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“Here at the fair” is Mick Ryan's sixth 'folk opera' will be performed at Tenterden Folk Festival on Saturday 6th October. Mick’s previous shows were “A Day's Work”, “The Voyage”, “Tanks For the Memory”, “The Navvy's Wife” and “The Pauper's Path” and were all very well received and reviewed. Comments included “A fantastically moving piece of work” from 'R2' magazine and “Another classic” from “Folk North West”.

The scene is set at a country fair in 1850. A group of travelling showmen and women arrive and set out their stalls. Using twenty of Mick's original songs along with a little dialogue, monologue and spoken verse, the show tells the back stories of this group of society's outsiders and puts their wandering lives of music, song, dance, lights and laughter in the social and political context of the time.

The cast comprises Pete Morton, Geoff Lakeman, 'Granny's Attic' (Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyn, George Sansome and Lewis Wood), Heather Bradford, Alice Jones and of course Mick himself. A high quality line of singers and musicians.