Wellyfest
Wellington Folk Festival updates, Tim O'Brien in New Zealand
10/09/09 21:23 Filed in: Wellyfest
The timetable for the Wellington Folk Festival
(subject to change) has been released. We're on the
stage on the Sunday, at 11:45 am. You can be awake by
then, right? I know, sometimes it's hard after the
all night sessions. Work on it.
Just a note about Tim O'Brien's upcoming tour of New Zealand, which is to include Wellyfest. Go see him. Find when he is playing in your area and GO SEE HIM. See http://www.timobrien.net/sched.cfm for his schedule. The world would be a better place if we were all getting more TIM O'BRIEN.
Just a note about Tim O'Brien's upcoming tour of New Zealand, which is to include Wellyfest. Go see him. Find when he is playing in your area and GO SEE HIM. See http://www.timobrien.net/sched.cfm for his schedule. The world would be a better place if we were all getting more TIM O'BRIEN.
Overdue updates
01/06/09 15:16
The gig at the Leigh Sawmill on May 15 went GREAT.
Nearly everyone we know turned out, it seemed. At
least, the place looked pretty full to me. We had a
great time playing. I felt like we were all really in
a groove together. Maybe someday they'll have us back
again.
Also had a great time at the Jane Gifford celebration in Warkworth. Well done to the organisers.
The photo page is broken. Sorry. I'll rebuild it soon. Richard Smallfield, a GREAT local photographer, took some shots of us at the Mill, and I'm hoping to get permission from him to put some of them up. They are beautiful, almost ethereal.
Had an AMAZING time at the Waharau Winter Shake-up over Queen's weekend. What great fun! We played so much music, and got to play with so many different musicians, people we've known a while, and new friends. Very special was getting Emily Giles of Forbidden Joe to sit in with us on "Summerfly" and backing up Lorina Harding on her song "35 Below." What a treat. The whole weekend was just like a big bottomless bowl of candy for us, and we're already looking forward to next year. Kudos to Rosie Holmes who, year after year, puts on this great "party" for 125 of her closest friends.
We're playing at the Matakana Farmer's Market this coming Saturday, and going to see Lorina at her CD release concert Saturday night, so it'll be a full weekend for us. We'd love to see you at one or t'other!
Further down the track: we are dangerously excited about the prospect of playing as "special guests" at the Wellington Folk Festival, which is being headlined by TIM O'BRIEN.
Nat and I head back to Colorado with the kids on June 26th, we'll be there for 2 months. I'm looking for a bass I can borrow, so if you know of one, please let me know. I am attending Rocky Grass Academy Bass Camp this July, in Lyons, Colorado. VERY excited about this.
Also had a great time at the Jane Gifford celebration in Warkworth. Well done to the organisers.
The photo page is broken. Sorry. I'll rebuild it soon. Richard Smallfield, a GREAT local photographer, took some shots of us at the Mill, and I'm hoping to get permission from him to put some of them up. They are beautiful, almost ethereal.
Had an AMAZING time at the Waharau Winter Shake-up over Queen's weekend. What great fun! We played so much music, and got to play with so many different musicians, people we've known a while, and new friends. Very special was getting Emily Giles of Forbidden Joe to sit in with us on "Summerfly" and backing up Lorina Harding on her song "35 Below." What a treat. The whole weekend was just like a big bottomless bowl of candy for us, and we're already looking forward to next year. Kudos to Rosie Holmes who, year after year, puts on this great "party" for 125 of her closest friends.
We're playing at the Matakana Farmer's Market this coming Saturday, and going to see Lorina at her CD release concert Saturday night, so it'll be a full weekend for us. We'd love to see you at one or t'other!
Further down the track: we are dangerously excited about the prospect of playing as "special guests" at the Wellington Folk Festival, which is being headlined by TIM O'BRIEN.
Nat and I head back to Colorado with the kids on June 26th, we'll be there for 2 months. I'm looking for a bass I can borrow, so if you know of one, please let me know. I am attending Rocky Grass Academy Bass Camp this July, in Lyons, Colorado. VERY excited about this.
Wellington Folk Festival
27/10/08 11:33 Filed in: Festivals
There’s a huge difference between playing music for
people who really don’t care for bluegrass and only
asked you to come because you’re the only band in
town (and cheap), and playing in front of people who
are there to LISTEN and who actually LIKE bluegrass.
For starters, you feel a lot less crappy.
Man, we had a good time at the Wellington Folk Festival. We did not take many photos. But the ones we did take are on flickr.
Friendly people, beautiful location, fantastic organization, terrific guest artists, great jam sessions, horrible weather (hey, if it was all perfect it would be boring). We’re so glad we went, we will most certainly go again.
(written and posted by Jenine)
Man, we had a good time at the Wellington Folk Festival. We did not take many photos. But the ones we did take are on flickr.
Friendly people, beautiful location, fantastic organization, terrific guest artists, great jam sessions, horrible weather (hey, if it was all perfect it would be boring). We’re so glad we went, we will most certainly go again.
(written and posted by Jenine)