Great! – the torrential rain fell elsewhere and we danced, avoiding the puddles with the aptly named (for this balmy summer’s evening at least!) Waters Green Morris from Macclesfield. Thanks to Barbara and Graham of The Church House for letting us dance outside and the die hard audience – we even ‘persuaded’ some of you to join in! Nice pint of Robinsons too!!

Arrived bright and breezy at The Gresley Arms first Folk and Ale festival and it was breezy on top of the world there. We had a small but appreciative audience who stood in the gale force wind to watch the doggies dance. We met and listened to some talented folk – all in all a great day out!

We just got back from a great dance out at The Red Bull. It was a beautiful evening; we danced by the lock, under a huge blossom laden tree, partaking of Robinson’s best! Well done to our newest dancers – dancing on uneven grass with the canal a few steps away is a bit different than the comfort of our practice hall! Thanks to all who watched, it looked like you were enjoying it? Pity The Boyz from the Boat had passed through earlier in the day and decided not to stop and join us!!

Just updated the calendar with a dance out for April. A group of dancers and musicians from Sussex and Kent have a week together on a narrow boat, stopping off at various pubs on their journey. They are planning to be at The Red Bull on April 6th, so we are going along for some music and dancing – come and join us, especially now the nights are drawing out!

We are busy getting our calendar of events organised for 2011 and the great news is – you will be able to see more of us locally! Check out our calendar, it is being updated regularly.

We had a great start to 2011 when our new website was launched and we escaped the snow when we celebrated Plough Monday at the Traveller’s Rest in Stanley.

Plough Monday is the traditional day of dance for Molly dancers, when the out of work Plough boys who had managed to get through the winter, supplementing their none existent income by dancing and demanding money, took the Plough into the Church to be blessed ready for the work year ahead.

As none of our gang are farmers or even out of work plough boys, we started our own Plough Monday tradition a few years ago of dancing out at a local pub, having a meal afterwards and maybe a celebratory drink or two… This is now a Black Dog Molly tradition we will keep alive! However, if there’s anyone with an old, out of work Plough, we can always extend our current tradition to include it!

The Boss