Helston Band Flora Day
by Terri Waters
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Helston Band Flora Day
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Terri Waters
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The streets of Helston in Cornwall echo to the sounds of enjoyment and happiness in celebration of a tradition that is steeped in history and receives such support and enthusiasm. Helston family members and friends will travel the world to be in the town for May 8th.
For hundreds of years in the Cornish market town of Helston the townsfolk have celebrated and enjoyed the wonderful tradition that is Flora Day.
It is a spring festival to celebrate the end of winter and mark the arrival of the new vitality and fertility with the trees and flowers bursting into life. The houses and shops of the town are decorated with greenery and floral arrangements to express the spirit of renewal and the townsfolk dance in the streets.
The heroes of Flora Day are of course the Helston Town Band who play the traditional tune as only they know how. Many of them process with the dancers on four occasions during the day around the four mile route, maintaining the rhythm and beat and sound that comes and goes throughout the day.
The Flora Dance melody, played during the celebrations every year by Helston Town Band, is said to date back to a pre-Christian times.
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March 21st, 2018
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