprising a white short-sleeved dress over which is a green smock trimmed with purple. A decorated straw hat completes the picture.

Dawnswyr Tipyn o Bopeth (Wales)

Inverkeithing Step Dancers

Flag Crackers of Craven

The Flagcrackers of Craven are a mixed Border side based in Skipton, North Yorkshire.
Since their foundation in 1988 they have danced in locations from Eire to Belgium, from Orkney to Kent.
They black up and wear clogs and colourful rag jackets.
Their traditional dances come from the borders of England and Wales.
They celebrate life and fun in dance and music.

Inverkeithing Step Dancers (Scotland)

Pateley Prats
P.R.A.T.S (Pateley Real Ale Tasting Society, Longsword division)

Saddleworth Morris Men

Saddleworth Morris Men are a group of traditional folk dancers from the north of England. Saddleworth is a valley in the Pennine hills between Manchester and Leeds, and each of the six villages in the valley has its own unique dance. Like other Morris dances from the north-west of England, they are performed in Lancashire clogs, shoes with leather uppers, wooden soles and shod with iron. The Saddleworth dances are noisy, complex and not done by any other dance groups anywhere. The team, or 'side' as it is known, are also famous for their spectacular hats, stacked high with fresh flowers.