Members thankyou Posted May 23, 2007 Members Share Posted May 23, 2007 I'm headed for the Kerrville festival next week. Anybody else? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil O'Keefe Posted May 23, 2007 Share Posted May 23, 2007 One of my clients / musical partners in crime, John McGill, was a finalist there a couple of years ago. I don't know if he's planning on going there again this year or not, but I don't think so. I've never attended, but it's supposed to be a great festival - have a good time! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jamsession Posted May 23, 2007 Members Share Posted May 23, 2007 I've been a few times years ago. It is rather primitive camping. I don't think it has changed much. Folks show up early to get a nice campsite, otherwise you will be pitching your tent on a hill. It is usually very hot and humid in the day and cold at night. If you are camping it is the rainy time too so most likely everything you bring will get soaking wet if you aren't well prepared. The 2 showers have cold running water only. Bring your own food. There are some rules regarding cups, trash and such but check out their website for their specifics. At night, after the shows are over, the campfires start and one year I went we jammed around a campfire with the likes of Gary P. Nunn and Steven Fromholz and Shake Russell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members sventvkg Posted May 23, 2007 Members Share Posted May 23, 2007 One of my friends is a finalist this year. http://www.myspace.com/emilykurn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rasputin1963 Posted May 24, 2007 Members Share Posted May 24, 2007 Kerrville is only 30miles away from me... I used to play there in the earliest days of the Festival.... the late-1970's! I accompanied the folk singer/songwriter James Durst, on my Fender-Rhodes 78 Stage piano. In those days it was pretty much "stoned hippies standing around in the mud". I don't know if it's different now. I know that Paul Stookey and Peter Yarrow of PP&M fame are real mavens there and hold court at times. Judy Collins, too. When I played there, the names were not "big ones" at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members deanmass Posted May 24, 2007 Members Share Posted May 24, 2007 I was looking at the site today. I started off looking for the http://www.swangathering.org/, thinking about going this year. Sean, I listened to her stuff...She is right, a bit Iris Dement, but a bit wavery, so I think that is where the Dolly Parton references comes in...I liked Piano Hands best. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil O'Keefe Posted May 24, 2007 Share Posted May 24, 2007 One of my friends is a finalist this year. http://www.myspace.com/emilykurn Congrats and good luck to your friend! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members thankyou Posted May 24, 2007 Author Members Share Posted May 24, 2007 Thanks for all your replies. Sean, I like your friend's songs. Reminds me of Dolly Parton among others. Dolly's underappreciated as a songwriter. Jamsession and Rasputin, I have friends from Austin who work the festival every year and have a permanent RV spot, so I can stay with them. Thanks, though, for helping me get pumped for this. I love to jam. I'm having some travel anxiety as I often do, but this is something I've wanted to do since the seventies, it's just a long way away and I could rarely get vacation around any holiday. Dean, thanks for the link. We're thinking about building a house made by an Asheville company, Deltec. Check them out. And Phil, I'll check out your colleague- link didn't work the first time, but that was probably on my end. Your recommendation is golden. If I ever get my Duke to Dak tour put together, and I make it to Cali., lunch is on me. I almost moved to Austin in 1979. It's a road not taken that I still think about. I wanted to get into the songwriters' or blues/roots guitar workshops, but family events are keeping me home for the first part of that first week. I did sign up for the harmonica seminars in the second week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jamsession Posted May 25, 2007 Members Share Posted May 25, 2007 The news is reporting 5 inches of rain in Kerrville in the last 24 hours. I hope you are doing ok out there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rasputin1963 Posted May 26, 2007 Members Share Posted May 26, 2007 Yep, it's poured solidly here for two days now. "So RAI-I-ISE yer candles HI-I-I-IGH.... Oh, if ya do we could stay dry against the RA-I-I-I-I-IN!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members thankyou Posted May 26, 2007 Author Members Share Posted May 26, 2007 I'm not there yet, so I won't be singing Who'll Stop the Rain?, which came from Fogarty's Woodstock experience. I leave next Thursday and should get to Kerrville Friday afternoon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rasputin1963 Posted May 27, 2007 Members Share Posted May 27, 2007 1:00am Sunday morning the 27th... and it's still pouring... hard.... big, fat raindrops. God knows our water table can always benefit from this downpour... but--- gasp!---- The Festival!?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BeefStewBoy Posted May 28, 2007 Members Share Posted May 28, 2007 If this keeps up Medina Lake might actually have water in it again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rasputin1963 Posted May 28, 2007 Members Share Posted May 28, 2007 If this keeps up Medina Lake might actually have water in it again. I see you're from around here! [soapbox=rant] We have so many rich yuppies moving up to the Texas Hill Country (Boerne, Kerrville, Fredericksburg, Blanco) and building their palatial homes and sprawling golf courses everywhere... but nobody's thinking too much about how these will imapct the local water table.... sucking away all that pristine limestone spring-fed water. Appalling greed in Texas and too few dissenting voices to the encroachment of the nouveau-riche. [/soapbox]. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jamsession Posted May 29, 2007 Members Share Posted May 29, 2007 . Agreed. Developers are ruining Texas. It is time to get out. But to where? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rasputin1963 Posted May 29, 2007 Members Share Posted May 29, 2007 Back to California? or to China or Brazil... everyone says they're the wave of the future, because their whole energy/communications/urban development infrastructure is necessarily new, potentially newer than that of the "developed countries". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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