Lavender's Blue, dilly-dilly...

We were out performing at Happy Valley Herb Farm today. It's been a few years since we were last there. What a treat it was to visit again! My former neighbour, Maggie, was married there today and hired Banquo to be wandering minstrels. It was a lovely time (how can it not in that space?!).

It was just three of us (Jude, Eric and I) performing instrumental music. We played a fair amount of O'Carolan, which is always a good choice. Everyone was happy with the music and loved our costuming. They even fed us, which was awesome.. the fare was really good. :)

We played for about 4hrs in total. After spending the afternoon in the sun and lavender fields, I'm ready for bed and it's only 8:30 pm as I write this.

Lavender's blue, dilly dilly,
Lavender's green
When you are King, dilly dilly,
I shall be Queen

Who told you so, dilly dilly,
Who told you so?
'Twas my own heart, dilly dilly,
That told me so

Call up your friends, dilly, dilly
Set them to work
Some to the plough, dilly dilly,
Some to the fork

Some to the hay, dilly dilly,
Some to thresh corn
Whilst you and I, dilly dilly,
Keep ourselves warm

Lavender's blue, dilly dilly,
Lavender's green
When you are King, dilly dilly,
I shall be Queen

Who told you so, dilly dilly,
Who told you so?
'Twas my own heart, dilly dilly,
That told me so

Me = Bad blogger

Wow. I've truly been a slacker on here. I've no excuse, really. I'll try to catch everyone up in brief..

Folkfest on July 2nd was an amazing experience for the band. What a treat it was to work with such dedicated professionals! Stage management had everything under control and I could go on for paragraphs about how fabulous the sound crew were. In a nutshell, they made it easy for us and made us sound awesome. They used a subwoofer on the dumbek which was literally a real stage shaker. That was fun. Weeeeeeeeee! *grin*

The performance itself went really well. We recycled our set from Fernfest, which has a lot of our up-tempo pieces and works well for a festival performance (less instrument changes, too!). It was really great to look out into the crowd and see people grooving. We closed the show with "a la mode de France" (aka Nonesuch) and people started dancing... it's just one of those songs.

One of Adam's friends was taking pictures using a professional digital camera, but I have yet to receive copies. I hope he does soon, as some of the pictures looked great..

Back to work at Elections BC on Monday morning. I received a call from them this morning offering me another full-time temp position until September 15th (the day before my birthday). There's a possibility of an extension so that would be a good birthday present. :P

I've been designing and building the new Belfry Theatre website and it's looking good! We're aiming to launch it on August 3rd.. I'm going to be a busy lad for the next few weeks. :-/