Countryfile Live @ Blenheim Palace

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We’re really looking forward to returning to Countryfile Live this year! It’s always a highlight of our calendar and we’ll be performing on all four days, so we hope to see lots of you there!

1st-4th August at Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire – visit the official website here

We’ll be doing 4 or 5 dance sessions each day, including an early afternoon showcase performance of a variety of traditional dance styles, plus there’ll be loads of opportunities for you to join in with maypole and country dancing. Each maypole session starts with a short display from the mAy team, before we invite the public to join in with dances around the mega Countryfile Live maypole!

Check out the official timetable for our performance times, or follow us on twitter @themayteamdance for daily updates.

Our Countryfile Live top tips:

  1. Arrive early to beat the traffic!
  2. Don’t miss the dog and duck show (a mAy team favourite).
  3. Bring a reusable water bottle – there are free water refill points dotted around the site and if it’s a hot day you’ll need them!
  4. Enjoy a picnic lunch on the Village Green while you watch our traditional dance showcase – we’re performing at 1.15pm on Thursday, and 12.45pm on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
  5. Don’t forget to say hi to Pudsey at the Children In Need tent – you might also find him dancing round the maypole with us!

(These are not our 2019 performance times! Photo from 2017)

Spring Live 2019

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We had a fun-filled couple of days at the South Of England Showground last month, running Maypole and Sussex country dance sessions for visitors to Spring Live. It was a little chillier than last year but fortunately the rain held off and we were joined by lots of keen dancers of all ages! When not performing, the team also enjoyed visiting the rest of the showground – whether this was to check out the food trucks, buy new plants or admire the alpacas on display!

The beginnings of summer…

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We started our 2019 season at The Swiss Garden on 28th April as part of the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party at the Swiss Garden, Biggleswade. We were joined by Alice and the Mad Hatter (photos may follow!). The event manager’s comment was “as always a crowd-puller and you’re so good at not getting everyone tied up in knots!”
 
Now we’re preparing for our busiest weekend of the year, appearing at the Geffrye Museum tomorrow (4th May) and Spring Live at the South of England Showground on Sunday and Monday (5th & 6th May). Later in May we’ll be appearing at Fulham Palace, and then in August the two Countryfile Live events (a regular feature of our summer for a few years now) at Blenheim Palace in (Oxfordshire) and Castle Howard (Yorkshire).

Our new website

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Thanks for visiting our new site. We’ll be adding more archive content over the coming days, and we’ve got a busy summer of events coming up so watch this space for photos and tales from our 2019 displays!

A flurry of events for May Day

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A busy time for the mAy team; we went to Butser Ancient Farm and met the Wickerman on the 29th April, returned to the Swiss Garden on the 30th April and Bath University on the 6th May. What an enjoyable time we all had! Photos from these events can be found in the Gallery.

Thanks to the Phabulous PHAMS we had the mAy Team sashes for the first time. Badges and more costume to come.

End Of Season

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Following the outstanding successes of our events at the Swiss Garden and Countryfile Live, The mAy team already looks forward to returning to those events next year. No doubt there will be many other enquiries.

To be able to do all of these we may need more members and are likely to be holding a workshop day in the spring. If you are a musician or dancer and would like to be involved, please let us know.

At the moment most of our events are in the South East and South Midlands.