On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 09:16:37AM +0000, Cotty wrote: > On 2/3/08, John Francis, discombobulated, unleashed: > > > > >Not all that strange, really. If you look at the Fairport Family > >Tree (initially on the album cover of "History Of ..." but much > >expanded as the years pass) you'll see that Fairport have their > >contacts with an extremely wide-ranging group of musicians. > > One of the key attractions of the Cropredy Festival. They invite > musician friends old and new along and you get the most amazing mix of > music styles all on one field. The other attraction is the age range - > literally from 8 to 80. The venue is lovely, with the vent spilling out > into the village of Cropredy itself, which opens its heart to the event. > There is only one bar in the arena - nothing backstage - so artists come > out for a pint of Wadsworth 6X and can easily be bumped into for a chat. > I have see this nowhere else. The atmosphere is pretty good, highly > recommended.
It's definitely on my bucket list. I suspect I might even be able to score a backstage photo pass, if those are hard to come by - the band know us well enough to look for us when they play a gig in the bay area. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
