Captain Banjo’s Street Band went down a storm at the Pilton Green Man Festival with its individual blend of audience participation, rocking traditional folk tunes and fundraising collections for the children’s hospice, North Devon.
Despite the constant threat of rain (and a few actual showers) the crowds turned out in great numbers with Pilton Street, Barnstaple packed throughout Saturday afternoon providing great opportunities for the many traders, street performers and band performances on the three stages.
Many more were enjoying the ambience of Morris dancing, band performances, craft demonstrations and stalls in the grounds of Pilton House. With as much emphasis on things for children to do as well as adults, there was certainly something for everybody.
The Reform Inn, Barnstaple, spiritual home of Captain Banjo’s Street Band, was packed with keen festival goers determined to drink the barrel dry with loads of beers to choose from provided by proprietor and brewer of Barum Beers, Tim, for the North Devon Beer Festival and served up by Nayomie Worth beer maid extraordinaire whose amazing knowledge of the beers made her extremely popular with Captain Banjo’s Street Band (seen in the photo Nayomie to the left and Tim on the right of Captain Banjo).
With the huge popularity of the Pilton Festival putting a strain on local car parks, bongo drumming member Helen, proprietor of the Crossways B & B (possibly the best bed and breakfast in Barnstaple) kindly allowed some of the band members to park in the gardens of her B &B.
Were you at the Pilton Festival? Did you have a great time? Did you see Captain Banjo’s Street Band? What did you think? We’d love to know and welcome your comments below so we can get better and raise more money for limited life children at the North Devon Hospice. We look forward to hearing from you 
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Hi Rob. Well what a weekend it was! Still in recovery mode;-) I was wondering if there is any chance you could e-mail me the original photo of Dave with his fist in the air whilst we were playing the OY song at the top stage (first spot on Sat.) I have downloaded the reduced version off of Picasa but would like the full size pic. I’m hoping to enlarge it as much as i can and put it in the pub for all to see.
Many thanks.
Jay.