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Manchester Evening News
|February 13, 2025
TOWN SET TO WELCOME 1,000 TRADITIONAL DANCERS FOR RECORD-BREAKING STREET FESTIVAL THIS SPRING
EXPECT plenty of bells, sticks and folk music in Stockport this spring as the town prepares to host more than 1,000 Morris dancers as part of a huge one-day celebration.
Taking place on Saturday, 26 April, the town centre will be transformed into a stage for more than 60 Morris dancing groups for the Joint Morris Organisation's National Day of Dance, filling the streets with rhythmic stepping, clashing sticks and swirling ribbons.
Hosted by Adlington Morris Men on behalf of the Morris Ring and funded by Totally Stockport BID with support from Stockport Council and Merseyway, the event promises to be the 'biggest, boldest and most bell-clanging gathering' the North West has ever seen - and possibly a record-breaking celebration of Morris and folk dance in the UK.
This story is from the February 13, 2025 edition of Manchester Evening News.
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