This is a depressing post. At least for me. Why you ask? Well, I found out some fabulous news. But due to my other fabulous news (my new - full-time - job) I don't think I'll be able to go.
STRINGBAND AT THE FOLK FEST!
But alas! They are not mainstagers (pah), otherwise I'd just buy a ticket for that night and go see 'em. Smaller daytime shows means I would be able to follow them around for the full three days (ahem, Joel Plaskett/Pokey LaFarge/The Burning Hell/Graveyard Train - that was a couple years ago. I can still relive that most excellent time! But it always makes me sad cause I wasn't able to go last year, and probably not this year either). Except I would be working!
http://joelplaskett.com/
http://www.pokeylafarge.net/
http://www.wearetheburninghell.com/
http://www.graveyardtrain.com.au/
Also, a bunch of other cool peeps are in the lineup, one of which are local favourites (I like 'em! I'm local!) Maria in the Shower. The first time I saw these guys (two of them busking on the island) they were playing most of my favourite instruments - upright bass, accordion, trumpet, stomping, and singing (now you may guess which are my favourites). Yes, two dudes were doing all of those at the same time. Needless to say, their music as well as performance really left an impression on me, from the time they caught my attention as I was walking past to the end of their show when the singer/accordionist/trumpet player/stomper said "so and so on bass!" and the guy hopped up on his bass and played while balanced on top of it.
http://www.mariaintheshower.com/
And of course, I already missed Jeff Mangum, Nick Cave, hopefully won't miss Camera Obscura, and have no hope of seeing NMH now that they're touring (and not coming here! Or anywhere near here. Even if they came to Seattle...)
Ah well. If wishes was water we'd all be drowned, as someone (probably from the Redwall books) used to say. RIP Brian Jacques.
Man, this is getting more depressing than I thought!
No more of that from now on!
