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Desford Takes To The Stage - Scarecrow Festival 2025

The Desford Scarecrow Festival returned in 2025 with a theme of Desford Takes To The Stage, village residents took the theme and created a wide variety of interpretations from the well known plant from The Little Shop Of Horrors eating a passerby to the animal cast of the Sing series of films. The musical Wicked! was well represented as where the perennial favourites the minions. My highlights film begins with the famous plant before moving onto a Wicked! themed entry. Next up posters for a singing competition lead us onto a joint entry featuring various animal characters from the Sing films, moving on we see beetle-juice on the main street before its onto charlie and his great glass elevator. A selection of crocheted animals are on sale with the artist smiling behind before we move onto a game involving Pokemon balls and a song from Jigglypuff themselves. They famously said in War Of The Worlds the chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one, but still they come to Desford with a scene from the musical. Animal Farm represented next and a magician sawing a lady scarecrow in half !. The Circle Of Life is completed as a famous scene from The Lion King is represented and Eurovision runners up through the years are seen performing in scarecrow form. With performance a key part of the theme we end with a tribute to the late Prince Of Darkness himself Ozzy Osboure relaxing beside a front door "Sharron, they`ve made me into a scarecrow !".

























 

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