Join us at the 33rd Annual Takoma Park Folk Festival! A fine tradition in the DC area held at Takoma Park Middle School.  Check the schedule for when ** WE WILL BE TEACHING MORRIS! **  We also will undoubtedly be joined by many other local morris and sword teams, dancing near the entrance, dancing in the halls...even dancing between sets as musicians spend time setting up!

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Revels Sunfest: a big multicultural festival in downtown Silver Sprung (Fenton/Georgia/Ellsworth) with cultures from around the world represented.  There will be a morris dancing side with representatives from local teams!
See The Washington Revels website for more details.

Come watch us as we celebrate summer with a few thousand close folkie friends at the 30th Annual Washington Folk Festival!  We'll be dancing around in various locations and possibly make guest appearances at some events.

10:45-11:45 am Dance at Logan Circle Park
2:15-2:45 pm Dance at McPherson Square
     ~Executive Branch of Government~
3:00-4:00 pm Dance outside the White House/Lafayette Square
See Saturday's schedule for the Judicial and Legislative Branches!
                 ~Teams~
Foggy Bottom Morris Men (Washington, DC)
Bows & Belles Northwest (Colchester, UK)
Arlington Northwest Women (Arlington, VA)
Renegade Morris (Bryn Mawr, PA)
Rock Creek Morris Women (Washington, DC)
Cutting Edge Sword (Washington, DC)

Our First "Three Branches of Government Ale"; we are destined for infamy of one sort or another...
      ~Judicial Branch of Government~
10:30-11:15 am Dance outside Supreme Court
      ~Legislative Branch of Government~
1:30-2:30 pm Dance at US Capitol Lower West Terrace
4-5 pm Dance the Temperance Fountain Monument and Navy Memorial Archives (Seamen's Hymn to be sung at 5:00 pm)
5:15-5:45 pm Show Dance outside National Portrait Gallery
See Sunday's schedule for the Executive Branch!
                  ~Teams:~
Foggy Bottom Morris Men (Washington, DC)
Bows & Belles (Colchester, UK)
Arlington Northwest Women (Arlington, VA)
Kingsessings Morris Men (Philadelphia, PA)
Renegade Morris (Bryn Mawr, PA)

The Foggy Bottom Morris Men will be appearing in this year's May Revels, along with singers and actors of the Washington Revels company.

Because we come out to dance, the sun will rise at 6:10 am at the Takoma Park Gazebo.  We'll see you there!  We start dancing at 6:00 am just to be sure...  Here is our official tour plan; look for us!

6:00 am Dawn Dance at the Takoma Park Gazebo (corner of Carroll Ave. and Westmoreland Ave.)

10:30-11:30 Dance at new square in Columbia Heights (Columbia Road and Park Ave. NW – construction allowing)

1:30-2:30 Dance at SunTrust Plaza/BB&T Plaza (Columbia Road and 18th Street NW)

2:30 Join us at our pubstop as we finish bringing in the May with singing and revelry!  Chief Ike's Mambo Room (1725 Columbia Road)

Glen Echo Friday Night Dance has been going for something like 432 years.  We young upstarts will perform a few morris dances to entertain the crowd during the break between sets.  Come contra before and after!  For more details about Friday Night Dance, click on http://www.fridaynightdance.org/

Dancing in the Hallways!  Dancing in the Vestibules!  Joyful morris and sword mayhem will be conducted by five local teams all over the traditional Minifest Site at Takoma Park Middle School.  For more details about the festival, click on
http://ceimd.com/php/public.php?Org=fsgw&ProgramID=11&NoTitle=1

Our annual Alexandria Sword Tour.  

Details are fungible so stay tuned, but the usual plan is we begin at King Street Blues (St. Asaph x King St.) for lunch, followed by a quick brushup on two dances of our choice to help digest said lunch.  (There will have been at least two sword practices during the Fall.)  Then we dance out at the plaza above the central King Street parking lot; outside the Torpedo Factory; inside the Torpedo Factory and then head over to the pub.

During the tour, we will busk for our beer.  In the event we have enough signed up, we will have a fool (can be played by different people at different times).

12 noon: Lunch at King Street Blues; if you miss lunch, please arrive in time for the brushup!

1ish: Brushup in the arcade courtyard bewteen Royal and Pitt just N of King St.

2:30 ish: Dance out on the brick plaza (King St between Royal and Fairfax) above the central parking lot.  Busk!  Flyers!

-- break for shopping, coffee, ice cream for Brad --

3:45 Dance outside Torpedo Factory on the waterfront, weather permitting

4:30 Show Dance inside Torpedo Factory (no busking)

5:30 Adjourn for beer, nibbles and songs at Union Street Pub.  Consider bringing a Plough Monday song if possible (Cutty Wren and the like)

The Foggy Bottom Morris Men, in collaboration with his family, are organizing a celebration to honor Pete Brown and all the memories we have of him.  

Pete has been a longtime member of the Foggy Bottom Morris Men and was a former member of the Swindon Morris Men in Wiltshire, England. As well as being a dancer, Pete, age 54, was an accomplished singer, musician and song-writer, and had a wonderfully dry sense of humor that those who knew him loved so much.

Here are the details:

Sunday, January 3rd
1pm to 4pm

McGinty's Pub (in the upstairs pub)
911 Ellsworth Drive
Silver Spring, MD 20910

Tentative Program:

1-1:45: Dancing by those teams who wish
1:45-2:30: Share memories
2:30-4: Open pub sing

Anybody is welcome to attend.    Please forward this announcement to your teams and to others I may have missed.

McGinty's would like a rough head count by Jan 1st.   If you are planning to come, please Rsvp here:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dDdBczRQYURNZTBFbzNBNGNSMUdGbmc6MA

If you have memories to share, please consider contributing thoughts or pictures to the memorial site his family has set up:
http://www.virtual-memorials.com/main.php?action=view&mem_id=18300&page_no=1

Come if you can, drop by breifly if you'd like.  Bring good cheer; hopefully we will front a side or so; we'll definitely have musos even if (alas) Jim B. can't make it.  RSVP to me by email (see FBMM list for old invite posting).

The Foggy Bottom Morris Men celebrate the winter solstice on Thursday, Dec 17th in Takoma Park.   You can see us at the gazebo and later at the Takoma Park library.

6pm - at the Gazebo on Carroll Avenue
7:30pm - at the Takoma Park library
8:30pm - Solstice party at Bill's house, with lumps of plum pudding

pub crawl with Simon and the K-men

We will do our annual crashing of the MD Renn Faire with Joe and Cyd.

The Rock Creek Morris Women (est. 1979)

Invite you to join us for an ale
In celebration of our 30th anniversary

When:  October 9-11, 2009

What:  Friday night arrivals / social gathering
       Morris tours Saturday and Sunday
       Saturday night feasting, singing, skits, bonfire, etc.

Where:  Quailhill Farm in Brinklow, Maryland

Why:  We’re 30 (but we still look 29)

List of Illustrious Invitees:

Foggy Bottom Morris Men
Ring O’ Bells
Albemarle Morris Men
Toronto f Morris Men
RCMW Alums