Displays

They welcomed us to the annual Wittenham Free Charity Music Festival, in the grounds of the Plough Inn, Long Wittenham, near Didcot, Oxfordshire - allegedly the friendliest, most enjoyable, eclectic and entertaining small festival anywhere. In 2009, the festival raised £3,060 for local charities. The festival started on the Friday evening and ran until late Sunday afternoon. They sold programmes, raffle tickets, badges, hats and shirts and collected donations in buckets by the busking spot we were are so they can support our chosen charities The Oxfordshire Befriending Network and Riding For The Disabled Association, Abingdon Group.

We danced from 5.50pm to 6.30pm in the busking area - and we were good. Hazel's mum was well impressed!

If you took photos, please send them to us - 1000 pixels wide is a nice size if you're not sure what we like!

Rapper Extra

Here are videos of us at Wittfest 2010

Go Mauve

Elastikk Band

OUR MEMBERS THERE:
Simon
Thierry
Sally
Jess
Josh
Lisa
Lissa
Sue
Hazel
Ben
Alan
and no Jamie!

All sticking together in Jacobs Ladder

Tinners Rabbit came out of the hat at this event -

With 40 minutes to fill we did all our current border dances - Jacobs Ladder, Go Mauve, Tinners Rabbit and Just as the Tide. Rapper, RapperExtra (with egg whisk & bully) and a musical interlude by the Elastikk Band (Scattery Island, Killiecrankie & New Rigged Ship) filled the time to perfection.

Elastikk Band - with Hazel next to the bucket just in case...?

Mark Wilkin, Wittfest's busking organiser seemed happy with what we'd done, and Hazel went round collecting money from the spectators in the official Wittfest bucket which made Mark even happier.

Simon mid-way through his impressive tree-felling impersonation

The Coxes and Thierry did a seriously slick rapper display near the beginning of our programme but Hazel was too busy talking to take photographs and Hazel's mum didn't take any because Hazel wasn't dancing. Sorry. So here's a few of the RapperExtra display with Ben Josh Hazel Lissa and Thierry. (which are probably better to look at anyway! Or not!)

The Extra in RapperExtra seemed to be the extra stepping between the moves to cope with the shoe-losing, shoe-lace-discussing and move remembering.

The grand finale was the star-collapsing and sword-dropping after stepping in the final line-up for what seemed like several times through the music before Thierry worked out where we could stop! Awesome and entertaining are two words that spring to mind.