Boss Morris on Rodborough Common
Folk on Foot
Matthew Bannister
4.8 • 526 Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Dressed in costumes fashioned from vintage tea towels, the dancers of Boss Morris take us to Rodborough Common near their base in Stroud to walk and dance, accompanied by musicians Rob Harbron, Miranda Rutter and Sam Sweeney. This is where Boss go to mark the different seasons of the year. They introduce us to their own increasingly popular ritual “Finger In The Spring”, reflect on their distinctive aesthetic, explain their love of the ancient dances and tell how they are taking Morris to previously unimaginable places and audiences.
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| 1:04.0 | So thank you and enjoy the walk. |
| 1:17.4 | I'm standing in a pub garden, looking across a glorious valley to a honey stone church in a village. |
| 1:23.2 | We're just outside Stroud in Gloucestershire. |
| 1:26.4 | And we've come here to meet Boss Morris. |
| 1:29.2 | They are the wonderful all-female Morris dancing side |
| 1:32.6 | who welcomed me to Folk East when I just walked 186 miles in two weeks. |
| 1:38.7 | I met them again in Hackney at a Beltane event in the Earth Theatre. |
| 1:43.5 | They pop up everywhere and you might say, |
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