An event celebrating dance and folklore is making a comeback in Sandbach. 

Sandbach Day of Dance was a festival of Morris Dancing, organised by two Sandbach residents, which took place from 2000 to 2017. 

Now a new Sandbach Festival of Folk Music and Traditional Dance is taking place on June 1st from 10 am with support from Sandbach Town Council and local volunteers. 

Twelve Morris 'sides' have been confirmed including Domesday Morris and Ringheye Morris. Domesday Morris are based in Penkhull, Staffordshire and were formed in 2012 

They perform an energetic mixture of self– penned and adopted dances in the Welsh Border Morris tradition style. 

The Domesday Morris kit consists of white collarless shirts, brown corduroys, and tatters jackets in mixed woodland colours, finished off with a top hat decorated with flowers, foliage and feathers. 

Ringheye Morris is a North West Morris side founded in Mobberley in 1983 but in 2015 Ringheye moved to Knutsford. 

The name Ringheye was chosen, principally because Mobberley stands very close to Manchester Airport which used to be known as Ringway. 

The dancers will be performing in front of Sandbach Town Hall and in Market Square and in the evening there's a Ceilidh at St Mary's Church Hall. 

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