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This
year the Dehewelans ("Homecoming") festival was held on
the Barrowfields at Newquay. Beginning on the 28th April and ending
on 3rd May crowds gathered each day for a variety of celebrations,
tours and events.
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| Part
of the bardic procession |
In
a large exhibition marquee there were displays and exhibits from
- amongst others - Helston Folk Museum, The Lost Gardens of Heligan,
Cornish World Magazine, the Cornish Audio Visual Archive and An
Daras.
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| Heather
Dale as Lady of the Flowers |
On
the second day of the Festival the Pentorr Youth Band played prior
to a performance of Hotel - a play based on the riots which took
place at the well known Cornish landmark The Headland Hotel. Concerts
in the evening were arranged for the delegates and local people.
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| Cornish
Wrestler Gerry Cawley |
A Jazz
and Rock Night was organised for 30th April and a Brass Band Bonanza
for the following evening. Music was an important theme of the whole
Festival which also included a performance by Canadian Heather Dale
(see her page on this site) who also acted as Lady of the Flowers
in the Gorsedd proclamation.
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| The
Trevithick Society's exhibit at Dehwelans |
Bards
gathered on the Sunday afternoon for the ceremony led by Grand Bard
Rod Lyon (see Rod's teach-yourself-Cornish lessons on this site
too). The blues robes fluttered against the sea and the sky in this
spectacular clifftop location.
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| Two
delegates wearing their Cornish tartan |
Another
celebration is already being planned in Cornwall for 2008.
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