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on 11 December 2004 (#5425331)
Spoutwood Farm Fairie Festival
Glen Rock, Pennsylvania, United States
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Spoutwood Farm May Day Fairie Festival will be held May 5, 6 & 7 2006. This will be the 15th annual Fairie Festival. Friday is the official Children's Day.
The May Day Fairie Festival is the brainchild of Rob and Lucy Wood, owners of Spoutwood Farm, an organic farm in the Community Supported Agriculture movement. It began as a party for about 100 friends, and was last year celebrated by nearly 10,000 “friends” of the Little People from the area and as far away as Scotland. Previously a one-day festival, a second day was added as a response to the Festival’s rising popularity.
Once again, the Festival will celebrate the ripening of Spring and all of the Nature Spirits return to the Warm World with over 80 arts and crafts vendors (mostly featuring handmade art inspired by the Little People), performances by Celtic musicians and dancers, participatory Maypole Dancing accompanied by bagpipes, Coronation of the King and Queen of May, pony rides, Fairie craft activities such as Fairie Wand and Garland Making (involves a small fee), food vendors, Fairie and other Nature Spirit environments to explore, a Natureplace offering a place for environmental, health, animal and other groups to share their vision, Woodland Gnome and Elf tours, Fairie Tea Parties, guest appearances by the Green Man, Sweet Pea, Posie, and other Celebrefairies. There will be a photo area for parents who bring their own cameras to photograph their kids with Celebrefairies.
Families attending this event have discovered that this event is not just for kids! And indeed, in keeping with the Festival tradition, the first 100 persons, whether child or adult, who come in Nature Spirit costume will receive a free bag of FAIRIE DUST, with which to magically transform their friends, family, pets, etc. The Fairie and May Day themes go back to ancient times in almost all cultures, especially to the Celts of the British Isles who had a festival on the first of May called Beltane. It was a time of great rejoicing at the return of the earth's abundance in spring and the impending bounty of summer. The Celts celebrated the spirits of nature by honoring not only the plants that they could see and smell but also the unseen beings of the fairie realm. Today throughout the world there is a REVIVAL of these traditional celebrations.
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