Crunchy ‘Nanas

Ah, music is in the air.

Summer festival music is most definitely here, and it is sweet. It started with some rocking sets by Ben Harper and Neil Young at Hyde Park at the end of June, with an added ‘wow’ factor appearance by Paul McCartney for “A Day in the Life”. The Fleet Foxes also played at the show, but I was disappointed. The sound kind of sucked for them, so I’d like to see them another time, possibly indoors. I think that would be better. At one point during the day, we found ourselves sitting behind a guy with a Peter Gabriel Warm Up tour shirt, and began reminiscing about the deluge that soaked us on that very field two years ago.  It could have been a bittersweet reminiscence, except for the fact that someone has her Saturday WOMAD ticket in her hot little hands, so life is good.

Oh yes, we are, once again, in countdown mode. Six months ago, Crunchy husband and I decided that this would be the year we finally made it to WOMAD. I’ve wanted to go to a weekend festival, and that’s one of my top choices. Three months ago, I started a fab new job that makes attending the festival a bit difficult considering it’s during school holidays. So I told myself it wasn’t to be, and quit checking the line-up additions online. And then about a month ago, Peter Gabriel announced he’d be playing Saturday for the Witness organization. So, about three weeks ago we bought our Saturday tickets.

I’m excited.

But, I was still a little disappointed because we’re missing Rokia Traore, who’s playing Friday night. (I stumbled upon her somewhere earlier this year and have never looked back. Her music’s beautiful.) However, as I mentioned, life is good. We trekked  it in to London yesterday to catch Rokia Traore and Rodrigo y Gabriela at the Lovebox festival. Both acts - amazing. So talented! It was great!

So, if you’ve been following this crazy train of thought, you might see that I still have yet to have my camping festival weekend. But, we’re piecing the music together and it’s been mighty fun!

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