Been away in France. Good to see the Thread has interested people and drawn out so much history.

Saw a great collection of Dancers from the South West of France (Le Lande?) They dance on stilts. We first saw them at Sidmouth on our honeymoon a thousand years ago. They sang some weird songs to a melodeon and some strange instruments I have never seen. One was a drum made from a jug with a skin stretched over the top and a stick going through the skin. I once heard Bert Lloyd descibe such drums and their strange erotic sound.

As Harry has pointed out I am guilty of thread jumping and am now in danger of jumping my own thread.

So returning to the point, F & F is strange and powerful as was this music from Le Lande and The Trio Bulgarka as Steve the squeze reminds us. Folk does throw this up from time to time to show that the tradition is alive.

Who in the current generation will be scaring us?