Some Morris Men and other players were in the Kings Head and Bell, on Sunday afternoon, playing traditional songs and tunes. I recorded an Abingdon traditional tune to use with the end of month blog slide show.
There is an opportunity for a musician with Mr Hemmings Traditional Abingdon Morris Dancers. Email bagman@mrhemmings.org.uk if you are interested or ring Les on 01235 520812.
The slideshow – with music – is a roundup of Abingdon in February 2011 with some never seen before pictures. It is dominated by the growth of the scaffolding round the County Hall. I have no idea how buns are going to be thrown through such scaffolding yet. I would imagine quite a few will rebound and hit the poor dignatories.
A familiar sight and sound in Abingdon is the Classical Guitarist.
Not as frequent, but I have seen them more than once, are these fully-grown Shetland ponies from Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire. Here to raise money for the Phoenix Children’s Foundation. They say the money they raise in Abingdon will be spent on helping children here in Abingdon.
This evening at the Guildhall George Haslam’s big band Swing Time were playing music from the fifties to help raise money for the Abingdon Arts Festival.
Next Saturday, the Cross Keys are going Back to the Eighties.
Alongside, one football fixture from 2011 would look very strange to anybody from the fifties or eighties… Manchester United V Crawley Town in the 5th round of the FA Cup. Crawley are a non league team who have invested lots of money to get the best non league players. Their pay cheque from this game could well ensure they do not loose out.