Seahouses Maritime Festival 2009
The Seahouses Maritime Festival is held over a Saturday and Sunday, one weekend every year and this year was our Dancing School's fourth visit.
This year the shopfronts in the main street in Seahouses had been used as an art gallery, and this combined with the various musicians, street performers and stalls, shops and cafes etc, mean't quite a lot people wandering the streets.
Our brief was to move around the town and find suitable spots to dance, we soon found the 4 best places where there was plenty of room for the public to watch us. This was just as well because as soon as the Pipes and Drums started large crowds quickly gathered to watch the Dancers. We did actually find a fifth spot on the pier which was ideal apart from the fact that a play being acted out on the hill on the other side of the harbour didn't have any amplification so we were asked to stop after just two dances because our music was drowning out their voices and their audience was being distracted.Bagpipes should be fitted with a volume control!.
Broadswords on the Pier
Because this festival was over two days the Dancers took it in turns, as it was quite a distance to travel. The 'first shift' on the Saturday enjoyed not to bad a day(weatherwise), but did suffer one or two showers. The 'second shift' on the Sunday however needed suncream for what turned out to be an absolutely glorious red hot summers day.
some of the 'first shift' at Seahouses on the Saturday.
Actually there was also a 'third shift' this weekend. These poor unfortunates were supposed to Dance at Ovingham Goose Fair on the Saturday afternoon but this display was cancelled because of what can only be described as Monsoon weather conditions.
'Second shift' at Seahouses on Sunday.I Havn't got a
photo of the 'Third shift' as the camera was washed away.
Apart from a bit of sunburn, this was a thouroughly enjoyable weekend and I think the kids especially enjoved the Gift Shops, Chip Shops and Ice Cream Vans, the latter provng very popular on Sunday.