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Dancing at Dawn on May 1st 2025 in Totnes Castle

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Dartington Morris, May Day 2024

Just as the sun is rising on Thursday 1st May 2025 at about 5:40am, Dartington Morris will dance at Totnes Castle (with the permission of English Heritage). 

We look forward to welcoming visitors to join us, as we have done for the past few years, with many a brave soul getting up and out before dawn. 

We will sing May Day songs and performed a number of dances in the Cotswold tradition, while we welcome our audience with warm, spicy apple juice and fruity cake.

We dance at dawn on May Day each year to mark the beginning of our summer dance programme, in common with a number of Morris dance teams elsewhere in the UK and several other countries such as Canada, USA, Australia, Denmark and the Netherlands.

Come and join us and say hello - it's free and we'd love to see you!

May Day marks the first 'summer' outing for us and we continue with weekly performances, usually on a Friday evening, all the way to September. Please check our calendar for full details and do come along to watch - you're sure of an enjoyable Friday evening out at a delightful pub somewhere in South Devon!

For further details, please contact the Bagman.

Event calendar

2026
Date Title
Sat 18 Apr King John weekend
Fri 1 May 5:30am May Day morning, Totnes Castle
Fri 1 May 7:30pm May Day evening, Harberton
Fri 8 May 7:30pm Totnes Town Tour
Sat 16 May Glory of the West DoD
Fri 22 May 7:30pm Dolphin Inn, Newton Ferrers
Sat 30 May Exeter Morris Day of Dance
Fri 5 Jun 8:00pm Monks retreat, Broadhempston
Fri 12 Jun 8:00pm Union Inn, Denbury
Sat 20 Jun Teignmouth Folk Festival
Sat 4 Jul Ilfracombe weekend of dance
Fri 10 Jul 8:00pm Dartmouth town tour
Sat 18 Jul 10:30am Brutus Celebration Day, Totnes
Fri 24 Jul 8:00pm Church House Inn, Holne
Sat 1 Aug 11:00am Sidmouth Folk Festival
Thu 6 Aug 7:30pm Stokeinteignhead with Beltane
Fri 14 Aug 7:30pm Ivybridge Brewery tap room
Wed 19 Aug 7:30pm Pack Horse Inn, South Brent with Plymouth Morris
Sat 22 Aug 2:00pm Torre Abbey Summer Fayre
Fri 28 Aug 7:30pm Salcombe town tour
Sat 5 Sep Dartmoor Border Morris 25th birthday day of dance
Sat 12 Sep 10:30am Dartington Day of Dance
Sat 19 Sep 11:00pm Totnes Heritage Day
Sun 20 Sep Buckfastleigh Orchard Millennium Green event
Sun 4 Oct 1:00pm Morris Recruiting Workshop
Sat 14 Nov Dartington Autumn Ale
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