In The Pink

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...

Well I am almost caught up on sleep after the past few days! Not quite ready for the big festival post though! It was such a great event and I thought of loads of things I want to record about the three days but I do not want to rush it and this is a quick stop by only! I have noticed that although it is the 16th August I have only made 4 posts this month! And I expect that trend will continue throughout the rest of August and September as we have a lot on. It is all good stuff and we are very excited. I might just have to come back in November and make a summary post about the whirlwind that was late summer into autumn! Well I am going to have to take the pups for a walk, they never tire!

I will fill in the details in the next post, right now I am catching up on sleep! What a blast!