This weekend we visited the town of Lewes in East Sussex for the Lewes Folk Festival. The festival took part all over town with many pubs putting on bands and open music sessions, the local halls and schools opened up to hold dance and music workshops and the streets were filled with Morris Dancers. Whilst we were there we were lucky enough to catch the absolutely brilliant, Pepper's Ghost Magic Lantern Show.
The Magic Lantern itself is an original Victorian wooden projector through which a wide range of slides of old photos from the local area are projected, including some that are hand coloured. To accompany and explain the images, prose is read and old local Sussex folk songs are played and sung.
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