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Winnipeg Folk Festival 2010 has come and gone. It truly was a spectacular event! Although with children, we weren't able to catch a ton of adult musical acts, the family fun area was just that: family & fun. The flying Bob guy's pretty nuts! I found a new great artist, but not one that was at the festival. "The Tallest Man on Earth" was playing in a girls car that was waiting in that excruciatingly long line to get into the pack up campground. "united steel workers of montreal" were great live! I really liked the singers growl of a voice. Their recorded stuff's not so hot, so I'll have to see if I can track down a live bootleg somewhere.
We camped out with some magnificent creatures, all sharing and caring, and being great to the Jones'. The delta shade held up well. It's going to be a FF staple I do believe. Need a theme though for next year, to bring campers to us (Kara and I are kind of bound to the fire, with the two kids sleeping in the tent behind us).
As far as stories go:
Glow-stick badminton was the best use of glow sticks this year (glow net, glow rackets, glow birdies and glow people) and the smiley face man with the changing facial expressions.
Caught up with my old old pal Jake, random folk fest style (Girl: "Hey, can we share your fire with you?" Me: "JAKE LYSECKI?!!!") and we got caught up on old times. He told me things about my infamous gravol story I'd long forgotten. I told him things he'd never heard before.
Stumbled upon (while giving a right-proper folk fest tour to some FF virgins) one of THE best jam sessions I've ever seen. It's really too bad that I had to go pee, otherwise we could've sat there forever. There were about 15 instrumentalists, 5 singers, and they could stop and start on a dime, and sound good doing it! I hope I stumble across them next year as well. They'll be parked next to what was formerly known as "homemade jam".
I was thinking for a theme next year possibly: Airplane steward/stewardess's & tour guides? It'd be super freakin' rad to build a big papier-macher airplane that people could "ride" in, with a tour guide walking backwards in the front. When the plane's not in use, it could probably easily be hung from the delta shade for night time fun. I think a "safe" tour guide would be a beneficial asset to lots of people enjoying the festival. Just need to invest in walkie-talkies for homebase check-ins.
362 days to go! I need more pennies at work here to get the countdown reset.
Next trip is the Herbster family reunion at the end of July in North Bay, Ontario. 29hours each way. Should be good times. Then the Harvest Moon festival in September. I'm really looking forward to that one too.
We camped out with some magnificent creatures, all sharing and caring, and being great to the Jones'. The delta shade held up well. It's going to be a FF staple I do believe. Need a theme though for next year, to bring campers to us (Kara and I are kind of bound to the fire, with the two kids sleeping in the tent behind us).
As far as stories go:
Glow-stick badminton was the best use of glow sticks this year (glow net, glow rackets, glow birdies and glow people) and the smiley face man with the changing facial expressions.
Caught up with my old old pal Jake, random folk fest style (Girl: "Hey, can we share your fire with you?" Me: "JAKE LYSECKI?!!!") and we got caught up on old times. He told me things about my infamous gravol story I'd long forgotten. I told him things he'd never heard before.
Stumbled upon (while giving a right-proper folk fest tour to some FF virgins) one of THE best jam sessions I've ever seen. It's really too bad that I had to go pee, otherwise we could've sat there forever. There were about 15 instrumentalists, 5 singers, and they could stop and start on a dime, and sound good doing it! I hope I stumble across them next year as well. They'll be parked next to what was formerly known as "homemade jam".
I was thinking for a theme next year possibly: Airplane steward/stewardess's & tour guides? It'd be super freakin' rad to build a big papier-macher airplane that people could "ride" in, with a tour guide walking backwards in the front. When the plane's not in use, it could probably easily be hung from the delta shade for night time fun. I think a "safe" tour guide would be a beneficial asset to lots of people enjoying the festival. Just need to invest in walkie-talkies for homebase check-ins.
362 days to go! I need more pennies at work here to get the countdown reset.
Next trip is the Herbster family reunion at the end of July in North Bay, Ontario. 29hours each way. Should be good times. Then the Harvest Moon festival in September. I'm really looking forward to that one too.