This page shows some photographs from our Summer 2002 tour to Stuttgart as part of the Landesgartenschau Ostfildern ....

Opposite we can be seen dancing on the SWR4 Showbühne (the main festival stage).

© Hans-Jörg Brenner 2002

A photograph of the two groups – the Folk Companions and the RSK Esslingen group.

The two who were missing .... Jochen Gutmann and Kerstin Schmidt-Gutmann – probably our furthest flung dancing members !

A recent "team photo" during our visit to the folk festival attached to Landesgartenschau near Stuttgart , ... (this was taken at an evening dance hosted by our friends of the RSK Esslingen group - unfortunately not all of the Folk Companions who went were there at the time).

Some photographs from the festival, initially in the sunshine, but later – well let's just say that we had lots of jokes about the English dancers bringing the english weather with them ...

“Constant Billy” with the big wheel in the background

James Cooke playing the drum under cover for the garland dances

The morris jig “Nutting Girl” with a very large xylophone in the background ! [Iain Gray (right) and Derek Andow (left)

A suite of dances which travelled across to America with the settlers – and then made their way back to England again.

Phil Craig performing a solo concert item for the SWR4 broadcast from the festival.

Now we were supposed to teach some English dances, the fact that it was raining very hard didn't put us off ...

... or the spectators either !

In the evening of the last day we danced with the RSK Esslingen group at a school in Sulzgries. Here they are dancing the Schwäbish Tanz Folge.

Some of the other groups at the festival

The excellent singers of Esslingen

An Austrian maypole dance

The musicians from the Scottish section of Tamburin Stuttgart

The traditional, impressive (and noisy) entrance of the Swiss group.

The folk dance group from the Technisches Hochschule in Munich.

A poor photograph (which doesn't do them justice) of a children's dance group that had travelled three days in a coach from the Baltic to get to the festival – and were still amazingly energetic and enthusiastic.