Traditional folk music, dance and customs - Harrogate, North Yorkshire - Chas Marshall's Website

Publications and Articles

• The Return of the Blue Stots by Stuart Rankin - Tykes News Autumn 1982
• The Return of the Blue Stots - a slightly modified version of the Tykes News article - Morris Matters Volume 22 Number 2
• Return of the Blue Stots (An Aspect of Traditional Drama in Yorkshire) with co-author Stuart Rankin - a 56 page booklet published in Winter 2003 by Dockside Studio. For an independent review - click here. The first edition was limited to 100 copies but now out of print and is no longer available from the authors. However, copies were sent to various libraries such as Harrogate, Leeds and York libraries, the British Library, the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library and the Folklore Society.
• The Return of the Blue Stots - Extract from Return of the Blue Stots, Marshall & Rankin, 2004 - English Dance and Song Spring 2004.
• Clog Morris - There's no such thing! Morris Matters Volume 11 Number 1
• Royal Preston Morris Dancers : A Brief History - Morris Matters Volume 21 Number 1 January 2002
• Tradition from the Bare Bones - Morris Matters Volume 20 Number 1 January 2001 - also published in The American Morris Newsletter Summer 2002 Volume 24 Number 2
• The Flag and Bone Gang - an Insight - English Dance and Song Autumn 2002
• Kitsyke Will - Folk Review April 1978
• Alive and Kicking Script - 1986
• Ripon City Morris Dancers Dances - the Roots Tour Souvenir Booklet 2002
• The Abram Circle Dance - published by the Morris Federation
• Women and the North West Morris - published by the Morris Federation
• Ripon City Morris Dancers - Best Decorated Hat Competition
• The Streb E-melodeon or Electronic Melodeon - English Dance and Song Winter 2003
• Ripon City Morris Dancers - List of Dance-Outs
• Angela Mary Lee (1945 -2008) - Morris Federation Newsletter Autumn 2008 Pages 14-17
• Singing for Blind Jack - Dalesman July 2009
• Blue Stots: Field Notes - a PDF containing all the new information collected while researching the Blue Stots plays. See also The Master Mummers Blog.
• The Words of the Ripon Sword Dance. A new chapbook style pamphlet originally prepared for 2005 and further revised in 2010. Print this PDF back-to- back, then fold to create an 8 page A5 pamphlet.
• An article about the Charity Collections for the Knaresborough Mummers' 2010/11 Blue Stotting season. This is what actually appeared in the Ackrill Media Group Newspapers on 28 January 2011.
• Alphabetical Tune Index for Nick Barber's English Selection
• The Flag and Bone Gang: 15 Years On - Tykes News Autumn 2013
• I played a very small role in the production of the excellent tutor book - The Anglo Concertina : Absolute Beginners by Chris Sherburn and Dave Mallinson
• Some morris dance material and dance notations developed over the years:
  • Jackstaff - a four man flag dance developed for the Flag and Bone Gang
  • The York Hornpipe - a six man flag dance developed for the Flag and Bone Gang
  • Queen of the Wells - a Cotswold style dance developed for Betty Lupton's Ladle Laikers, this is embedded in a longer piece attempting to describe Betty Lupton's Cotswold style dancing.
  • Grove Park Polka - a North West style dance developed for Betty Lupton's Ladle Laikers
  • Skipton Road Dance - a North West style dance developed for Betty Lupton's Ladle Laikers
  • Trip to Knaresborough - a North West style dance developed for Betty Lupton's Ladle Laikers
  • Ripon 1100 Dance - a North West style dance developed for Ripon City Morris Dancers
  • Ripon Number 3 - a North West style dance developed for Ripon City Morris Dancers
  • The King Billy (or the Old Men's Morris Dance) - a North West style dance developed for Ripon City Morris Dancers
• Do you know that my cat has pissed on your guitar? A booklet containing a collection of anecdotes, stories amd reminscences, many with an amusing slant, from many mis-spent years of folk singing, morris dancing, mumming and playing for folk dance of all kinds. Front cover page.