The Village Green


	Music and Art Festival - 4th, 5th & 6th September 2009

The Village is a fun-filled cartoon world packed with crazy characters, musical entertainment, impromptu antics and the odd sheep!

From the Inflatable Church, to Granny's Gaff, The Magic Lantern and Gramaphone Disco to the Village Hall, the Bandstand to the Village Disco, and a fair dollop of crazy games, quirky performances and silliness – you are guaranteed a laugh and great music to boot!

Displaying their theatrical spectacle and stunning set design Ladder 13 return this year to brighten your day with colourful cartoon characters, music & cabaret.
Catch their comedy capers and hilarious antics in The Fire Engine Show daily at 4.30 at the station on the Green.

Music & mayhem are the order of the day when the rootsy ‘n rustic Village Hall opens its doors and packs em to the rafters. Newly refurbished and back in the heart of the Village Green, this venue runs 10pm 4am.

World famous vaudevillian entertainer Little john Nee comperes the Cabaret Verite at The Bandstand. Running daily on the Village Green from 2pm- 4pm.

Brightly decorated and manned by The Mighty Mack, The Sideshows is the audience particaptory pulse of the Green. The vintage ‘coconut shy’ begs the passersby to try their luck as ‘Samson the drunken sailor’ jeers and baits them. Interactive theatre at its best! Daily from 2pm- 6pm.

Competition will be fierce at Sports Day as contestants battle for gold medals from the egg and spoon to 3-legged races. Ceremonial medal presentations included! Daily on the Village Green at 4 p.m.

Your favourite local village D.J’s playing all the top songs from the hit parade. Come down and join in the fun at the The Village Disco with classic games like Swimming Pool Chiic & 1950's House Husbands! Daily on the Village Green at 5 pm and playing in The Village Hall on Saturday night between 2am and 4 a.m.

Following on from the success of the Lovely Girls and Boys competition, Ladder 13 present "The Picnic's got Talent". Register yourself and your talent at the PGT Registry Office on the Green all day Saturday. Show starts Sunday in the Village Hall.

Smash Hits Gramophone Disco & Magic Lantern Cinema

This years theme is a vintage Tropicana, Tiki and Caribbean vibe. Think Carmen Miranda meets the calypsonians, and does the mambo down to Waikiki. The Magic Lantern Cinema will show early films of both Irish and international production and the Gramophone disco will emanate 78s and sounds that pre-date 1960. As well as showing feature length films, we will also show tailor made cinematic visuals that marry with the mood of the music.

The space will have comfortable seating & theatrical lighting with vintage photography in period frames around the walls. We use props and antiques to set the scene and transport the visitor to a Caribbean cabana circa 1948. It will be a civilized sanctuary for the weary festival goer.

Check out the board outside the venue scheduling the events.

The venue will run for eight hours per day.

Opening hours will be 3.00pm - 8.00 pm.
1.00am - 4.00 am.

Willow Sculptures

Towering once more over the Village Green & Zen Gardens , our willow sculptuires- a drummer, guitarist and fiddle playing Devil.

These giants are constructed completely out of willow woven in the wilds of west Wales. They are inspired and made for the festival tribe and they have wandered many a field and mile before landing at Stradbally.

Inflatable Church

Every year they blow up at Electric Picnic with weddings, funerals and
all things ecumenical; this year they're back with a whole lot more love
for our congregation. For those of you wishing to get hitched, the
Reverends Duncan Pritchard and Edmond Wellington will be holding wedding
ceremonies from 12-7pm daily.

But that's not all. There is also the Big Love Baptism, where you can
wash away your festival sins and mud.

Granny's Gaff

Partly inspired by the Woman's Institute and our own grannies, we call ourselves the Real Women's Institute. We create a small tea garden area in front of our gaff. Selling a range of hot drinks, toast, teacakes and hot cross buns, along with a small shop area stocking festival essentials we a social area and place to reminisce about the old days, We operate events and antics in our area and around the site such as : bingo, granny aerobics, 'Guess the Weight of the Colostomy Bag', musical statues, 'Dementia Dress-Up', storytelling, remote control grannies, toiletry applause, granny fights, wheelchair rides, our famous 'Bad Advice', constant measuring (in inches) and even jousting.

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