Bagpipe and Hurdy Gurdy report

The 19th Audlem Bagpipe and Hurdy Gurdy Day took place on Saturday, the 12th of November, back at its original home, The Shroppie Fly in Audlem, after spending four years 'wandering in the wilderness'.

The usual number of 'more than double figures' of both types of instrument 'and their players' arrived, including Hurdy Gurdy-maker Neil Brook from Preston, and quite of few other musicians from Lancashire; Mike Billington from Manchester; Roy Skellem from Leeds; Peter Larson from London and 'a sizeable contingent' from Stoke-on-Trent.

Some fine music, including an unexpected, but all the more welcome, refreshingly risible rendition of a comic version of the 1642 'top of the pops' song 'Fortune my Foe'- re-composed and performed by the irrepressible progenitor of the event, the one-and-only, your very own JH- was enjoyed by a full house, that was well fed and watered, and generally looked after, by Gary and the Shroppie Fly staff.

Thanks are due to all those who attended and gave their support, and to those nameless folk who worked so hard to publicise the event.

Watch out for details of the 20th 'gathering'.

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