Sound
Sounds of Leominster Morris
This is the sounds section. All of the sounds below are in mp3 format. To hear these you must be running windows 98 or above. If you are running wondows 98 you will need to download some software capable of playing mp3 files from here.
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Wassail Night 2000
The Wassail 3Mb
The Leominster Morris Wassail 2000 was held on the 6th of January at Aymestrey. This is a sound clip of Ian's second attempt at the Wassail song.
The Mummer's Play 3Mb
The Leominster Morris Mummer's Play for Christmas 1999 and 12th night 2000 was constructed by Thony Handy from traditional plays collected from Herefordshire and Shropshire. This is a sound clip of the Black Prince's demise at the hands of St George.
Tom Poston's Stick Dance 1.86Mb
This Leominster Morris dance was reconstructed from fragments collected by Dr E C Cawte. Tom Poston was a member of Leominster Morris from about 1906 to 1925. He died in June 1957.
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