The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #71059 Message #1224210
Posted By: Richard Bridge
12-Jul-04 - 08:05 PM
Thread Name: Ely Folk weekend 9 - 11 JUly 2004
Subject: RE: Ely Folk weekend 9 - 11 JUly 2004
What a splendid weekend.
John won the falling down race on Saturday, and I on Sunday. What a hangover I have today! I am so glad I am not the two young players who started on the "Double Vision" at 11 am on Saturday.
There was only one torrent.
I lost my small Shubb all by myself this time, with no help from John at all!
Some cracking young players - one I met really was convinced about the importance of the oral tradition (even if, like Jim Moray, he does almost everything on a computer). Maybe we are not dodos quite yet.
Some cracking older players.
A man with the loudest djembe I've ever heard (apparently drums for Peter Green, I'm told).
The only carp would be the relative (not absolute) lack of traditional singers.
For drone-driven hypnosis, catch a band called Nuada. Fascinating!