A special performance of the Mummers’ play The Nine Lives of Isambard Kingdom Brunel is to be staged at the Colston Hall during the Bristol Folk Festival this month.Rag Morris Mummers will bring the show to hundreds of festivalgoers on the main Colston Hall stage at 2pm on Saturday, April 30 – the middle day of the event which is back in the city after an incredible 32 years.

 Around 100 Bristol-based Morris dancers will also be converging on the Colston Hall over the three day May Day bank holiday festival, with foyer and outdoor performances. On May Day itself (Sunday, May 1) Morris sides Rag Morris, Pigsty and Ashley’s Rise will be dancing at dawn on Brandon Hill, high above the harbour, before making their way down to the city centre for post-breakfast displays outside the Hall where Bristol Morris Men will join them and where maypole dancing will also be part of the spring revelry.