Mucky Mountains Morris

It’s 2024 – a brand new year. What better time to try a new hobby? Have you ever wanted to shake a leg, wave a hanky or brandish a stick? Morris dancing is sociable, it keeps you fit and it keeps our old traditions alive. What’s more, it’s fun.

Who are we?

Mucky Mountains Morris is a morris side based around St Helens in Merseyside. Our dances are mainly in the Cotswold and Border traditions. We enjoy ourselves immensely, dancing at local events, pubs, days of dance and folk gatherings in the North West and beyond. From September to April we have a practice session almost every Thursday night. We celebrated our 30th Anniversary in 2019-20.

If you fancy trying morris dancing, come along and have a go at learning how it’s done!

See our events list for where we are dancing next, our contact page to get in touch, our gallery for some photos, and our non-events list for other stuff.

Performances in 2023

We held our Weekend of Dance in the St Helens area from the 1st to 3rd September 2023, with visiting sides from all over the country. Have a look at our Gallery Page for photographs of this and other events.

Our 2021 Weekend of Dance was our first live performance since December 2019, although we did manage a socially-distanced virtual performance on YouTube in August 2020. We are now dancing out regularly – take a look at our Events page for the current year’s programme. Why not come along and watch us dance? We might invite you to join in with one of our simpler dances.

Our weekly practice sessions are on Thursday evenings – why not come along and join us?

Community and charity

We are always keen to support local community events and charities. See our events list and dancers’ links for some of the causes we’ve supported.

Bus Pass Morris

We now have just about enough retired dancers and musicians to entertain at the occasional midweek daytime event, mainly for charities, community groups and schools.

Confusion

In case you’re unsure of our name, we’re Mucky Mountains Morris, not Mucky Mountain Morris or Mucky Mountains Morris Men!