Sunday, July 18, 2010

Home County

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It's the annual free Home County Festival in Victoria Park.

Pictured at left is Ron Hynes, the man of a thousand songs, who was there this year. The first time we've ever seen him play. We were introduced to his music through the song "Sonny's Dream" when we first heard it on the Prairie Home Companion sung by Jean Redpath. It's one of those songs you'd swear was written by anonymous -- it's just that classic.

Locals the Rizdales (from London) and Rant Maggie Rant (from Stratford) where there as well.

We like to go to the afternoon workshops/song swaps. There are evening events on the big stage but we prefer the sunny afternoons listening to music under the trees.


Saturday, July 10, 2010

Rant Maggie Rant

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Rant Maggie Rant are a Stratford band with a big Celtic influence. We've seen them a few times and have some of their music on CD. They're very good.

The pictures in this album are from an afternoon performance at the St Marys Heritage Festival which is held in downtown St Marys (where we live) every year for a weekend around early July.

We enjoyed their performance.