theWI Adderbury & District WI – September Members Meeting Thursday 1st September 2016

Dear Members,

Our September WI meeting was great fun as we all enjoyed our evening’s visitors, Sharp and Blunt, Adderbury’s own Ladies Morris. They danced several movements for our benefit both outside The Institute and inside, also featuring a dance in which all members could take part if they wished to. Mostly we all did, filling the space with one very long line of dancers who were helped considerably to follow the steps by our lovely guests. They also sang to us, a very jolly song the tune of which must have been familiar to many – “now we are in clover” for we were singing along with the Ladies. We also heard something of the history of both folklorist collectors and musicians Janet Blunt, who collected Adderbury Morris dances and songs and Cecil Sharp, whose interest in traditional song and dance led him to found the English Folk Dance Society in 1911 and published his work English Folk-Song: Some Conclusions in 1907.