Dancers and singers from all over the world took part this year in the Tenth Billingham International Folklore Festival.
More than 500 performers from 12 countries including:
JAPAN-dances of the Samurai; ROMANIA - instrumentalists from Transylvania; USSR-dances and song from the Ukraine; USAexhibLtion square dances; PUERTO RICO - primitive bomba dances
Michael Rodd introduces some of the spectacular moments from this colourful, exuberant festival.
Television presentation TONY HARRISON (From Manchester)