People are very friendly here. Even the warning notices seem more like thought-provoking haiku poems ...
I spent this weekend ensconced at the Cobargo Folk Festival. It is a folk singer's dream place. The marquees are set up on a hill in the showground in Cobargo, and everyone camps at the bottom of the hill. All around are great green hills, studded with eucalypts and that tufty brown scrub stuff. And cows, and those sheep with the off-white wool and black faces.
And the people who were there were the most loving, supportive, and hugest crowd I've ever had outside of my Mountains home crowd. It was quite overwhelming ... I looked out during my first gig and saw a couple of hundred people absolutely beaming at me. Just lovely.
Apart from this very warm reception, my other favourite music moments were Mal Webb's thrilling gigs (I did actually nearly fall off my chair laughing) and The Fagans' harmony workshop ... singing in harmony in a room full of people is a really beautiful experience. I didn't get heaps of time to listen to lots of other gigs ... though I did love the Ellis Collective and Glover & Sorrenson ... because I was pretty busy with my own 3 ... and also did a kids' performance and a creative writing workshop during the weekend.
I don't have any photos, but the official photos will no doubt be up soon at the festival website.
Ryan has just rejoined me after a week in Melbourne with the Spooky Men's Chorale (if you need cheering up today, click here to Build Your Own Spooky Man, a game which he has recently designed. He he he!) We have a couple of concerts in Jervis Bay and Moruya this weekend before heading back to Melbourne for a bit (see picture at the bottom of this page for gig details.)
Our Sydney and Gosford gigs were small but fun, and we were greeted at the Clarendon with a very groovy home crowd. There are two things that have really hit home with me during the tour: firstly the unrelenting kindness and support of new friends, old friends and strangers (especial thanks to the Bowers at St Marys Church, the Bissets in Sydney, Claudine Walker, my folks and everyone who made it along to our gigs), and second, the possibility of some really unusual moments when you step out of your usual routine (thanks to Dianna Bisset for this pic!):
Yes, that is a wombat on the left. Spud has been cared for by Dianna since she was a little orphan tyke (Spud, that is, not Dianna), and has now been paired up with a bigger wombat so she can learn to be a wombat for real. And yes, that is a sitar ...
have a beautiful day
xx Kate
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