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SLOW LORIS AT THE 19th LEIGH FOLK FESTIVAL
Sunday 27th June 2010
It is always a pleasure to play at the Leigh Folk Festival. Strong competition this year from England's crucial World Cup Football Match on tv failed to keep the crowds away from the Procession Finale and Family Ceilidh in the Victoria Car Park. From the opening Four Hand Reel with massed morris dancers to the last dance, the Circassian Circle, there was barely time to breathe. Slow Loris played a selection of tunes from their forthcoming CD, including Haste to the Wedding, Old Hag and Sweets of May. They also found time for a couple of songs, an evocative version of 'A Drop of Nelson's Blood', which highlighted Joe Parker's superb accordion sound and a singalong Festival favourite, written by Jack Forbes, 'Day Trip to Southend'.
Slow Loris enjoyed working with not one, but two, fine callers, Bill Delderfield and Keith Baxter, who captured the excitement and atmosphere of the afternoon and had the dancers coming back for more. So, another successful Leigh Festival Ceilidh on a hot, sunny afternoon, and as for the football....
SLOW LORIS AT THE BIG HOG ROAST, WARE - 19th June 2010
Where in Ware where - sorry - were - we? We had followed our intrepid leader down the back roads of Chelmsford and out into the countryside and lost him on the road to nowhere. Nevertheless, without a guide but with the built-in radar and instinct of the Lesser Spotted Loris, we made it to the gig just in time.
This was the Slow Loris Band's second year at the Ware Hog Roast and once again it was a grand occasion. Excellent food, audacious dancing, sparkling songs and zestful music and sterling work by the organisers, the Knights Templars. It was a real barn dance in a real barn, comfortably controlled by champion caller Sibby, with many hot licks from the band and high capers from the dancers. The food just kept coming, the mead kept flowing, and a very good time was had by all.
SLOW LORIS AT THE FOLK AND BLUES NIGHT, GORKHA LEARNING FUND-RAISER,
HORNDON VILLAGE HALL, 22nd MAY 2010
Slow Loris added their support at the last minute to the annual Folk and Blues fund-raiser for Gorkha Learning in Horndon-on-the Hill. And what a great night it was, with a superb finishing set from bill-toppers and local heroes, Whatever Next (featuring, of course, Slow Loris' own Martin Cowpland on guitar, mandolin and banjo, and joined for the occasion by Joe Parker and Max Blake).
The Slow Loris Band were able to present their theatrical side, with extracts from the new Rolling Down the River Show. The audience participation, especially during the Billingsgate Market sequence, allowing all those present to come out with a tremendous cacophony of street cries, was truly amazing!
Hopefully, Slow Loris will do the whole show as a fund-raising event for Gorkha Learning in the near future.