Beltane at Beltane, the one and only. We will be here before sunrise to make sure it does, indeed, rise. You’re welcome.
Come and join us at the car park immediately below Hay Tor. You won’t miss us.
Beltane do Beltain in style!
Off we trot to Hampshire for our second outing at the incredible Butser Ancient Farm to welcome in the summer with live folk music, reenactor battles, local craftsfolk, and the burning of a 40ft wickerman.
Our first time at this pub but certainly not our first jaunt to ye olde Widecombe! We’ll be joined by Beltane members past and present, see if you can spot any familiar faces amidst the crows
It’s been a while but this pub is one of our favourites! The infinitely welcoming Tally Ho! is having us over for drinks and dancing AGAIN! We’ll be joined by the one and only Gasket Rats, you won’t want to miss this one
Beltane heads to Chippenham Folk Festival for a folking fantastic weekend!
Stay tuned for more details of schedule - until then tickets and info can be found here.
It’s Exeter Morris’ 75th Anniversary and what better way to celebrate than a jolly good knees up in the big city! Join us and 250+ morris dancers from around the South West, from Cotswold and Border, to Appalachian and Rapper
Schedule and info TBC, check back for more details!
We love The Beer Engine and we’re stoked to be heading back there for craic with our mates Otter Morris. If that sounds like your cup of char, you'd better be at the Beer Engine on this particular Thursday.
It’s been a long while since we ventured the winding back roads to sunny Kingsbridge and we are looking forward to frightening the locals and singing some shanties at the brilliant Creeks End. We might be joined by a fellow side for this one, details TBC!
Join us and 20 other sides for a jolly good knees up at the amazing Teignmouth Folk Festival! Check back for more details on the schedule.
This is not one to be missed! Great beers and food, some EXTREMEly loud after-dance singing in the pub and let’s not forget the huge and deliciously flat bit of road we dance on just outside the pub. Ps if you plan on driving through Shaugh Prior that evening - forget it right now.
We’ll be hosted by the amazing Dartmoor Border Morris for an evening of Morris shenanigans.
Check out our double Cross Tree performance from the White Thorn in 2022!
Off we head to the brilliant Tuckers Maltings with Shuffle the Deck Appalachian Dancers from South Brent. Great pub, great dancers, great vibes!
A lovely folk festival up in the Mendips, we had the best time here in 2023 and we’re coming back for round two of awesome Priddy shenanigans! And dance and sing and intimidate small children.
Timings and schedule TBC, in the meantime check out tickets and info here!
How lucky are we?! We get to play at our absolute favouritest pubs this season, including this gem at the top of town in Totnes. We will be spreading our wings and dancing in Rotherfold Square from 8pm as we are of course massive posers and thrive on adulation. So come and adulate us! Then we’ll be moving to The Bay Horse for singing and shanties with The Sea Gals.
See you there!!
This pub is positively made for Morris - just look at all that lovely space. We’ll be joined by the epic Cogs and Wheels - so get down there quicksmart to bag your seat!
It’s our 25th birthday! We’re going to do something, we don’t quite know what that is yet but plans are afoot and details will be released at some point, maybe soon. Stay tuned!
At least a few of us Beltaners have turned up bright-eyed and bushy-tailed to A Church House Inn in the greater Devon area, only to be flummoxed at the lack of their corvid brethren making a menace of themselves. And especially as the Church House Inn at Stokeinteignhead is such a lovely pub, you really don’t want to not be there! Come and see us dance with our hosts Dartington Morris and we’ll see you in the pub afterwards.
And guess what! We’ll be doing ANOTHER Church House Inn next week…so….yeah, don’t make the same mistake as us!
Off we head to one of our regular haunts, we love the beers and vibes here. This time we’ll be dancing with the awesome Lodestone Border Morris!
Heading back to one of our favourite festivals in Escot Park. We're dancing all 3 days all over the place by day, and launching ourselves into the festival by night. Not to be missed!
Our first time venturing to this awesome brewery on the river, we’ll be joined by our mates Catseye Morris so expect all types of Morrisy shenanigans and sessions!
The one and only. This is a firm Beltane favourite and a FREE festival of folk, dance, trains and beer! I mean really. In the beautiful Oxfordshire town of Wallingford. There's so much going on, from workshops to ceilidhs and stuff for kids. We love it and you will too.
Always such an incredible night at this beautiful pub - the hospitality is top notch! Join us for fire, singing, and chips!
Beltane has danced the dark Morris at the Dark Gathering many times, and here we are again. The Dark Gathering at Boscastle is a truly one of a kind event. On or close to Samhain or All Hallow’s eve, we dance and sing at the time that the veil between worlds as it its flimsiest.
This event became so popular over the years that crowd control has had to be introduced. If you wish to attend, please find the Dark Gathering website or facebook page for information, as it is likely that tickets will need to be purchased in advance - not from us - from the event organisers.
It’s a special occasion, and after a day of dance and song, there’s usually a great session in the pub afterwards; if they’ll have us, that is!
https://thedarkgathering.co.uk/
Come and join us at this fantastic local event. We are always honoured to be asked to join Grimspound Morris at their annual event. Music, dance, a glorious Green Man, a mummers play, craft vendors, and good times.
Full details TBC - check back here later
A regular in ye olde Beltane diary is an appearance at the Lustleigh Wassail!
Bring toasted bread to stick on branches and your smallest kids to put into trees!
Join us outside The Cleave Inn at 7:45 for our performance and then into the orchard for the blessing of the apple trees.
Gather with Beltane Border before the solstice, to dance in the darkest days of winter.
What have we here then?! A truly magnificent Morris merge? A diabolical dancing display? A folking fabulous fun time?
All of those things and more!
Celebrate the turning of the seasons with us this equinox as we rep the dark side and the inimitable BOSS MORRIS bring the light.
Always such an incredible night at this beautiful pub - the hospitality is top notch! Join us for our last out of the season as we dance the night away with our friends Shumba Arts
Off we head to Totnes for the cunningly named Dartington Day of Dance, put together by our friends Dartington Morris.
10:30 - 11:15 Rotherfold Square with Belles of London City, Thaxted, and Dartington Morris
11:30 - 12:15 Rotherfold Square with Lodestone and Plymouth Clog
1:30 - 2:15 St Mary’s Church with Trigg
2:30 - 3:15 Plains Waterside Bistro with Newton Bushel, Plymouth Clogg, and Trigg
3:30 - 4:15 Plains Dartmouth Inn with Lodestone, Old Town Twelves, and Tywardreath
Off we head to The Bridge in Topsham to dance with not one, but TWO amazing sides. Buy two get one free in this epic dance off with Otter and Wild Moon Morris. This will be an after party worth hanging around for!
Lush pub, lush garden, lush cider - plus we’ll be dancing with Newton Bushell? Sounds like the event highlight of the summer
While dancing in the blazing sunshine at Beautiful Days last year, we were presented with a laminated invitation to the amazing Saddleworth Rushcart in 2025. How could we possibly say no to that? We’ll be the first border side to have danced at this prestigious event, so we are very excited to dust off our passports for the long trek oop north!
More details to follow…
Off we head to one of our regular haunts, we love the beers and vibes here. This time we’ll be dancing with the awesome Lodestone Border Morris!
Always a highlight in the Beltane calendar, join us at one of the moor’s best kept secrets!
Heading back to Sidmouth this year for a cheeky catch up with our mates Boggarts Breakfast and Molly No Mates - watch us as we try to keep it together in the company of these Morris legends! Exact location TBC, but you’ll no doubt hear us as you wander along the promenade
That’s right folks, you can catch us at the legendary Warwick Folk Festival this year!
There is always a hearty welcome at the Bay Horse and many a great session has been had here, so join us at Rotherfold Square before we head to the Bay Horse for tankard swilling and general uproarious shenanigans
Join us for a jolly good knees up at the Ferry Boat Inn, last one in the sea buys the first round!
A top brewery in a top location with a top side! Topsham Brewery is where it’s at this week, join us and our friends Great Western Morris for your shot of morris shenanigans this week!
The east calls us again this week and with good reason - a seaside pub AND the legendary Isambard’s Gasket Rats? Race you there…
Come and check out this amazing pub, serving lots of lovely beers and featuring some piratey types in fishnets arrrggghh. We’ll be dancing here with our mates Dartington Morris - join us for beers and a jolly good sing song
Keeping it local this week with a spot at Things Happen Here in Dartington alongside new Plymouth-based side Old Town Twelves
We’re off to Wimborne FF! Join us a and a whole other bunch of raggedy Morris types for a weekend of folk, dance and Morrisy mayhem. Times TBC
For more details and an updated schedule of artists and events please see event website.
Join us on one of our rare ventures west - with none other than the epic Catseye!
We are very excited to be a part of this epic new festival celebrating the power of place! And what a stonking line up it is - they’ve got Guy Shrubsole, Lewis Winks, Lisa Schneidau, Field System and so many more epic thinkers and creatives. Kicking off at 6pm at Ashburton Arts Centre
We love the Cornwood Inn, and who better to dance with at this lush Dartmoor pub than our mates Dartmoor Border Morris?! Good craic all round
We’re thrilled to be part of the 8th annual Green Man festival in Bradford-on-Avon this year. Traditional music, dance and folk stuff throughout town, with loads of live music scattered, and of course the making and unveiling of the Green Man. Come and watch us and 600(?!) other dance and music sides and groups.
Beltane do Beltain in style!
Off we trot to Hampshire for our second outing at Butser Ancient Farm to welcome in the summer with live folk music, reenactor battles, local craftsfolk, and the burning of a 40ft wickerman.
Beltane at Beltane, the one and only. We will be here before sunrise to make sure it does, indeed, rise. You’re welcome.
Come and join us at the car park immediately below Hay Tor. You won’t miss us.
After a ruddy good knees up at the 2024 event, we are over the moon to be going back to Stoke Gabriel for our second wassail of the year! Times TBC
There will be singing, offerings to the Spirit of the Trees, music, food, and a lantern parade. And of course, MORRIS..... that's where we come in! Loudly.
The festivities take place in the surroundings of Church Walk in the heart of the village and the Wassail ceremony will take place in the community orchard.
This was a ticketed event last year - check back for details nearer the time.
Friends of Stoke Gabriel School (FOSS), a charity, organises the event with a BBQ. Local food and drink suppliers will be providing refreshments including Hunts Cider.
A regular in ye olde Beltane diary is an appearance at the Lustleigh Wassail!
Bring toasted bread to stick on branches and your smallest kids to put into trees!
Join us outside The Cleave Inn at 7:45 for our performance and then into the orchard for the blessing of the apple trees.
If that’s not enough wassailing for you, then my friend, you are in luck. We will also be at the Stoke Gabriel Wassail on Saturday 18th January.
Holy heck! Did you see that? We are going to MONTOL!
We will be at the epic Montol Festival in Penzance on Saturday 21st December!
FIND US HERE 👇
🔥Dancing 2 pm - 3.30 pm at the London Inn
🔥6 pm parade participation, start at Greenmarket
🔥Dancing 7.15 pm at Greenmarket
🔥Dancing 8.15 pm at the Global Ale House
🔥9.30 pm parade participation, starting at Greenmarket to the seafront
🔥Last performance approx 10.15 pm
See map below for locations.
SATURDAY 21 DECEMBER 2024 WITH PROCESSIONS, GUISE GUILDS AND MASKS...
Suitable for: Families before dark and adults after dark.
Read here more about what to expect: https://montol.org/
We love a bit of Totters Market at Christmas time! Come and marvel at us slipping and sliding on the wet paving slabs as you sip on glühwein and bag yourself some lovely festive bargains. We’re usually up the top end near The Bull, dancing like maniacs before heading to The Bayhorse for shandies and shanties.
