4th Cider & Music Festival, Le Corboulo, Oct 2001
Central Brittany

20-28 Oct 2001

Yes we've done it again ! A smaller turnout of visitors this year but lots of goodwill spread amongst our neighbours. We played a Friday night session on 26th October in the Bar Corboulo, courtesy of Jacqueline and family, with Trevor, Dave Hunt, Richard Goodwin plus local musicians Christian & Alain le Guehennec. The evening was much animated by our walks back home in the dark to get storm lanterns etc because of a series of power cuts !

Saturday 27th saw another set of apple crushing and pressing, a good rehearsal by the newly formed Twm Twp Big Band (Breton based Welsh folk dance music- apparently the locals are fascinated by a band with no vowels) and some dancing in the Hangar. We carried on in the same vein all evening, with more visits from the Le Guehennec family, the music not entirely benefiting from an earlier visit to the Cave for supplies! 

Sunday 28th. The Bio Market at the Abbaye de Bon-Repos welcomed us again in the morning, with a lean mean band consisting of Paul Havell and Trevor Bennett. The afternoon grew hot at St-Aignan Chrysanthemum Festival with a superb turn-out of visitors, and Trevor and Paul played on and off all afternoon for our suppers (well our aperitifs and lunches anyway).  We forced samples of last year's and this year's product on lots of locals, who in turn insisted that we try their special brew, consisting of 1/4 kirsch, 1/4 grenadine syrop and 1/2 red wine. I have never heard of this being a local custom!

We continued through the week, pressing the last of the eating apples on Thurs 1st November, making about 100 litres of 'jus de pomme'. We kept them separate this year from the cider apples (about 90 litres).