So as you can tell this is a two blogs in one day kind of day. I guess I feel that it's so due for one that I need to do one to some up last week, which was the folk festival.
Dreams came true.
Wednesday I only stayed for the wailing jennys. I had no desire for emmylou harris and my parents said that I didn't miss much. The wailin jennys were pretty good. Those ladies can sure harmonize. Some parts it's just so perfect that I get the chills. I'm for sure going to need their new CD!
Hoots and Hellmouth was really the newest exciting band for me. I also owe my dad one of their CD's for his birthday present! It's three guys playing a little bit more high energy kind of Avett Brothers style music. Oh yeah did I say high energy. They are very excitable. They were awesome because they were just everywhere. I think they are at the stage where they have the ability to just hang out around the festival and connect with fans as well as enjoy the music as well. They just all seemed so down to earth. In fact, I was watching the william elliot whitmore (great name) concert and they were just hanging off to the side of the stage, and at another workshop they were doing for the same, but that workshop was for a very different genre from them.
The best night for me would have to be the thursday....The Avett Brothers. Generally with most bands I'm not familiar with many of the acts that are coming and I become a fan after seeing them. I have been a fan for a length of time now. Seeing them live was so good. I had to squeeze past so many people to be tightly packed into the front part of the standing area. THEY ROCKED IT. It was amazing to be in a crowd of people that have actually heard of them as well!! All the songs they played were so good. (Hence the blog title)
Before the concert started I was sitting with Allison Enns who is my friends older sister and we have known them from church. All of the sudden Charlie rushes to the tarp demanding a camera. Turns out he had back stage passes and had seen the an Avett brother, and so he went and introduced himself and they even walked in a half embrace for a few paces. I don't even know how he could live anymore. He will never wash that shirt...upon his return later to the tarp I could see faint traces of tears behind his eyes. Perhaps I could even say, he was a bigger fan than a 13 year old girl seeing Justin Bieber and sending death threats to any other of his potential love interests. So anyways...sorry charles, I stole this picture from your facebook!
I have also been listening to the Avett Brothers a lot lately. I feel like I want to write a song, and so I have been listening to lyrics a lot more lately, and the Avett Brothers songs are just so smart and so original.
So anyways...the rest of the weekend does not compare with the majesty of the Avett Brothers but I guess I owe them a little bit of credit...ha ha ha
Saturday I was not feeling so great, and so I didn't go to the festival until later. But I went and saw a workshop including Delhi 2 Dublin (world beats), Arrested Development (Hip Hop), and Konono No. 1. Konono I did not enjoy. It was very monotonous, typical african and they were playing the finger piano, which I don't really enjoy. (*Side note...I heard them on UMFM the other day and they were not bad on the radio) But it was weird seeing my dad listen to Hip Hop...and further more enjoy it! We all danced up a storm. That night I spent more time at the alternative tent so that I could see more delhi 2 dublin. So So fun. I didn't want to sit around to swell season. And then we finished the night with a couple jigs from the peatbog faeries.
On Saturday Another favorite band...a favorite from before (in fact I was telling people they were my go to Band if I had to stay in and study on a saturday night) the Cat Empire was playing that night and I could not miss it! I even went to the dance area myself and snuck through. I was just annoyed at this dumb 15-ish year old girl falling all over the place. I felt that she was one of those people finally away from parents and has had her first sniff of alcohol. Like I can understand that it's a cramped area. It's not like I've never been to a crowded bar before, but girl you gotta get ahold of yourself! Cat Empire has also just released a new CD in June and so I was able to hear some of the new songs from that and they were a lot better than the last album they released.
Sunday, the only person that I was really getting excited about was no not Sarah Harmer, I am so sick of hearing about her new CD!! She is so typical canadian singer. good voice but not exciting...although I did love how she is very active in working to save the niagara escarpment upon which I live and so she sang a song about that and my mother and I let out a little chear for that. The opening singer though Gord Downie had really good stage presence, and he make a remark about the G20 dealio that just happened in toronto, about how for about 7 seconds toronto had sympathy from the rest of Canada! Andrew Bird really was the highlight of the night and I'm sure he is much better live than in CD because he puts on such a show. It's just him up on the stage but he loops his music so he ends up accompanying himself and creating his own beats.
One thing I've noticed though after seeing concerts and my parents then purchasing CD's is that the real show is SOO soo much better!!
Something completely unrelated. A couple weeks ago I went to go see Sex and the City 2 with my cousin. I don't care the reveiw the movie (which did have the most beautiful clothes), but I felt so good about myself because in the preview.
Another problem, why do American's all think Canadians talk with accents. I find that aside from the Maritimes and Ottawa-ish area we are all pretty non-regional. Like...I don't say a-boot. I'm not from Ohio.
Sorry...I guess I had finger diarreah (instead of verbal?)
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