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• Crowds enjoy the sights, sounds and warm summer
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Blue sky for green man
Words and pictures by Andy Keeble
andrew.keeble@archant.co.uk
BRIGHT BLUE skies cascaded onto a street of green at the weekend
as Pilton broke out the colour and paid special homage to its own
Green Man.
Saturday’s festival – awash with market stalls, street
performers, games, sideshows, crafts demonstrations and music –
once again provided the perfect stage to celebrate the Green Man
- an ancient pagan symbol of nature and fertility.
The festival’s vice chairman Noel Harley said: “The festival
goes from strength to strength and although it is difficult to quantify
how many people attended, we estimate that there probably between
four and five thousand people in the street and in the Rotary gardens
during the course of the day.
“The pageant was once again performed brilliantly and is something
that the people taking part in are immensely proud of,” he
added.
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• Magician and entertainer Dave
Hendy added to the fun.
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• A colourful costume.
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| • Pilton’s own Green man carving
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• Samba Sol from Bideford led the procession
through the town.
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• The Green Man: An ancient symbol
of nature and fertility.
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• Young students of the Pilton Dance
Academy open the pageant.
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• Live music on four stages added to the
spectacle.
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