Foggy Hogtown Boys playing Bluegrass.
Last weekend Victoria Park hosted Sunfest Festival. This weekend it was the turn of Home County Folk Festival. The weekend after next it will be Rib Fest. In between there is Rock the Park. Some of these are fund raising events, some are commercial ventures, some are free of charge to listen to. One is always tempted to consume large quantities of varyingly tasty foods - but that would not benefit a charity. Home County Folk Festival was free of charge for the music, including their big act, Bruce Cockburn.
The maestro's guitars.
One of the many commercial enterprises.
Your own low seating is a must.
Foxtail having a good time with Bluegrass.
Bruce Cockburn, the star of the show, in front of 12,000 spectators.
More useless pretty things to indulge in: candles.
We spent most of Saturday at the Festival. In the afternoon we just had a peek, listened to the Bluegrass Bonanza and Truth or Dare with Lynn Miles, Colleen Brown and Claire Danaher. Then I spotted Bruce Cockburn on the front cover of the festival's programme. I bought a CD of his once, the instrumental one, Speechless, 2005. I only knew him as a string artist, not a singer. But as I had spent money on one of his albums and had liked it a lot, I was determined to watch the man life in concert. Was he a big name? I had no idea, but a hunch that he might be.
Thus I decided that in order to be close to the stage, it would be worth arriving early: at 5pm we were seated not 10m from the main stage. And there we stayed. Listened to one act after another, Kristin Sweetland, Old Man Luedecke (we liked him a lot), Foggy Hogtown Boys (they had been better in the afternoon - fresher somehow), Lynn Miles (also was better in the afternoon in collaboration with the other singers) and finally Bruce Cockburn. Yes, he can still play those guitars, and it sounded great. The protest songs were novel to me - but not to the rest of the audience who kept on shouting that they loved him. I thought it had been worth waiting for him. At 11pm we went back home, full of sounds and songs.
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