The Knots of May

The Knots of May are a women’s Morris team formed in the Autumn of 1974 in Brighton.

Come join us! We are looking for new dancers: If you like any dancing from Ceilidh to Zumba – and long victorian dresses – you’re halfway there 💃🏾

Winter Tuesdays we practice in Lewes. DM or email for waitlist.

Band membership is by invitation.

The children’s game. “Here we go gathering nuts in May” is a perversion of

“Here we go gathering knots of May,” referring to the old custom of gathering knots of flowers on May-day, or, to use the ordinary phrase, “to go a-Maying.”

Of course, there are no nuts to be gathered in May.

E. Cobham Brewer 1810-1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.

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