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Chapter 28 Small Town Greer

Ye Kai was on a bus bound for the small town of Greer. There was only one bus on this route every day. Fortunately, Ye Kai came early today, otherwise he would have missed it.

After he returned to the hotel last night, he planned his itinerary for the next few days.

Since Riverdance will be performed in Dublin on October 10, Ye Kai is free to arrange his travel itinerary before the performance begins.

Why go to this small town called Greer?Because when he returned to the hotel last night, Ye Kai found the leaflet given by the old man in his pocket.

This is the Potato Festival held every year in the small town of Greer.

The Potato Festival is not a national festival, not even well known in Ireland itself.It was just a small local festival, but it still caught Ye Kai's attention.

It's not entirely because of the old man's invitation, nor is it because Ye Kai likes to eat potatoes. He is curious why there is a festival for potatoes. Is it because everyone eats potatoes together?
Or a potato beauty contest?

But do those, really matter?When you meet a festival in Ireland, it's over in the past.

I don't know if all developed cities are rich.

All coaches in Ireland are luxury buses, even for short one-hour rides, with enough room to sleep in them.

Greer arrived an hour and a half later.

Still in the car, Ye Kai heard the sound of Irish bagpipes, the appearance of this instrument was ugly to Ye Kai.He has three parts, a large leather pouch that is held under the arm.

Then there is a mouthpiece, which is placed in the mouth to supply air to the skin bag, and blowing air makes the skin bag inflated.

The last part is like a flute Xiao in China, with several air holes, pressing or releasing these air holes according to the fixed fingering can change the note of the Irish bagpipe.

Does anyone still use such an ugly instrument?

Of course there are.

Because it is a rogue instrument that can continuously produce a Mongolian Khoomei sound and can also produce harmony.And the timbre is low, mournful, with a unique sound quality.

It may be that Ye Kai is used to Chinese aesthetics. In short, he is used to traditional Chinese musical instruments that are full of beauty, but he is not used to these large and complex musical instruments.

Bagpipes can be seen in all activities in Ireland, and they have become a unique symbol of Ireland just like harps and whistles.

After crossing the river, the car stopped at the edge of the town.

I heard that every city in Ireland has its own river, and even the name of each river is different. Ye Kai doesn't want to go into it, but there is indeed a river here.

The town is 100 meters away from the river, and this distance is a beach with a width of 100 meters, and the sand is very fine, as if it is by the sea.

Foreign children are really happy, let alone small towns in Huaxia, even some cities don't have such good sports venues.It is really wonderful to play on the beach, bask in the sun, and swim in the river.

From a long distance, Ye Kai saw a huge canvas erected on the beach, on which was written the 36th Potato Festival in Greer Township.

Hundreds of people have gathered below, and the sound of music is also coming from there.

Listening to the cheerful music of Celtic folk songs, even an introverted person like Ye Kai wanted to dance, moving his body to this rhythm.And now the Irishmen were dancing.

Ye Kai clicked the shutter and recorded their happy smiles.

A child suddenly shouted: "Foreigners!"

Everyone's eyes fell on Yelai, and even the music stopped, making Ye Kai feel like a little sheep fell into the territory of lions.

Soon, a shout sounded.

"Welcome foreign friends to join our Potato Festival, yo ho!"

"Let's keep jumping up! Huh!"

The music resumed, and the rhythm became faster. Men, women and children danced one after another, but no one paid attention to Ye Kai, the guest.This situation was completely unexpected by Ye Kai.

The girl playing the violin stood up, kept her hands on her hands, walked lightly on her feet, and jumped to Ye Kai's side like an elf.

"Come on, let's dance together."

"But I won't."

The rhythm of her playing the violin was not chaotic at all, and there was an expression of disbelief on her face, as if to say: My God?Some people can't dance.

"Kang busy, follow me, I will teach you."

Humans are social animals and have a herd mentality.

The more similarities, the greater the impact, that is, everyone is dancing, and if you are not dancing, you will feel awkward, and then you will dance along, which is called in psychology....

"What are you in a daze for?" the girl asked.

Ye Kai came back to his senses and said, "It's nothing, how can you teach me."

"Left foot to right, left. Take it back, right foot, left, right, right. Lift your leg..." She was playing the violin in her hand, so she didn't teach Ye Kai how to do it.

[Saoirse is teaching you to dance, you learned a little jazz dance]

Can this learn skills?
Ye Kai recalled jazz dance.

This moment seems to have crossed time and space. In another time and space, Ye Kai learned jazz dance since childhood, but gave up half of it.Many actions cannot be performed.

Saoirse was still thinking, and her feet moved slowly: "Raise your legs? Why are you in a daze again?"

"I seem to have learned it before." Ye Kai said.

He danced, ran to Saoirse's side, and danced to her rhythm and pace.This dance step can be regarded as a universal dance step in jazz dance. It only needs to control the speed of the dance according to the rhythm of the song.

"You fool me?"

"I swear, I really forgot just now."

Saoirse snorted and pulled the violin hard, making a long note.Then the whole band stopped as if they had been whistled, and looked at Saoirse.

"If you can dance this song, I will forgive you."

She played the violin again, and a series of rapid and rhythmic notes came out, and the band understood it and began to play this famous Celtic folk music.

Morrison's Jig.

It's too fast, how many notes are there in one beat?
But no matter how difficult it is, I have to dance. I am here to participate in the festival, not to spoil the scene. I offended the band when I first came, and I am afraid that I will be kicked out by them at that time.

When Ye Kai took off his backpack and the camera and put it aside, everyone cheered, applauded or shouted the rhythm, cheering for Ye Kai, and also beat the music.

Then they surrounded the city with Ye Kai and the band in the circle.

A general level of jazz dance is enough for most music, but if you want to complete such a difficult song, a simple rhythm is definitely not enough.

If the universal template cannot be used, it means that Ye Kai needs to make up a dance by himself.And this dance also needs to fit Morrison's Jig.

A long-haired drummer in the band shouted: "Let's dance."

(End of this chapter)