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Mainstage was highlighted
tonight by Martin Sexton who put on one of the best performances of the
festival. His first encore was 2 (or 3) songs, then he was brought out
for another encore. He finished up with america the beautiful.. Tremendous
voice, tremendous talent... If you have a chance, catch the webcast of
his performance tomorrow night at www.kerrville-music.com...
All night long the mainstage hummed... Chuck brodsky was excellent starting
off... Juliet turner turned it up another nitch. Juliet is from ireland.
SHe was in the irish threadgill night a year or 2 ago. her album just
wnet platmun in europe. Catch her if you can... I had to get bread in
and out of the ovens, so i missed ray bonneville and valdy, but heard
they were both super. Martin sexton was followed by the duffy bishop blues
band, and the evening is finishing up with trout fishing in america.
They poured the concrete for the new showers in back of the kerr-tree
store complex. There will be 2 hot water, coin-operated showers, and 6
cold water showers.
Forgot to tell everyone about the changes at Chapel Hill... That old sort-of-shade
thing with the trees/boughs/misc stuff has been torn down, and they've
put up 12 tall poles. This festival they're hanging tarps from them to
provide more shade, but there will be something more permanent in the
future.
It's amazing how much we forget, being here for the entire festival There
are people arriving on the ranch today who are kerrvirgins. people who
have never been on the ranch. While we're on day 17 of the festival, and
have experienced all the ebbs and flows of the energy that runs through
the ranch during the course of the festival, this is all brand new Day
1 to them..
I managed to get to chapel hill today for the ballad tree. It's been getting
the short end of my priority list.. But, after listening to some of the
excellent stuff being played there, you remember why you try to be there
all the time... great stuff from people you will never know... and people
you will know... you just "never know"...
There were plenty of people and energy on the ranch last night. However,
song circles were fewer than expected. It seems to me that there are a
lot fewer players on the ranch than one would normally expect. So, the
audience was here, the show was in short supply.. There were campfires
and music all around, but the abundance of singer/songwriter types from
the first 11 days of the festival was no longer in evidence, at least
in the lower meadow...
People are talking about teardown, it's 8AM in the morning and i've woken
up already. Starting to organize my stuff to make the process easier.
Boy, it was a lot more fun getting here and planted WITH someone, than
it is plowing up and packing the homestead alone.
Coming to you direct from the Kerrville Folk Festival in Texas
Brian (Breadman) Wolfsohn
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