Sidmouth is a small (usually quiet) town on the Devon coast in southern England. For one week a year the entire place rings with folk music - Morris dancing on the promenade, "scratch" orchestras in the council offices and rugby clubs, dance workshops and instrument-playing lessons everywhere, concerts in the pubs - and buskers wherever they can make themselves heard , even in the churchyard (which always worries me a bit - exactly what might applaud ?!)
There's a river (the "Sid") which runs through the town,with a shallow ford at one point. On the last afternoon, there is always an unofficial barn-dance in the ford. It has no organiser and is never advertised because if anyone drowned they'd be sued (though the water is two inches deep at most !)
but various people bring instruments (some even play the same tune !), a few dozen dance in the stream, while several hundred stand around watching and getting in the way of each others' cameras.
Here's a link to some youtube videos - more to come -
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYQ5ZjAFNvdpoo99ykvS48w/videos
