Darling #Summerfolk43

The choir, in particular, was a highlight this year! Treassa is such a great teacher and leader. From the meaningful material chosen, and inspiring instruction that ignited passion, to the tips on timing and enunciation, while working out the melodies, was empowering!  And accidentally educational, to all who attended. It moved me to tears, more than once, to sing in such a spirited group, and I also treasure the tiny nuggets of musical education she offers individually. And, she orchestrated the honour as well to share a stage with Tragedy Ann, Mike Celia, Coco Love Alcorn, and Samantha Martin. I can’t tell you what it means to me have made eye contact with the the songwriter, especially, while singing my heart out, on one of her tunes, with all the other voices. It was very special, Samantha sang a line smiling right at me and I sang my line smiling right back to her!

I also had great fun at 3.5 sets Drew McIvor did. He is so charismatic, fun and talented, with equally gifted band mates Jaylen and JD. The song about Georgian Bay radio that a group sang with Drew and his kids stood on stage holding the banner was brilliant and adorable.

 I was certainly inspired by the way these folks approached it and want to do better for my recordings for next year. 

I did one lead in show and posted two tiny podcasts. Next year I will be doing much more pre-festival coverage, and I plan to do some post-festival programming on the radio show as well. #summerfolk43. I can't wait to edit back the segments I recorded with Rose Cousins, and Ben Whitely, who was playing with Sarah Harmer.

Here are some of my other thoughts:

Maybe Youth Discoveries acts like Ester’s Family could have more room in the program? Or in the media kit?

I would love to read the results of the greening audit. Did I miss hear Saturday’s MC explaining from the stage that only food waste could go in the compost? I read now that napkins and other garbage could go in but I guess the paper plates needed to go in as cardboard? I give myself a gold star for my reduce/reuse/recycle tally, because of my awesome smart planet dish that every vendor I attended was willing to make work for me! It kept hot things hot, cool things cool, and saved leftovers neatly for later and worked out so well I’m giving them as gifts this Christmas. They would make a great Summerfolk merch item, in my opinion…