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Peace Hour at the Bristol docks waterfront, by Marie-France Riboulet
27 July 2009

What a stormy windy day it was, what dreadful weather, all that rain and wind...there was me thinking that the sun must come out for such a lovely idea, playing my concert harp for world peace, surely I do deserve some beautiful elegant warmth and then it just buckets down in Bristol. It felt like all the clouds have been saving up their pain and anguish at us humans for being so cruel, greedy and grasping at the world resources and to each other.

So on account of the weather I decided to change the venue from Queen's Square, one of the largest residential Georgian squares in Europe to the undercover area near Pero's bridge along the Bristol docks waterfront and had some posters put up in Queen's Square advertising this. I also wore my winter boots and the warmest white clothes I had in my wardrobe, which did include a silk scarf!

Peace Hour wasn't cancelled and I played my concert harp for an hour and had many passers by.  My candle wouldn't stay lit on account of the wind.  People stopped and listened, some tried to give me some money but I explained that I wasn't collecting, some were very touched and surprised.  A friend took a video of my playing, and it was very wet and windy. People were interested by what was going on and clapped at the end of each piece played.  A young man asked me if I would accompany him to a song that he was wanting to sing but we both agreed after a while that a harp doesn't quite sound like a guitar!  Another asked me how long I had been playing, oh just 35 years....
 
For the half way meditation I played "Imagine" by J. Lennon and asked the audience to visualise peace expanding in our troubled world.
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