Last Easter seemed to go okay despite my usual panic attacks !! A communication breakdown meant that no Dance sides actually got invited...whoops! I have already invited a number of dance sides, so the always popular Dance Displays will be back.

The weekend kicks off on Friday lunchtime with a

Welcome Session, a chance to renew friendships and get yourself in the mood for the Evening Sessions and Folk Club

Saturday's events include

Corn Dolly making

Lace Making Workshop

(All materials supplied for both these activities)

Old Time Music Hall

With your Master of Ceremonies - Professor Rodger Evans

 

Afternoon Celebrity Folk Concert

And in the Evening

Grand Easter Saturday Ceilidh

with a welcome return from

The Rarebits Ceilidh Band

 

As well as workshops and sessions and new this year

Mill Cottage Folk Concert Club

A subtle cross between the formality of a concert and the noise of a club session. Designed to allow a longer spot for our ever increasing guest list

And be prepared to stay up for Stories through Midnight

Easter Sunday itself should be really special starting with a

Traditional Easter Family Breakfast

Followed by the

Grand Easter Procession

All dance sides welcome, in costume please, and any children in fancy dress may even get a special prize.

Then Back to The Mill for

~ Pace-Egging Ceremony ~

~ Dance Displays ~ Pub Sessions ~

~ Concerts ~

~ Easter games~ etc. ~

Storytelling will again play its important part in the weekend . We have our regular storytellers, thereby hangs a tale or two , I'll be bound ! Be prepared to stay up late Friday and Saturday evenings for the Tales through Midnight Specials.

 

We will have exclusive use of the whole of the Miskin Mill Scout Village. The Mill Kitchen will be in full swing courtesy of John Loughlin with BFUS Catering. He will be providing for all meals from Breakfast through to supper. An extensive menu will be available with meals to suit all tastes, all at reasonable prices.

In the same building will be "Nellie Dean's Bar", providing the usual range of real ales and other drinks. The main room of the Mill ( right next to the bar ) with its log fire and carved oak beams, will be the perfect setting for music sessions, in time honoured Miskin Style.

The Cottage will be the venue for the evening Folk Clubs, Stories. If you have been to the mill before you will remember the superb acoustics, a real joy to sing there.

The Pace Egging and other Easter games have estabished themselves a regular spot as you can see from the pictures these events were as popular with the adults as the children.