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| Street performer, Woodford Folk Festival 2003 |
You know you’re in for amazing music, warm country hospitality and some gourmet eats and drinks.
It’s always hot, sometimes wet. But always hot.
We’re heading up the Hume with dread in our hearts tomorrow, though, after the latest weather forecast of rain, and lots of it. Cold, ditto. Hmm, will it be like the 2002 Cropredy Fest in the UK, which is the only time that wellies became my closest friends? The festivalgoers huddled in their bivouacs, comforted only by the music and the excellent ales served from shining taps under a luxurious marquee. Come to think of it Woodford does a good dramatic outpouring of rain.
Looking forward to Backsliders closing at the Blues Stage this weekend.
Talk about good music, I’ve had a couple of great nights lately. Tuesday with the ubertalented Jimmy Stewart at the Gem, and Sunday with the final judging of the Melbourne Blues Appreciation Society’s 17th Blues Performer of the Year contest. The previous Monday I’d basked in the reflected glory of fellow judges Phil Manning and Max Crawdaddy for Heat 1. And the winners came from our shift – Sweet Felicia and the Honeytones will be going to Memphis to compete at the International Blues Challenge in February 2011. But that’s not to say the others weren’t good – what a hotly contested prize.
Anyway, time to dust off the wellies and get packed. See you for the Cup!
