Port Fairy Folk Festival

Another year, another music festival for our troops. We stayed in Vicky this year and took em down to Port Fairy.
High points:
- The town of Port Fairy is beautiful: little bluestone cottages & country pubs, beautiful boat harbour. Hot weather and swimming with kids in gentle surf on Monday.
- The main street of the town is part of the festival and there's kids kids kids playing bagpipes, flutes...one little dude had a guitar with no strings but he had lots of curly hair and looked about 5. There are lots of more professional buskers as well.
- Glen Hansard's fuzzy red hair and beard, leading me to ask 'Pete honey, PLEASE grow your beard back'
- Glen Hansard's guitars all have massive holes in them because he thumps the living crap out of them when he plays.
- Arlo Guthrie reciting a moose poem. Will post seperately. High art.
- Glen Hansard was amaayzing. And hot. And made jokes about having watched the D Gen's 'The Castle' movie. They like our comedy in Ireland.
- Women in Song concert featuring Kate Miller Heidke and a fabulous singer called Ruthie Foster who completely won me over
- Did I mention that Glen Hansard played?


Low points:
- I think they sold too many tickets. in the arena area of the festival there were massive queses to everything.
- we had to queue with 2 small kids from 9.30 to sign up for kids activities. The sign ups started at 10am. The activities atarted at 1.30. That is not a relaxing festival experience.
To get to see Glen Hansard and Arlo Guthrie we grabbed seats in the auditorium where they were playing at about 4.00pm and sat there through a pile of artists (ducking out occasionally for food) till Arlo finished at 10.00pm. There were hundreds trying to get in. Not a relaxing festival experience. Kids were furious with us.

Dunno, some of these festivals are getting too big for their boots, methinks.

Our three year old was asked yesterday by his kinder teacher what the festival was like. He said 'I slept on a low bunk. I liked the Cocopops. My sister did lots of cartwheels'
All of which is quite true...