by Keith and Heather Nicol
With a partially
new line up including an old favourite Valdy, we decided to head down to the
Filberg Festival again on Saturday, August 1. Filberg Park is a perfect venue with
lots of shade trees and an ocean setting so despite the forecast of 29 C and
sun we felt that we could easily keep cool while watching the performers. We
started with Eric Harper on the Garden Stage (right by the ocean) and he played
a good mix of guitar pieces with a
flamenco flavour. Next up was Valdy on the main Rotary Stage and it was
standing room only for this well known folk singer. He sang lots of his newer
material but also included some of the songs he is best known for like- “Rock
and Roll Song” and “Passin’ Through”. Valdy
is well known as a fine song writer and he seems to be able to write about a
song about just about anything.
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| Valdy was certainly a crowd favourite |
The last
performance we saw was John Mann who is another great song writer. John Mann is
the well known as the front man for the popular band Spirit of the West. He put
on a powerful performance with songs about his recent medical issues as well as
songs about his wife and daughter. Also a reminder that the money raised for from the Filberg Festival goes to restoring and improving Filberg Park and Lodge so come out and take in the great music and arts and crafts displays. For more information on the Sunday , August
2 and Monday, August 3 line up of artists and performers at the Filberg
Festival see: http://filbergfestival.com/
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| John Mann gave an energetic performance at the Filberg Festival |
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