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 and was on sale at a price of £4.95 (plus £1.50 postage and packing) but it is no longer available from the authors. There may still be a copy or two for sale from Colin and Karen Cater of Hedingham Fair.
• 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