Festival appeal.A JAPANESE couple are fleeing from the World Cup in favour of a Cheshire festival of folk music folk music: see folk song. folk music Music held to be typical of a nation or ethnic group, known to all segments of its society, and preserved usually by oral tradition. Knowledge of the history and development of folk music is largely conjectural. and boating activities. Masayoshi Koizumi and his wife, Maki, read about Middlewich Folk and Boat Festival The Middlewich Folk and Boat Festival takes place in June in Middlewich, Cheshire, England. The festival builds on the towns industrial heritage in which canal boats were used to move coal and other raw materials in the town for the production of salt, and then move the salt out of on the internet and decided it was not a venue to miss. They will fly from Japan with their threeyear-old daughter, Tomo, to join 30,000 other visitors from June 14-16. The festival already has an international flavour but this is the first time the Far East will have been represented as far as organisers are aware. Festival chairman Stephen Dent said: ``It's amazing they are travelling all that way just for the festival, but it does show we have international status.'' The festival is centred round Market Field and the Trent and Mersey Canal The Trent and Mersey Canal is a 93.5 miles (150 km) long canal in the East Midlands, West Midlands, and North West of England. It is mostly a "narrow canal" (locks and bridges big enough for a narrowboat 72 feet long x 7 feet wide) but east of Burton on Trent, it is a wide canal . |
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