Dialect Society in special event
Published Date:
14 August 2008
THE East Riding Dialect Society 16th annual Celebrating Yorkshire Day event has been hailed a success.
A total of 12 members of the Society and folk singer Steve Gardham presented an entertaining programme to a large and receptive audience at Burnby Hall, Pocklington, and recruited several new members at the same time.
Performers were from all parts of the county from as far afield as Withernsea, Welton and Wold Newton. Their topics ranged from skinning a rabbit and black leading the fireplace to how to get rid of telephone sales people by answering them in East Yorkshire dialect.
Steve Gardham played his melodeon, and included a Jolly Ploughman tune sung by all the lads of the Sledmere Waggoners Reserve during World War I.
Paintings, wood turning, crochet and greeting cards made by members were on display and the ladies in the kitchen provided tasty 'looance'.
The society's next meeting is the Mell Supper and Members' Night on Thursday September 25 at their regular venue, the Rose and Crown, Little Driffield.
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Last Updated:
14 August 2008 4:34 PM
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