Garforth Festival

Date: 14 July 2010 19:10:02

Last weekend The Mister and I went to the Garforth Arts Festival along with Tom and Anne and the boys. We had no idea what this would be like. The website had very little information on it and all we knew was that there were some good artists playing. What we found was a rather brilliant local festival. Most of the afternoon was taken up by performances from the kids at the school and their various bands, and some of them were very, very good. They also had a parade of African music and dancing as the school is affiliated with a school somewhere in South Africa.

In the evening Oompah Brass played, dressed appropriately in lederhosen but rather less typically playing pop songs. The London Community Gospel Choir played and as always they were brilliant, followed by the rather bizarrely named Get Cape, Wear Cape, Fly who was pretty good and the evening was topped off with the brilliant Seth Lakeman. I am still amazed that they managed to get him to play at such a small, local event but it was fantastic.

All in all it was a fab day. Great music, lovely weather and the chance to spend time with some of our best friends and their funny children. Matthew and Andrew kept us entertained all afternoon by dancing (oh and Andrew shuffling along on his bottom and thinking it was hilarious!) and baby Mark was just.... cuddly!