Greater Boston Ritual Dance & Drama
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Local Ritual Dance & Drama
- Sean Smith's A Gallery of Morris and Sword Events in Boston
- Wedding Mummers Plays in the Cambridge-Somerville Tradition
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Music for Ritual Dance & Drama
- The Morris Ring's site for A Handbook of Morris Dances, by Lionel Bacon: the Dances and Tunes: A site meant to contain abc-notation renderings of all the music contained in Bacon, presented as it appeared in Bacon.
- Steve Allen's An ABC Library of Morris Tunes.
- Concertina.net's ABC Convert-A-Matic: Paste abc notation into the box, press the button, and the site generates sheet music or a midi file.
- Lester Bailey's Morris Tune Recordings: Freely downloadable sound files from Lester's CD of Grand Union Morris Tunes (the CD is no longer available).
Other Ritual Dance & Drama
- Tony Barrand's Digital Video Research Archive of Morris, Sword, and Clog Dancing at Boston University
- The American Morris Newsletter: The online newsletter of North American morris and sword dancing.
- The Morris Dancing Discussion List: An unmoderated listserv-based mailing list devoted to discussions, debates, and rants on all things morris and morris-related.
- Tom Keays' Wikimoresca.
- Rich Holmes' Morris Dancing Wiki: A user-editable resource for all things morris. Includes Morris Teams Directory, Historical Morris Teams Directory, Other Morris Related Sites Directory, Pre-1980s Morris in North America, and notes on different morris styles and dances.
- John Maher's Mainly Morris Dancing: A compilation of links to all known morris-related web sites.
- Phil Preen's The Morris Dancer's WebRing.
- Yahoo Morris Group.
- LiveJournal Morris Dancing Community: A public blog for LiveJournal members. Non LivJournal members can read it.
- Jeff Bigler's Morris & Sword Dance Side Contact Information: Copied and reformatted from Jeff Bigler's "Alphabetic List of Morris and Sword Sides", which was last updated in 2003.
Local Organizations
- CDS Boston Centre
- Country Dance and Song Society
- Folk Arts Center of New England
- New England Folk Festival Association
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