We are happy to say that The Lilies are back on track with our Summer programme. This Wednesday June 11th we will dancing in front of St Brelades Parish Hall at 8pm for approximately 45 minutes.
If it rains heavily we may not be there as no one wants to watch a wilting lily but otherwise we are a hardy bunch.

The Jersey Lilies celebrated a warm and sunny May Day 2025 by dancing in all of our twelve parishes with our Tour de Tours. We were creative and managed to find a tower of sorts in each of the parishes. We were joined for part of the day by Helier Morris and it was good to see them out and about again. Our large photo shows our penultimate parish where we revived ourselves with cake and prosecco. Note the one remaining Helier man who made it to the final parish. Our final dances were at the Portelet Inn where landlady Hazel revived us with essential vittles. 
We all agreed that this was one of our sunniest May Days yet from start to finish. 

Some of the many photos and videos taken during the day

Amanda dancing her jig 'Ladies Pleasure'

Jeremy dancing his jig 'Nutting Girl'

Hello everyone. We have been quiet because we were busy practising for our forthcoming season and getting ready for our first public appearance of our season.

Here is our May Day programme for Thursday May 1st which is our traditional 12 parish programme to welcome the arrival of Spring. It is loosely based on various towers around the island. We say loosely because some of the towers are not where we want them to be so we have been creative with our planning.

JERSEY LILIES

THE TOUR DES TOURS

1. St Clement:​0715 Le Hocq Tower

2. Grouville:  0800 La Rocque Harbour (overlooking Seymour tower and close by La Rocque tower, privately owned in a nearby house.)

3. St Martin:  0845 Dance by the St Catherine’s café (with a nod in the direction of St Catherine’s tower (by RNLI station)

4. St Saviour:  1015 JADC car park…. From where one could have seen Prince’s tower at Hougue Bie!

5. Trinity:  1100 Bouley Bay, looking across to Fort Leicester.

6. St John: 1145 By the parish hall, which has a tower.

Pub stop

7. St Ouen: 1300  Lewis tower ( sort of opposite Jersey Pearl)

          ​1330    Lunch stop

8. St Peter: 1500   the Windmill/Catherine Best  (Martello tower) 

9. St Mary:  1545  in front of the rectory, overlooking the church and it’s steeple.

Pub stop.

10. St Lawrence: 1700  In front of St Lawrence Parish hall ( it has a tower)

11. St Helier: 1745 First Tower (on the seaward side).  

12. St Brelade: 1830  Portelet Inn, overlooking Janvrin’s tomb. Come and join us as we dance and celebrate our twelfth parish.

We look forward to seeing you throughout the day on May 1st and assure you that we will dance in any weather that’s thrown at us.

During the winter we practice every Wednesday evening at Samares School and this is the ideal time to join us.  If you’d like to come along to one of our practices to see what it’s all about please feel free to get in touch using our Contact page. 

Our new website is live at jerseylilies.info

We will post updates here with information about where you can watch us dance. Our last event was the annual Wassailing.

In June 2024 The Jersey Lilies were invited to take part in the Lamb Ale at Kirtlington, Oxfordshire.

One of the ancient Whitsun Ales (aka festival), the Lamb Ale can be traced back to the early 1600’s, and took the form of a village festival and feast.

Morris dancers were always closely associated with the festivities. When Kirtlington Morris was revived in 1979, based on Cecil Sharp’s notes from early this century, it was fitting that they join with the village to help recreate the atmosphere of the Lamb Ale as it once was, with as many as twenty or more morris sides gathered together in celebration, if not in the rivalry and competition, of the earlier days.

We performed several times over the weekend and were introduced to a wide variety of regional styles of Morris with sides from across the country.