I’ve noted with interest that 1) a lot of good posts regarding festivals have been popping up on the board lately, and 2) that most of the traffic on the Annex/Matrix site is now focused not on the Matrix, but on the other pages I put together regarding teachers, tutors, sessions and recording/abc files.
The one gap I’ve been wanting to plug is a page on the site listing festivals. I’ve only started going to them and love them, but most of the festival databases on the web are just that…listings. I’d like to try adding a page on the Annex that lists the festivals you’ve been to (with all the usual address and website stuff) but also with your reviews/assessments of the festival…what you liked about it and whether its worth it for other Chiffers to burn their frequent flier miles and precisious vacation days to go.
So this is as good a place to start as any. If you are aware of some really good festivals, please post some info about them here or email to me directly. I’d like a website to the festival if there is one, and your review of it. I think adding the reviews would be an improvement over whats currently available on the web from other sources.
P.S. If there are any festivals that really sucked, I’d list those too…I’m not trying to flame a festival, but if someone had bad experiences or if a festival is not measuring up, that information is as valuable as the good info.
Nowoodstock Music Festival, August 10th and 11th, Ten Sleep Wyoming (population 350 if you count sheep and deer).
It’s a pretty small festival, but surprisingly good music for such a tiny venue. Lots and lots of music, Saturday and Sunday, dawn to way after dark. Everything from Bluegrass to Cowboy poetry to Scottish fiddling to whatever it is my band does.
Free camping in the mountains just up the road, hotels, RV parks, great fishing, hiking and climbing nearby, good food, nice people from all over the west and elsewhere.
My band, Bitterroot, will be playing both days, just to keep it from getting TOO classy, I guess.
Highly Recommended–last year was the first one and it was a hoot! More info on the way.
Dazed…
Just a suggestion on structure:
You might want to group the festivals into few sets:
Weekend Festivals - 1-3 days emphasizing performances, demonstrations, vendors, and maybe a few sessions.
Music Camps - week long festivals emphasizing workshops, classes, and sessions.
Short/single day workshops - emphasizing a relevant topic, instrument, or genre.
There would probably be some overlap, with many of the week long camps ending in weekend performance type festivals. Often workshops are integrated into some of the weekend festivals. Multiple listing of the same events could focus on the accents of each grouping.
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Enjoy Your Music,
Lee Marsh
[ This Message was edited by: LeeMarsh on 2002-06-11 13:06 ]
You might make the distinction of the kind where you can camp versus the kind where you pay to attend each concert. I don’t know, maybe this isn’t quite clear on my part, but I have been to a festival, which was a series of concerts at a Performing Arts center.
Very different than tents and winnebagos and jam sessions. The former is usually much more expensive but a “festival” nevertheless.
Good ideas, all. Yes, my first festival here in florida was a “camp” style festival at a state park that also had a number of nice outdoor stages. Of course, the real show was at night at the tents.
I still say we need a yearly Whistle specific national whistle gathering, to include, but not limited to: clinics, makers, vendors, concerts and sessions, food, and of course…beer.
We need Whistle Fest!!!
Hey, every other instrument has this sort of gathering, why not us? (Okay, that last bit was rhetorical, I know all too well why we don’t have such a thing…)
