Crook Morris
Crook Morris based in Kendal, are proud of their unique traditional heritage with a repertoire including Cotswold Morris, Rapper dances and mumming plays as well as their own dances – which include “Knickers in the Hedgerow” which has been taken up by several other dance sides.

Eccleston Heritage Clog
Eccleston Heritage Clog are a community group promoting and developing clog dance as a local tradition.  Led by Alex Fisher the dance team perform a variety of clog dance styles & traditions – from Lakeland Hornpipes, Competition Hornpipes & Waltzes to Street Clog Steps, Lancashire Irish steps & Music Hall Ragtime steps.

Flag & Bone Gang
Flag & Bone Gang are based in Harrogate, and are a team that revives a largely forgotten tradition from the East Riding labourers. Some of the dancers waved flags whilst others rattled “nick-nack” bones from which comes the team’s name. they are a wild looking bunch on the street – you won’t miss them in town!

Furness Clog
Furness Clog are our local dance side with clog stepping routines from the north of England accompanied by mandolin and flute. They have now been established for over 40 years.

Furness Morris
What a pleasure it is for Furness Morris to once again be at our local Folk Festival. Following some lean times with few dancers, we are now back with some enthusiastic new members, and we are progressing to being at the forefront of Morris dancing locally. We dance mainly Cotswold, with a little Border, and a Longsword dance. We are based here in Ulverston and formed in 1963.

Hadrian Clog
Hadrian Clog based in the Tyne Valley, perform clog and hard shoe dances from the North East of England and beyond. A team full of colour, enthusiasm and fun.

Jensquared
Jensquared (all one word, all lower case) are a percussive step dance and fiddle duo who met playing and dancing together in Gaorsach Rapper and Step over 15 years ago.  Jen Hobson is a step dancer and teacher originally from Prestatyn, North Wales, now based in Aberdeenshire – she has a diverse and unique dance style that combines influences including English clog, Scottish and Cape Breton step dancing, and any other shiny things her magpie-mind likes the look of!   Jen Ord is a singer/choir leader/musician originally from Ulverston, now based in South Wales – as a dance musician she has played for Morris, Rapper, Clog, Ceilidh, and every other trad dance form that will have her, her fiddle style being characterised by a driving danceability! The pair share a firm belief that, when it comes to percussive dance, feet and fiddle are equal instruments in a collaborative form, which makes them the perfect match!

Pateley Longsword Dancers
Pateley Longsword Dancers were formed in 2004 and based in North Yorkshire. Their longsword dances are devised by themselves and bring a vitality and freshness to the tradition. They intersperse the longsword with other dances such as a Basque dance or a Border Morris dance. Yorkshire Long Sword dancing is a form of English ritual hilt-and-point sword dance from at least the 15th century.

Perree Bane
Perree Bane are a Manx traditional dance, music and song group based in Ballasalla in the South of the Isle of Man. Formed in 1982, the group has around fifty members of all ages with a strong children’s section who also perform as a group in their own right. The name ‘Perree Bane’ is Manx Gaelic for ‘White Jacket’, which the men wear along with their Loaghtan wool trousers. The ladies’ costume is a woollen skirt with a 19th Century Juan y Cleary weave, white blouse and red ‘begoon rooie’

fitted jacket. The aim of the group is to keep alive and to some extent extend the

repertoire of traditional Manx dances. Perree Bane performs regularly at events around the Isle of Man and also at festivals and competitions further afield, such as Wales, Brittany, Germany  and Cornwall