Festival Highlights

Time for a bit of reflection on Cropredy folk festival which we attended last weekend. It is a three day festival organised by Fairport Convention and their management team and although predominantly a folk festival has grown to encompass other music genres. 

There are approximately 20,000 people attending and the music is all on one stage. 

In recent years they have had Robert Plant, Nick Harper, Jethro Tull, Yusef and Dreadzone. This year the biggest names were Status Quo (who were also surprised to be asked to play a folk festival), Rick Wakeman (a thoroughly decent chap who was kind enough to shake out hands and let us grab a photo with him) and the amazing, best band in the world, Little Feat!

Little Feat are one of our favourite all time bands so it was amazing to get to see them again. It was a sad event however as Paul Barrere announced during the gig that their drummer, Richie Hayward, had passed away the day before. We were aware of his illness and that he was not touring with them but it was a shock and so sad for all of them.

They played an amazing set and we yelled extra loud to show our appreciation of their performance and presence and after the gig we went to get an album signed and got to shake all of them by the hand. I didn't say much, I didn't know what to say really so I just thanked them for an amazing performance and said what a pleasure it was to meet them.

I am not really bothered about autographs but we bought an album we did not have so we had something to give them to sign as that's what they were there for but to actually have got to meet them and shake their hands was a magical moment.

Anyway I thought I would share a couple of my favourite Little Feat songs that are not perhaps so well known from Representing the Mambo. Enjoy!

Ok scrap that! They are not on You Tube (sounds like a job for Dancin' Fool) in the meantime here is Texas Twister from the same album.