St Just is in its element for Lafrowda Day

Saturday 21 July is Lafrowda Day in St Just in Penwith. Already the town is buzzing in preparation for a day showcasing the best local creative talent with a mix of live music, street theatre, family fun and fantastic processions. The theme this year is ‘elements’.

The music programme features the very best of Cornish talent, and something for every taste. From the traditional voices of St Just’s very own Cape Cornwall Singers, through folk, funk, jazz, pop, punk and ska. Bands include Mr Clean, the Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, the Foggy Bottom Boys, the Eyelids, the Sycamores, Djazz Celtica, the Cornish Wurzels, and a headline set from local favourites, Pondlife.

There’s a packed programme of street performance, with a mix of home grown talent and special guests. This year visiting acts are nationally acclaimed street dancers from X-treme Street, and the pint-sized charmers, Hodman Dodmanott and Sally Forth. Old favourites, Sky Larks, will be bringing their unique aerial puppets back to St Just, and local children will be showing off the circus skills they’ve learnt in workshops run by Cirque du Ciel.

As ever, the highlight of Lafrowda Day are the processions, in which hundreds of local people take part. The children parade through the town at noon, the big images take to the streets at 15.30, and there are lanterns at 22.00. In the afternoon there will be large ‘trolley’ sculptures from St Just, Pendeen, St Buryan and St Leven primary schools, together with two made in the general community workshops.

All this and stalls, refreshments, children’s entertainment, and lots of surprises - twelve hours of free entertainment from 11.30 to 23.30 - a perfect day out for all the family.

Lafrowda Day is a showcase for the work of the Lafrowda Trust, the local community arts education charity, which runs the open workshops and funds artists to work in schools to make the trolley sculptures. Once again, the community workshops are led this year by sculptor, Graham Jobbins, assisted by Liz Tyrrell.

Lafrowda Day is the culmination of the week-long Lafrowda Festival with a programme of local events to please every taste. Full listings of the events on Lafrowda Day can be found on the festival website - www.lafrowda-festival.co.uk

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Further information:
Barbara Smith, Press Officer: press@lafrowda-festival.co.uk