weekend music

Just like Folklife in Seattle, Port Angeles has the Juan de Fuca Festival of the Arts Memorial Day weekend.  The children's clinic where I work is a sponsor of the festival and as a result the clinic gets some sponsor passes for all 4 days.  Mike and I were grateful to get 2 of these passes, and we made much use of them, seeing a few acts every day for 4 days.

Our favorite acts were 2 bands from Portland.  I'm sad that I didn't partake of concerts much when I lived down there.  The groups are Circled by Hounds and Kevin Burke with Cal Scott.  Both are celtic influenced groups.  Great musicianship and entertaining.  Circled by Hounds had a set call The Tantrum, put together based solely on the names of the tunes: toss the feathers/smash the windows/scatter the mud/off she goes.  They also had a song or 2 in which they made use of pitchforks as percussion intruments.

It was also good to see that there is some culture up here.  Even with the Hood Canal Bridge closed, making it difficult to get to and from the Seattle area, let alone the other side of the canal, the festival was well attended.   It also helped the turn-out that it was the nicest whether we have had in a long time.  The sun just makes everything better.