Don Church

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Preferred email

morrisman@tinyworld.co.uk

Address

27, Salisbury Street, TAUNTON, Somerset, TA2 6NA United Kingdom

Teams

Taunton Deane Morris Men North Curry Mummers

Traditions

Cotswold: currently Adderbury and Fieldtown. Have danced Badby, Bledington, Bucknell, and Headington in the past. (TDMM stick to two traditions, dance them intensively for a few years, then learn something new). Border: usual suspects, Upton-on-Severn, etc, plus some we made up ourselves: Square and Compass, Bradford on Tone.

Morris instruments

Anything percussive - possess dumbek (drum) and spoons, but can also play tables, beer crates etc. Circular tables give best bass notes (!).

Beer preference

Much prefer cider; more commercial producers are Hecks in Street (near Glastonbury), who do a good selection, as do Sheppys just up the road in Bradford on Tone. Plus you can get home made stuff from some of the farms (Black Toad is the current favourite).

Anything else that needs to be said

I sing as well. Within TDMM I seem to specialise in the ruder stuff (Cuckoo's Nest etc), but I have been known to sing the odd ballad or shanty. Have been locked in a pub and promised free beer and a lift home provided myself and Mike Highfield (also TDMM), a superb whistle/flute player, stayed and played/sang on. (Went home very late and slightly wobbly).