Have Maypole Will Travel

Have Maypole Will Travel We provide the dance tuition, live music and the maypole, you provide the space and the audience!

Based near Morpeth, Northumberland in the North East of England, we are a small collective that offer maypole and heritage dance workshops from late Medieval to Georgian, tailored to suit a wide variety of abilities. Maypole Workshops - great for outdoor family events where young children and adults alike can participate. It's a very relaxed atmosphere with the focus on everyone learning some bas

ic dances and having fun. We usually start off with some very easy Tudor circle dances and then move on to some simple maypole dances. Heritage Dance Workshops - Two hour or longer in-depth workshops for a pre-booked amount of people. The dances include historically recorded dances from manuscripts and books dating from the late renaissance to the present day and are more complex, so the preferred age range is older children to adults. We like to concentrate on giving people a flavour of the period music and the dances that go with them rather than becoming overly concerned with detail, and are quite happy to do dances from a mixture of periods within the same workshop, including modern barn dances.

We've had a lovely weekend at the Morpeth Northumbrian Gathering, starting with the parade...
13/04/2026

We've had a lovely weekend at the Morpeth Northumbrian Gathering, starting with the parade...

I'm getting excited about this...
18/03/2026

I'm getting excited about this...

For anyone who came to either my Regency or Maypole workshops here are a list of useful resources:Regency resourceshttps...
02/03/2026

For anyone who came to either my Regency or Maypole workshops here are a list of useful resources:
Regency resources
https://www.regencydances.org/index.php
Colin Hume’s website
https://colinhume.com/
The Historical Dance Society publishes a number of useful books and CDs including Dances from Jane Austen by Anne Daye which includes information on steps
https://historicaldance.org.uk/shop
Talk by Anne Daye on a female dancing master in the Regency era
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkipeFzeKAI
Talk by Richard Powers on the history of calling
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7i7W2zqjCQ
Richard Powers website
https://www.richardpowers.com/

Maypole resources
Mike Ruff’s maypole site
https://the-maypole-manual.co.uk/

Commercial slot together maypole
https://www.edaids.com/s83-maypole

Full instructions on a range of dances
https://apricotfolk.co.uk/Maypole%20Dancing%20-%20LaunchPage.html

Wonderful weekend at IVFDF 2026. One of the best groups ever for a maypole workshop and the sun even shone!
02/03/2026

Wonderful weekend at IVFDF 2026. One of the best groups ever for a maypole workshop and the sun even shone!

Despite the ice last week we had a fab time sharing our Regency dances with Holy Saviour Tynemouth's lovely ladies' grou...
14/01/2026

Despite the ice last week we had a fab time sharing our Regency dances with Holy Saviour Tynemouth's lovely ladies' group.

down in London having a brilliant day with the Historical Dance Society.
26/11/2025

down in London having a brilliant day with the Historical Dance Society.

Here's the event at the Lit and Phil
16/11/2025

Here's the event at the Lit and Phil

Wednesday 3rd December | 2 pm – 4pm. As part […]

Getting ready for two special gigs, Regency dancing at the Lit and Phil and then dancing at Jesmond's Jane Austen festiv...
16/11/2025

Getting ready for two special gigs, Regency dancing at the Lit and Phil and then dancing at Jesmond's Jane Austen festival.

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