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Written by S. Lough | |||
Monday, 14 March 2011 13:32 | |||
The following email was sent to one of the organisers of Cheltenham Folk Festival in February 2011 by a local Morris side whose members were not impressed with the reception they received: “Jo, On behalf of Silurian Border Morris I’m just popping this note across to say how sorry we were to have come on the wrong weekend! Worse than that, we had clearly arrived at an inconvenient time for the town, right in the middle of Scowl And Put Up The Beer Price Fortnight. It therefore came as no surprise that there were no obvious stewards to advise or assist us; nor that the sides we’d expected to dance with were not in evidence; nor that every place we went into had never heard of Morris dancing and had no intention of wanting to find out more! If ever an invitation comes to participate in CFF again we’ll be sure to check dates; check weather forecasts; check for folk friendly pubs; avoid the town centre. However, the experience was not entirely in vain. We did manage to upset a good few security guards and entertain some strangers, both in the street and outside the Town Hall. And a side member was moved to plagiarise the great Poet Laureate (Ed: The original can be found here) in order to summarise our feelings:
No doubt we’ll get an Arts Council Grant to turn it into a banner for next year’s CFF... yours etc,”
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