Pace Eggers Band

 I've been asked to help with a Easter/ folk celebration called the pace eggers band, a trad folk celebration by an arty friend.

I thought I'd document it here as its an extention of the costumes I worked on in the last project and contains all elements of my research put into action.

It's a community project in a community garden in Sneinton. Kathryn Cooper is leading and I'm heading up the music/ costume side.

We are focusing on the Trad pace eggers play and extending that into a celebration of spring. Leading with trad folk, and related folk but no religious aspect.

The fox and pigeon feed into this as urban wildlife found in the community gardens.

Below is some history of the pace eggers

Along with documentation of the project in progress..

Obviously we won't be doing the black face part of the custom. As with many traditional customs some things do not translate into modern times. The origin of the black face make up was rooted in ideas around disguise and often in mining communities was to mimic the miners, but, sadly, some of the use of it was in a derogatory way. So it's important to avoid any hurtful practices as we carry these customs forward as an inclusive, community celebration.