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Written by Richard Gregson
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Monday, 29 November 2010 17:45 |
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Handcart
This ingenious hand-cart offers protection from the elements and can be moved around an event so we can perform as wandering musicians.
It also allows us to perform with cover from the weather in venues where there is no vehicular access. We can wheel it in through a gateway five feet wide or erect it on-site.
The hand-cart gives a focus to our performance, no matter how modern the surroundings, that allows a greater suspension of disbelief.
It is pictured here in a medieval and early Victorian settings but can easily adapted with interior instruments, textiles and artefacts to make it appropriate to any of historical period on offer by the musicians.
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WAGON
 
For venues where there is vehicular access and no need to be mobile, the wagon offers a fantastic living history venue for the musicians to perform. It can be used on its own as a free-standing stage and with benches for an audience. Here it is pictured at in its 19th century guise, and also its 15th century guise. With different bunting, textiles and instruments within, it becomes a suitable stage for performances for a ‘millennium of music’. The musicians also augment the display by bringing a smaller period tent for staying over night when this is necessary.
The bunting not only serves to set the scene for a given historical period of history, but also serves to highlight the awning poles in accordance with health and safety considerations
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 15 May 2012 13:36 |
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