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The Minster Strays were formed in 2003 as a mixed side, based amidst the Howardian Hills between York and Pickering. Wearing green, burgundy and gold waistcoats, and colourful tatters, we perform the dances of Old England as well as our own unique creations in traditional style.
Our repertoire includes elegant dances from the Cotswolds with complex sequences of galleys and capers, together with wild, raucous displays from the Welsh borders.
Ryedale Folk Museum 2022
Dancing "Nutting Girl" 2022
Tour to Normandy 2018
We've danced at festivals, fairs, stately homes, weddings and, of course, pubs all around the county and beyond.
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May Day Dawn 2019
The Morris Dance has been part of English life for at least six hundred years, and may be much older. The earliest records date from the Court Masques of Henry VII in the 1500s. From there it spread into popular entertainment; first in large houses and then to village celebrations where it became associated with Church Ales and other seasonal festivities. Before the fifteenth century – who knows?
The Strays rock at Countryfile, Castle Howard, August 2019
Ian makes a spectacle of himself in Malton...
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The Minster Strays at the International Folk Festival in Prague, 2013
Minster Strays outside their "Botel"
The team with their charming tour guide!
30 degrees plus temperatures didn't loosen our waistcoats...
Together with Domesday Morris, we out-danced and out-drank fierce competition from Germany and France.
Ahoy Praho!
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Minster Strays in Prague...
30 degrees plus temperatures didn't loosen our waistcoats...
Together with Domesday Morris, we out-danced and out-drank fierce competition from Germany and France.
Ahoy Praho!
See more photos of the
Minster Strays in Prague...
Ebor Vox
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