Sunshine All The Way
A sudden rainstorm last night of tropical strength had the umbrellas out in spades so that from the roof of the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ sound editing van it looked as though Cambridge festival had been covered by a mass gathering of multi-coloured dancing tortoises.
People soldiered on in the rain though and jigged it in great style to Los Lobos and the Saw Doctors who gave of their very best.
A lovely sunny day here has done something to dry up the field and has lifted people's spirits quite a lot. I've just seen Mairtin O'Connor, Cathal Hayden and Seamie O'Dowd do a brilliant spot, followed closely by Lau who were simply amazing.
Bella Hardy (who also got up to sing with Lau) opened the afternoon session main stage with a lovely set based mainly around her new CD 'In The Shadow Of Mountains'.
I'm working my way round the field meeting old mates and making new ones and looking forward to seeing Paul Brady tonight. A long admirer of Paul's work - I'm really looking forward to seeing him live again. The last time I saw him do a live set was here at Cambridge a long time ago.
After Paul has left the stage it will be time for me and my producer Kellie to get in the van and work a serious few hours on this Wednesday's programme of the highlights of Cambridge Folk Festival 2009. There's so much great stuff that it's going to be hard putting the programme together.
I'll just have to gibber less.
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At 6th Aug 2009, BestDeeping wrote:Mike, after all the other brillaint acts on stage 1 on Sunday, you must have felt very disappointed with Paul Brady's set, and even more depressed if you stayed for Lucinda williams. Seems the more the volume was turned up, the lower the quality of the musical offering - Thank goodness for Watermelon Slim helping me leave the festival on a high.
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