The Outside Capering Crew
Music
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Most of the tunes used by The Outside Capering Crew have come from the 19th Century Cotswold morris tradition. They are played on melodeons: free-reed squeezeboxes that have become the dominant instrument for morris music.
Crew musicians Mark Rogers and Lawrence Wright play in their own ear-catching style. For the dancers, the result is a thrilling musical maelstrom that makes for an exuberant show.
The driving pace of The Crew's sound is heard to great effect on three of the albums in Ashley Hutching's Morris On series, euphorically overlaid with the full weight of Ashley's band.