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Rain on the Parade — Kingston’s Mud Festival

04-Jul-07
Jennifer Barclay's account of Kingston's answer to the Boryeong Mud Festival Where else on a wet Saturday in June would you get classical dance, freestyle football and women arm-wrestling? But no-one I asked in Kingston-upon-Thames knew where Fairfield Recreation Ground was. Signs might even have attracted the curious. Eventually I got directions from a policewoman, and the friendly young man at the entrance to the park welcomed me with a surprising handshake to the 10th Korean Festival. Last year's was held in mid-August and was rainy and windy, one reason for the Korean Residents Society moving it forward to 30th June this year. It had alternated between drizzle and torrential all morning, and small crowds huddled around the tents with umbrellas. The ...
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Kingston Korean Festival 2007 programme

30-Jun-07
Courtesy of the Korean Language Meetup group: 10th Korean Festival 2007 Festival Programme 09:50 Entry 10:00 Opening Ceremony 10:30 Ceremonial Parade of British Korean War Veterans 10:50 Gilnori (Samulnori genre) performed by Hanaldarae team to pronounce the start of the festival and pray for a successful festival 11:00 A series of traditional Korean dance performed by Jun Soon Hee's dance team from SeoKyeong University 11:25 Harmony of Kayagum and guitar played by Ji-Eun Jung & Sung-Min Jun 11:35 Further performance by Jun Soon Hee's dance team 11:45 Further performance by Ji-Eun Jung & Sung-Min Jun Variation of DoRaJi (Kayagum Solo) Cannon Variation (Kayagum & Guitar Duet) Pop song - "Let it be" (Kayagum & Guitar Duet) 11:55 Further performance by Jun Soon Hee's dance team 12:05 Demonstration of Korean Traditional Musical Instruments by ...
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Enjoy the festival

29-Jun-07
Don't be put off by the jaded travel professionals appearing in today's more lengthy post. Go to Kingston tomorrow and have some fun. I hope the weather's OK. As for the Trafalgar Square event, I'm afraid I've got to be elsewhere, so again can I ask you to take your digital cameras and send in some good pictures (to philip at the domain name of this blog)? And if there's anyone willing to put finger to keyboard to write a quick account of the proceedings that would be good as well. Have fun. Links Korean Festival 2007 page on the Kingston borough website Related posts:What’s on in August This month’s events are: The open air Korean festival on...More pictures from the Dano festival Many thanks ...
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