Tia Maria Mardi Gras
     Pat Welch  
13 Aug 2006

It started Very Thundery, which was kind of appropriate for a day of tropical music. Pat decided to  go for the hall at Great Chesterford rather than the lawn at Audley End.  But we looked good anyway. Gilly had done a beautiful centrepiece with sunflowers and wheat and oats to celebrate Lammas, the time of harvest. A Johnny Depp look-alike stunned the ladies with Rum and the ancient and hopeful gift of Throwbeads...well, actually, he probably stunned the men even more.  But the music was the star. Salsa, Tango, Mambo, Miserlou, you name it.  Fabulous!  Spicy and energetic and irresistable.  Pat's cd is available from her, and you could no doubt book her to teach - in her excellent, charismatic, inimitable style - the set.  Her email is  patwelch@classicsq.wanadoo.co.uk
Sunworshipper Pat Welch, what a star! Johnny Depp? Or....	A HotBlooded Southern Belle....
Norman and audience - lovely shirt....  Gilly being Tempted by a Mysterious Dark Stranger.....
AJH took the good photos.  I think I took the one of Norman. Look out for the Christmas event... Home Page