Annual Traipse 2024

Here is a video comprising our many performances on 2024's annual Traipse around Grenosde. This marked the debuts performances of Joe Bath, Jo Birch, and Debbie Williams

Boxing Day 2020

In 2020, our Boxing Day performance did not take place as usual because of Covid-19 restrictions. A few of us made an appearance outside the Old Harrow Inn on Main Street at 11am as usual, but our usual performance was not possible. Instead we paid tribute to Gerry Bates who was an important member of the team for almost 50 years, and who sadly died at the end of November 2020.

This video was in lieu of our usual Boxing Day performance.

SDU in Richmond 11th October 2014

We performed our traditional dance in Richmond Town Hall, where the annual SDU event was held that year

We also performed our Six Jolly Miners dance. Here's one of the performances we did around Ricxhmond town centre

Hill Top Farm 27th August 2010

Video taken by the Yorkshire Post of our centenary celebration at Hill Top Farm in Grenoside, the place where Cecil Sharp saw the dance exactly 100 years earlier

Hooton Roberts 27th August 2010

Video taken by the Rotherham Advertiser of our centenary celebration at the Earl of Strafford pub in Hooton Roberts. The rectory next door is the place where Cecil Sharp stayed before setting off to see the dance exactly 100 years earlier

Grenoside Methodist Hall 15th October 2010

Orion Longsword perform their dance Sandy Boys at the Women's Institute Harvest Supper, on the eve of the 2010 SDU Festival and Tournament in Grenoside.

Grenoside SDU weekend 15th-17th October 2010

Erika Roderick of Orion Longsword from Boston, USA, created a 'digital story' of her visit to Grenoside as a class project. She has given us her kind permission to include it here. It gives a unique insight into our traditions seen from a different perspective.