I would like to thank those that attended today for some brilliant playing, dancing and excellent company at this, my favourite event of the season. The weather was kind to us with the only rain coming well after we finished our set. Well done to Hector Wells who played in public, if memory serves, for the first time and did very well. Thanks to Donald for being totally dependable in leading the tunes and to all our ten dancers who delivered a very high quality demonstration of the Adderbury Village tradition. The crowd loved our performance and I have never had to work less hard to recruit volunteers for our audience participation Shepherds Hey. Of course, the beer tent probably helped, but even so the level of enthusiasm from our audience was unusually high. It was a lot of fun and the organisers of the Festival were very grateful for our contribution. We should like to thank Jessica Wood and the Festival organising committee for inviting us to dance and all the volunteers who helped to ensure that it was such an enjoyable day. Our thanks also to Donald for his photos.
Today was a bitter sweet occasion following on the death of a fine AVMM musician, John Wright on Friday 13th June but John would have enjoyed today’s celebration of music, dance and fellowship.
On Saturday 21st June, we are performing at Tingewick Fete at 1.30pm and then at a wedding in Steeple Aston at 3.30pm – we are looking forward to it!
John Ekers