Saturday 28 May
2016
Slept
in a bit (relatively speaking) then over to the festival.
Ginger
needed to catch up with a number of musicians whom she wants to
perform with her in her set tomorrow afternoon, and to practice with
them, as well as to practice with Brian when she plays onstage with
him tonight to premiere his song on the Green Album.
The
Green Album is one of the major reasons for this festival.
Danny Mullikin, leader of Tuatha Dea, got over 14 major artists to
write and perform original songs for this album, and 25% of sales
will go to the Rainforest Project. This festival is the release party
and 12 of the artists are here and will be performing their tracks
tonight, Brian is one of those artists and he invited Ginger to play
whistle with him on his recording. (She is very excited that although
not a 'featured' artist, she is represented on this work.)
We
spent the day letting her practice, shopping at some of the many
vendors' booths, and I sat at the booth selling her CDs.
This
picture exemplifies the feel of the festival...this unidentified
musician was strolling across the field, playing for her own
enjoyment:
At
last the big moment performing with Brian arrived:
After
other groups performed, we left relatively early to get rested.
Ginger is playing a number of songs with Brian in his big set
tomorrow at 10, and then has her own turn on the big stage at 1pm.