Amazed to find it is 6 years since I first attended this festival. This was my 3rd year as a steward and my shifts were such I only really missed seeing Manran, but they were so flipping loud that may have been a blessing. 'I SAID IT MAY HAVE BEEN A BLESSING, DEAR...'
Stand-outs for me were Lizzie No (fantastic!), Rye Sisters, Slack Bird (Finnish weirdness), Rebecca Hearn, Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne, The Fugitives, Cider with Molly (should have seen The Haar really). Next comes Blue Rose Code, Campbell/Jensen and Daoiri Farrell trio. Kathryn Tickell and Rhiannon Giddens were fantastic musicians but somehow didn't get me very excited.
At some point on one day I wore: sandals, shorts, trainers, trousers, t-shirt, vest, fleece, sun hat, rain poncho, factor 50 sun cream, woolly hat, gloves, sunglasses. A typical English summer then. Another total rain-lashing but no thunder/lightning, and I still ended up with a pink nose.
Great to meet up with Wendy and Steve, who I'd met for the first time at Beardy last month.
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| Red sky at night was a shepherd's big fat fib in our case. |
