Just found out that this year the Gumeracha Mediæval Fair and the Mylor English Ale have a clash of dates! Damnit! I've already signed my contract to work at the Fair, and they need me enough that I can't cancel out. Double damnit! Especially since the reason the Ale was moved to the earliest possible date, which clashes with the Saturday of the Fair, is that we have a group of visiting Druids from Britain and the Isles, who can only be in Australia for a short time, and if the Ale happened in its usual range of mid to late May they would already have had to go home by then. Triple damnit because some of them are folk I know and like, and my only chance to catch up with them will be if I can get a lift over to Mylor on the Saturday night of the Fair. However, I no longer drive because my distance vision is failing, and the person most likely to be willing and able to give me a lift (the two events are some forty miles apart) may or may not have to be one of the entertainers for the Fair feast. Grumble mutter curse!
Anyway, for those who want to attend either event: Gumeracha Mediæval Fair, Gumeracha Park, Saturday 4 May and Sunday 5 May 2019. I'll be in the Viking Village both days, singing, storytelling and the like. Catch up with me if you are passing through. My icon pic is a good cartoon of how I look.
Mylor English Ale: Saturday 4May 2019, about 1000 til very late. Mylor, South Australia. Mylor Hall and Mylor Oval across the road. I won't be at the Ale this year, other than possibly for the Saturday night, but for those who like Morris dancing, maypoles, mystery plays, mummers and guisers, masked torchlight parades and a Green Man, Giants (not the SSSS kind, the traditional English kind), good music and good fun, it's great. I think they have Keith Preston's very traditional Punch and Judy show again this year. Saturday morning the Druids are having their gathering, and the Saturday evening concert has Damh the Bard and other interesting musicians from Britain, local band Spiral Dance and other good stuff.
