We drove down to the Tönder Folk Festival on Friday to see Lunasa. Fine weather in southern Sweden but unfortunately lots of rain and mud in southern Denmark. We missed Lunasa’s gig on Friday evening as we arrived late. We did see Paul Brady’s band, but they were so loud we had to leave the Tent as did many others. Why must they play so loud, are they hard of hearing? We’d just finished a session on the Saturday afternoon and we saw them do a live acoustic set and interview for som Danish TV film crew at the side of the pub we’d just played in. They played really well, and it’s always good to hear Kevin Crawford play some tunes. Kevin played both his Grinter and an aluminium tin whistle. Cillian had a little problem with his chanter reed as it was extremely humid and they were sitting outside the Tönder pub. Played inside with my pipes and flute and didn’t have any problems. We saw Lunasa again at the Sunday afternoon celidh concert in Tent 1. There they played with members of DeDanann. It rained heavily and there was thunder & lightning all afternoon just about.
DeDannan
Was that DeDannan or DeDanann?
Saw Crawford play with Mick Conneelly (and Tony Linnane) last year just before Mick became Alec’s new Frankie (they were joking all night about it). On the other hand, saw Frankie and his outfit too recently, he played the flute on the night too.
Also saw a new outfit on Saturday, Hayes, Cahill, O Raghallaigh, O Lionaird and Bartlett. The Gloaming. Great.
Hello Peter, yes it was DeDanann with Mick on fiddle not DeDannan 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-G3v34atzz4&feature=related
http://www2.tf.dk/pages/page.php?id=19&set_menu=19&setLanguage=english
Have been there thursday and friday, but left saturday early morning for a gig back home. Had a nice session thursday night, have been too tired unfortunately to stay up longer than 3am. Weather was horrible from thursday night on, after seeing Lúnasa on friday night I went back to me tent (Festivalvej 35!!! and I arrived early on thursday! Fricking luxury campers reserving their spots and entire “Festivalvejs” beforehand and not coming before saturday…so lame…) to take a nap before the session night…but on my journey through time and mud, I got drowned in a thunderstorm rain so badly that nothing on me was dry anymore, including flute case, mobile and purse. So I decided to put meself into my sleeping bag and ignore the water dripping from my tent’s leaky ridge onto me, my clothes, instruments and food till 7:30am in the morning, when I packed the drippin’ wet gunge into the car boot and drove off.
Note to meself for next year: be a frickin luxury camper.
“Fricking luxury campers reserving their spots and entire “Festivalvejs” beforehand and not coming before saturday…so lame…) to take a nap before the session night…but on my journey through time and mud, I got drowned in a thunderstorm rain so badly that nothing on me was dry anymore, including flute case, mobile and purse.” Gabriel.
I sympathise with your plight Gabriel. I’ve never experienced such terrible weather. I hope your flute remained dry. Our tent kept us dry and my partner being a lady and sensible had wellies and proper rain gear with her. I being a bit of a dandy had special edition Lacoste sneakers and G-Star cargo pants. I soon became encrusted with wet mud and started to freeze. We were camped out in Siberia as far out as you can get as we came late Friday evening. We drove the car onto the field in the dark not realising it was already waterlogged and were worried Saturday morning about how to get the car off the field. We found a high spot for the tent just by luck. Seems like the Danes book their camping spots months before the festival starts. We booked our tickets Friday afternoon. The sessions were good though, people actually tuned to each other and were friendly and laid back We’d stopped going to Tönder since 2007 as the acts were becoming less Irish and Scottish folk, and becoming more bluegrass, folkrock with the emphasis on rock, and singer-songwriter heavy. We’re not fans of Tim O’Brien either and he’s there every year.
weather sounds like Tönder, always need warm and rain proof gear just in case 
very sorry to hear it was THAT wet and miserable this time round. We could not make it this year so at least we did not have to freeze like you, helps a little getting over of not going… Hope to see some of you next year again.
Greetings
Brigitte