Hollytree Morris is 50 years old!
We began in 1974. Here we are celebrating at the BC Legislature, 15 June 2024
News – June 2025
We were filmed by AMI: Accessible Media Inc for ‘Postcards’ – an ongoing series on Knowledge Network and elsewhere.
Postcards From Victoria – AMI TV, June 2025
Dancing Through Victoria with the Hollytree Morris Dancers
Our Golden Year
We decided to celebrate our Golden Jubilee with three dance-outs: With the other two local sides – Island Thyme Morris and Quicksbottom Morris – on June 15th; with Seattle’s Sound and Fury Morris and our local sides on July 6th, and later in the summer – date TBD – with the Vancouver Morris Men, Tiddley Cove Morris and our local sides.
Our golden kit
We added lots of gold touches to our kit: Gold ribbons on our arms and hats, gold laces in our shoes, gold hankies to wave, a sprig of gold holly and a gold badge.
June 15th Dance-out
We gathered at the Bent Mast for lunch, danced at Fisherman’s Wharf Park and the BC Legislature, and then off to our home pub, Christie’s Carriage House, for the evening.
Here is a video by Stan Coe showing us dancing at the Leg –
July 6th Dance-out
We gathered at Spinnakers for lunch, danced at Songhees Park and the BC Legislature, and then off to our home pub, Christie’s Carriage House, for the evening.
Our spiffy new banner and gold badge
Thanks to the design work and handicraft of Stephen and Hilary Brown we have the spiffy new banner shown in the photo, with elements of the Forest of Dean jacket patches incorporated.
Also, and thanks to the design and crafting skills of Steve Leithwood, we have the gold-embossed leather badge shown at the top of the page,
Our original logo
Another column about Hollytree Morris by Trevor Hancock
Trevor writes a regular weekly column on population and public health matters for our regional daily newspaper, the Times Colonist. The one celebrating our Golden Jubilee is on a separate page on this site. He wrote another column about us in 2015, here is the link:
Dancing into a healthy old age (10 June 2015)
Hollytree Morris Dancers 