Lake Angels at Lago Santo 2009

Posted by editor on 8/12/09 • Categorized as lake angels

So the earth spins round the sun, the seasons change and certain traditions once more are kept. One of the once yearly appointments which a group of people look forward to with a healthy mixture of trepidation and anticipation is the annual trek across the mountains out of Tuscany and into Reggio Emilio – the Lake Angels Lago Santo outing.

Once a year a group of young (and not so young) men of Barga leave their respective partners and trek over the mountain out of Tuscany into Reggio Emilia to spend a night at Lago Santo. The Lake Angels are on the prowl.

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The Angels were celebrating their very successful Soul festival which took place last month where they managed to raise over 7ooo euro for the “Missione Kwizera 2009”.

La speranza di un futuro migliore per chi vive nella totale povertà, passa anche attraverso la generosità di chi, come voi, si impegna per il bene degli altri.
Grazie al vostro zelo ed al duro lavoro, necessari alla realizzazione del 2° Soul Festival Lake Angels, sono stati donati alla nostra Associazione la bellezza di 7.350,00 Euro (settemilatrecentocinquanta,00).
La somma, unita alle precedenti erogazioni, servirà al finanziamento dell’acquedotto di Kiruri che porterà il nome dei Lake Angels, finanziatori del progetto.
L’opera idrica verrà inaugurata in occasione della “Missione Kwizera 2009” che prenderà il via nei prossimi giorni e si concluderà alla fine di Agosto. – Il Presidente ASSOCIAZIONE KWIZERA ONLUS – a piccoli passi, cambieremo il mondo Via Cavour 37, 55027 Gallicano (Lu) tel. 0583 730440 cel.328 1888534
http://www.kwizera.it kwizera

As we reported that month, The Lake Angels Soul festival had a very definite change of colour. Their usual military style green and orange logo got a boost of some new colours in the spectrum. The Angels commissioned the artist Keane to prepare a new look to the Soul Festival and he has pulled out all the stops with a backdrop containing 50 painted umbrellas. Not content with just using those umbrellas as a backdrop for the concert, the Angels instead decided to take them up the mountain to Lago Santo

To get an idea of just what a Lake Angels outing is all about … have a read of Rupert’s article (here) written way back on 2002

Watch as the faces of the Lake Angels change over the years;| 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004| 2005 | 2006 | 2007, 2007 all on the forum |2008 |

Anybody with a copy of Google Earth on their computer can click on the link below to see exactly where the Lake Angels got to on the mountain

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