One early Boarding Party experience: We were invited to sing at the Southern Maryland Celtic Festival. When we got to the concert site, we found that our stage was at the end of a long extension cord from the main building, along which were the sites of various other performers and presentors. We set up and began to do a sound check to test the mikes. Everything sounded OK, so we started our set. After 10 minutes, the sound went dead, and the sound man fiddled with the controls, but nothing happened, so we sang unamplified for about 200 people during the next few minutes. The sound again came back on, and stayed on for about 5 more minutes, before going off once again. We finished our set, and went to talk to the site manager about the problem. As we walked back up the hill, we found out waht the problem was: A group of Welsh ladies were making pichabach (sp?) and every time they heated up the electric skillet, they drained all the power out of the extension cord. When they finished making a batch, they turned off the skillets, and the sound stage got its power back.