Brian Kelly

Nice to see some hankie as well as stick dancing - with the rapper sword dancers acknowledging the applause!

No dancing for me - I'm watching the football on the TV! 1-1 at halh-time

Merry Christmas from the Morris Federation - and feel free to share with those who don't (yet) know about the fun of morris dancing!

#MorrisDancing #CotswoldMorris #BorderMorris #GarlandMorris #NorthwestMorris #RapperSwordDance #ClogStepDance

YouTube video by Haymarket Rapper Haymarket Rapper year 11 [2024]

Haymarket Rapper's 11th year of dancing, 2024, featured trips to Chesterfield (trip 18, 16-18 Feb) & Chelmsford (trip 19, 24-26 Nov 2024).

We dances at 8 pubs in Chesterfield and 10 dances at 9 pubs in Chelmsford

#HaymarketRapper #RapperSwordDancing #RapperSwordDance

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YouTube video by Haymarket Rapper Haymarket Rapper year 10 [2023]

Haymarket Rapper's tenth year, 2023, saw a welcome return of trips away and dancing!

We had trips to York (trip no. 16 on 27-29 Jan 2023 - 9 dances at 8 pubs) and Sheffield (trip no. 17 on 24-26 Nov 2023 - 10 pubs).

#HaymarketRapper #RapperSwordDancing #RapperSwordDance

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YouTube video by Haymarket Rapper Haymarket Rapper year 09 [2022]

During Haymarket Rapper's ninth year, 2022, there were no trips away and no dancing due to COVID - instead we had regular Zoom chats about old times and started planning - but a weekend to Leicester didn't take place.

#HaymarketRapper #RapperSwordDancing #rappersworddance
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YouTube video by Haymarket Rapper Haymarket Rapper year 08 [2021]

During Haymarket Rapper's eighth year, 2021, there were no trips away and no dancing due to COVID - instead we had regular Zoom chats.

Do you remember Zoom chats? Did you have plans on ways of getting everyone engaged?

#HaymarketRapper #RapperSwordDancing #RapperSwordDance
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YouTube video by Haymarket Rapper Haymarket Rapper year 08 [2021]

During Haymarket Rapper's eighth year, 2021, there were no trips away and no dancing due to COVID - instead we had regular Zoom chats.

Do you remember Zoom chats? Did you have plans on ways of getting everyone engaged?

#HaymarketRapper #RapperSwordDancing #RapperSwordDance
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YouTube video by Haymarket Rapper Haymarket Rapper year 07 [2020]

Haymarket Rapper's seventh year of dancing (2020) featured just one trip: Shrewsbury (trip no. 15 on 21-23 Feb 2020).

Due to the arrival of COVID shortly after the trip there was no more dancing throughout the year.

#haymarketrapper #RapperSwordDancing #RapperSwordDance

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YouTube video by Haymarket Rapper Haymarket Rapper year 06 [2019]

Haymarket Rapper's sixth dancing weekend took the team to Derby (our second visit to Derby was trip no. 12, 18-20 Jan 2019) followed by Newcastle (trip no. 13, 28-30 Jun 2019) and Hull (trip no. 14, 8-10 Nov 2019).

#haymarketrapper #RapperSwordDancing #RapperSwordDance

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YouTube video by Haymarket Rapper Haymarket Rapper year 05 [2018]

Haymarket Rapper's fifth year [2018] featured trips to the northwest: Manchester [trip 10, 16-18 Feb 2018] and Liverpool [trip 11, 14-16 Sep 2018].

Dancing: 12 pubs in Manchester / 12 pubs & 1 coffee shop in Liverpool.

#HaymarketRapper #RapperSwordDancing #RapperSwordDance

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Love this! What do others think?

YouTube video by Haymarket Rapper Haymarket Rapper year 04 [2017]

Haymarket Rapper's fourth year of dancing, 2017, featured trips to:

o Nottingham (trip no. 7 on 27 Feb-1 Mar 2017)
o Leeds-Skipton (trip no. 8 on 19-21 May 2017)
o Bath (trip no. 9 on 13-15 Nov 2017)

On this trip we managed to take video

#HaymarketRapper #RapperSwordDance

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Anyone suggest a good prompt to create a more realist image of 5 rapper sword dancers with a Tommy in a black suit and wearing a black top hat?!

(Hmm, maybe on 1 April a rapper side should dance wearing this kit and announce "The first AI-generated rapper sword dance"?!)

YouTube video by Haymarket Rapper Haymarket Rapper year 03 [2016]

Haymarket Rapper's third year of dancing, 2016, featured trips to Sheffield [trip 5 from 8-10 May 2016] and Leeds [trip from 14-16 Oct 2016]

For statisticians: 7 dances at 6 pubs in Sheffield &11 dances at 10 pubs in Leeds

Pub of the Sheffield weekend was The Shakespeare

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YouTube video by Haymarket Rapper Haymarket Rapper year 02 [2015]

After a minimalist launch (5 dancers, 1 musician) in 2014 by 2015 Haymarket Rapper numbers had grown and we had 3 trips in the year: Derby, York & Bristol

Can we summarise 3 trips & 37 dances in a minute? We gave it a go: 59 seconds

#HaymarketRapper #RapperSwordDance
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YouTube video by Haymarket Rapper Haymarket Rapper year 1 [2014]

Haymarket Rapper made their debut in 2014 & celebrated 10 years during 2024. This clip features our first trip when we made our debut dancing in 8 Birmingham pubs.

Notice a hardly-moving person in foreground while we dance very fast!

#HaymarketRapper #RapperSwordDance
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YouTube video by Haymarket Rapper Haymarket Rapper: the early years

Haymarket Rapper made their debut in 2014 and celebrated 10 years during 2024 - although we started dancing in the 1970s and 80s. We've made a series of short videos for each year of dancing (or Zoom chats during COVID!) Here's how we started. #HaymarketRapper #RapperSwordDance

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Bluesky Roast summarises one's use of service. For me:

Morris Dancing: Brian’s poses the question of how best to entice new members—spoiler alert, it’s all about the videos!

Outreach Strategies: He plays the part of the digital Morris dance ambassador, urging others to leap onto the platform!

When I'm 100 I'll be able to say "I was there when @andytattersall.bsky.social coined the 'Bloosh' term!"

My reply was exactly Bluesky's maximum length for a reply!

"When tweets were limited to 140 chars a tweet that used the exact maximum length was referred to as a "twoosh." Term is derived from the idea of achieving perfection similar to the "swoosh" sound of a basketball perfectly hitting the net. Term fell out of use when character limit increased to 280"

Over 7 mins of #morrisdancing featuring #RumburghMorris with 369 #morrisdancers (some may have been from other #morrissides!)

What's the best way to encourage people to join a Morris side? Post a short video of your side dancing - which also had details of how to find Morris sides across the country. Great stuff #WildMoonMorris!

I think this is a great video to have on your Bluesky account! Different from normal dance videos

How the early adopters in the morris community are using Bluesky (and how we can discuss emerging best practices).

Comments welcome

My list of #MorrisFed sides on Bluesky - so we can see how it is being used by morris, sword and related groups.

#MorrisDance #MorrisDancing #RapperSword #RapperSwordDancing
go.bsky.app/Gh3qNUe

For those morris, sword and similar dance sides who still use Facebook, the Digital For Dance Teams group is open to all.
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Recently Haymarket Rapper celebrated its 10th anniversary. We thought we'd make a documentary featuring clips showing 10 years of #rappersworddancing - but we had a technical glitch and the tape got chewed up.
#HaymarketRapper #RapperSwordDance

Added some hashtags to my profile. Hmm, wonder if dance sides would benefit from adding their side's hashtag, hashtag for their dance style and hashtag for the Morris organisation they belong to. #RapperSwordDance #MorrisFed #HaymarketRapper