Last weekend was the seventh Blues Festival held in our gardens, a bit of a change this year as we normally see this going on in August, so it was a surprise to see all the preparations going on in May, and this year even more marquee space for the Beer tent and the BBQ/food area - it all seem to work really well though and we saw lots of familiar faces back here - some of them camping and in motor homes in the gardens.
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| A festival 'old friend - setting the trend for festival fashion' |
The music for the day was great - for us ducks to get into a concert like this free of charge was an added bonus! The stage was all under cover and the tempo gradually increased as the day went on, a terrific mix of sounds and a wonderful team of artists, we loved them all!
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| The Steve Ajao Giants |
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| Dave Migden and the Twisted roots |
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| Sending everyone home on a high - The Official Recievers |
The festival also featured a lot of real ale and these went down a treat - there was not much left for Sunday and the barrels were pretty much empty at the end of the day ...I think this fella had not paced himself enough....
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| Lots of dogs came along to the festival and none of them chased us! |
All the Jinney Ring staff were a bit whacked out at the end of Sunday but they were clearly worried about the weather forecast as on Monday morning early the main stage tent was taken down very quickly and the other tents were seriously tied down - but not tied down enough as it turned out. Tuesday saw some incredible gusts of wind in the garden - they were blowing us around - look what they did to the bar tent.....
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| Upps ! |
It looked like a complete mangled mess at this point, but happily with the talented team in the gardens it it now ready for the
next (Folk) festival and more or less back to normal!
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