Dancin' Round the Maypole
Black Joak Morris was a wandering troupe at the Cobargo Folk Festival. There were not too many like them! We got tickets to the Festival when we knew we were settling here (back in Dec, I think). We thought it would be a great way to meet village folk. It was way too big for that. Generally there were about 5 performance venues going simultaneously (besides the wandering troupe) along with the Renaissance festival type food and knickknack booths. The bands ranged from relatively local to ones from Canada and Spain. The event was much much bigger than we anticipated. It started with a busking competition at the Cobargo Motel/Hotel/Pub/ Laundry/RV park on Thursday night. This overflowed into the street and had a bus to drive folks to and from local areas. We were off doing more rural fire service training so saw it but avoided it. [We went drafting instead-practice pulling water from a dam to reload trucks.] We did hear some amazing singers and instrumentalists. We also...