Port Fairy Folk Festival

In addition to having crazy dreams about cycling up massive hills, to prepare for Tasmania, I spent the long weekend attending the Port Fairy Folk Festival: full of bands I'd never heard of before. This did not matter too much because I now have many new music loves Like this one: TinPan Orange. Plus bonus cute, dancing kids in the foreground.

Other musical highlights of the weekend include:

Shooglenifty (amazing instrumental band...that man can fiddle like no other. and the mandolin player! (why so serious?)

April Verch Band: a stepdancing fiddle player, what more could you want?

The Little Stevies - folk/pop fun

Celtaclysmic: with a 16 yr old wonderboy banjo/mandolin player!

The Waifs - the only band I'd heard of beforehand. So good! After listening to them live, I'd say my harmonica playing needs a little work!

Mr. Ew Sheep (aka Be) and her friend, Lou, came up from Warrnambool to visit. It'd been an entire 3 days since our last reunion in Melbourne, so we were two very happy EwSheeps. She is now pedaling across the center of Australia (Port Augusta to Darwin)...good luck Mr. Ew Sheep!!

My lovely, folksy companion, Tash and I enjoyed the beach each morning on our way to musical goodness.

All in all, a very lovely weekend. Well, aside from these three things:
-lack of dancing vibes, hello Port Fairy, you are a folk festival, where are your dancers? But even though we were often dancing with only a horde of little kids, all was made up for when 10 people got up to dance to the last song of the Junes (after they begged and pleaded for us to dance) and a man in his 50's boot-scooted across the floor. When you can't pull off the worm, try the boot scoot!
-over-priced ice-cream. Tash begged me to put blueberry ice-cream on top of my chocolate scoop so she could have some. Berry ice-cream is not something I normally do, but I am a good festival friend and obliged. Never again! "Boring with a bit of blah!"
-so much cross legged sitting. Ouch, ouch.

But now it's on to more serious things. Like getting Goat into tiptop shape (ie: make sure those brakes are A-okay!) Tasmania cycling adventure starts this Friday. Yippee!