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| The Beech Band in full swing |
What could be more pleasant than spending a sunny afternoon at the
beach Beech in Chorlton listening to tunes from the Beech Band while drinking a pint of Copper Dragon?
These are some photos I took last Saturday, 10 April, when the sun blazed down on a little corner of Chorlton near Manchester. I arrived too late for the clog dance workshop held earlier in the morning, so I just settled down at a bench to listen to a very enjoyable tunes session.
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| Jenny Coxon on dulcimer |
The band played a selection of tunes from what I think is now their 5th music book, while Jenny Coxon on dulcimer also played a few very interesting tunes from a forthcoming edition of an 18th century Derbyshire musical MS. Jenny's husband was sporting a particularly elegant pink seersucker jacket that raised the sartorial standards by several notches.
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| Ken Deeks singing 'Waters of Tyne' |
Unfortunately I forgot to cover my head so that the skin on my bald patch is now peeling in a most unsightly manner. There was some discussion during the afternoon about the new shopping mall fad for dipping one's feet into a public fishtank for fish to nibble at the dead skin, and whether this could work for other body parts. There were some very impractical suggestions for head or full body immersions, where you could see that the treatment might be on the lines of "a great success, but alas! the patient died."
Still if the enterprising brains behind the Beech Band can come up with a practical model no doubt the Chorlton Arts week in May will feature a stall offering a special scalp tonic treatment from flesh-eating fish!
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| Les Jones on banjo |
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