Folk Fest

Well, Gually and I made it back alive from the Folk Festival. We camped from Wednesday the 9th through Monday, the 14th. This was apparently the worst weather in recent Folk Fest history. It was cloudy Thursday, rainy Friday, gusting wind Saturday, and a beautiful hot day Sunday that suprised and sunburned us all. Saturday was so bad, in fact, that we spent the whole afternoon in the tent instead of at the fest, but we made it out later for the evening program.

Fest favorites were Balkan Beat Box, which is a hip-hoppy take on klesmer, D.J. Rekha with bangra hip-hop, my personal fav Geoff Berner, an accordian player who pleased the crowd with his song about the Vancouver Olympics called, "The dead, dead children were worth it". Mr. Berner prefaced the song with a story about how the government of B.C. chose to close down a childrens' coroner's office, amongst other things, in order to finance the Olympics. Nanci Griffith was good and Ray Davies was amazing; never realized all those songs were Kinks songs.

Camping in the site next to us was a chick named Liz who came up to hang out around our fire one night. She's a former environmental scientist who is now a professional corset maker. First time I've met one of those. I think we feel we made the right choice in camping at the Bird's Hill campground instead of the festival camping, where the party rages nonstop.

Gually's friend Karen took a picture of us in the beer tent, and if I get a copy from her, I'll post it, since we took no pictures ourselves...as usual.

I cordially invite you all up for next year's festival!