We practice during the Winter months on Tuesday evenings starting at 8pm close to the centre of Erdington. Please contact us for the practice location.
Tours take place during the year, usually around Birmingham and further north and we often attend a Ring Meeting or other major event each year. The Squire's Report for 2007 is here.
We wear a decorated straw hat, green tabard over a white shirt, black breeches and white stockings (long socks).
The face (head) on the tabard is the Green Man character found in many churches and ancient buildings. Supposedly the 'spirit' of the woodland, it is an ancient fertility symbol. Our design of Green Man was taken from a carving in Holy Trinity church in Coventry. Go here for more information.
The Lichfield dances, for which we have been designated custodians by The Morris Ring, were unseen outside the City of Lichfield until 1954 and are different from the six-man dances of the Cotswolds morris tradition in that they are for 8 dancers. Green Man have been fortunate to have led the Lichfield Bower for the last 50 years. This procession dates back to the yearly inspection of military equipment, as demanded by the Statute of Westminster in 1285. The morris in Lichfield is referred to in documents of the late 18th century. If you can provide any information about the Lichfield Morris tradition, or have any queries about it, please contact us. Information about the dances from a paper in the 1957 EFDSS Journal is here.

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