Subject: BS: Walnut Valley Festival (Kansas - US)
From:
JohnInKansas
Date: 03 Sep 12 - 08:21 PM
Although it's far too late to be of much use for people to organize much of anything, I haven't seen a thread about the Walnut Valley Festival for 2012.
The critical item of information is that "Landrush," when everyone tries to get a place to camp for the festival, will be on September 6, 2012.
As I'm too far behind to do a proper post, I'll only note that there are links to prior posts and related information in the thread for last year, at Winfield 2011
A few posts down in that thread, there are links to "many" of the prior year threads.
Many people who really want their favorite campsites will already have been down there for nearly a month. We've burned out on the fightin' and feudin' associated with that exercise, so we plan to arrive after the dust settles on the day of Landrush, and expect (hope?) to camp in the East campground, most likely somewhere behind the red horsebarn. If you have a large camper, it's probably best to get there by Landrush, but of course there's always room for "day visitors" and/or "tenters," or even small Campers/Travel Trailers.
This is "officially" the 41st year for the festival, commonly called "the WVA Festival" for the "Walnut Valley Association" that sort of runs it. The location is at the County Fairground in Winfield, Kansas, about 40 miles southeast of Wichita.
It appears that there are several performers on the schedule that we're not very familiar with, which could mean that they're trying to bring in some newer talent, or that they're just too broke to afford the usual big names. It could also be because we spend all our time pickin' in the campground and hardly ever go to one of the scheduled performances, so we just haven't heard much about what's going on. (If they want to pick with us, the performers can come down to the camp - and several of them have!!!! We have gotten somewhat acquainted with some real winners that way.)
[Quite incidentally, this festival is where I (briefly) met Art Thieme a couple of times, and I can assure you that bodily harm - and/or intensive educational duress - may result if you say "Who?" in our camp when the subject comes up. And IT WILL. We remember.]
Check the previous thread (linked above) for where to get details, until somebody gets the energy to do a proper post. And maybe when it's all over some of us may have glorious tales to tell here about what happened this year.
(Trace this thread, perhaps, if you think you'll have some good lies stories later.) (?)
John
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