Abstract:
The performance started some days before the wedding ceremony with the Town Dragon, made by the children of Blaenau Ffestiniog, sitting and waiting under a canopy for a suitable dragon to arrive in the town. In the morning a New Dragon came down from the mountain above the town and made its way to the Miners Institute. There a ceremony took place where the New Dragon proved them self worthy of the Town Dragon the characters on stilts. At the end of the ceremony the stilted characters paraded the New Dragon around the town. The Town Dragon (with eight children inside) then processed around the town in the afternoon on the way to the ‘wedding’ ceremony. The ‘wedding’ took place on the town football pitch after which there was a celebration outside the town hall and a meal.
