{"id":321,"date":"2011-08-04T08:29:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-04T11:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alexsings.ca\/welcome\/lunenburg-folk-harbour-festival\/"},"modified":"2011-08-04T08:29:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-04T11:29:00","slug":"lunenburg-folk-harbour-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alexsings.ca\/music\/lunenburg-folk-harbour-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Lunenburg Folk Harbour Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tomorrow I perform at Lunenburg Folk Harbour Festival<\/a>. For me, this is The Big Gig.<\/p>\n

You see, I think of Folk Harbour as my home festival. I attended (as a member of the audience) for the first time in 1987. Yep, 24 years ago. I was 16, and the festival was just two years old.<\/p>\n

I bet most of the other teenagers there had been dragged by their parents, kicking and screaming, but not me. Archie Fisher and Garnet Rogers<\/a> were headlining and I could hardly wait to see them perform.<\/p>\n

My friend Steve and I went together. I remember sitting under the mainstage tent being treated to the finest folk music imaginable – less than half an hour’s drive from where each of us lived. What I remember most clearly is a feeling of enchantment \u2013 especially when Archie and Garnet played Witch of the Westmoreland, fulfilling my greatest hope for the evening.<\/p>\n

There have been other Folk Harbour experiences since that one. After I moved away to Toronto, I tried to plan my summer visits to co-incide with the festival, and I’ve heard some great music on that mainstage, but my first night at Folk Harbour remains the most special.<\/p>\n

On that night in 1987, I had absolutely no idea that I was going to become a singer-songwriter when I grew up. More than 20 years later, I released my first cd and one of the first places I sent it was to Folk Harbour’s programming committee. Tomorrow, with the same stars in my eyes that were there when I was 16, I’ll step up on that mainstage and sing my heart out.<\/p>\n

I can hardly wait.<\/p>\n

More details for those of you coming to the festival:
I’ll be playing on three stages tomorrow (Friday, August 5):<\/span>
1pm in St. John’s Anglican church as part of a blues workshop with David Myles<\/a>, Thom Swift<\/a> and Harry Manx<\/a><\/span>
4pm at the Bandstand – a half hour solo set<\/span>
8:15 (approximately), I’ll be on the mainstage for a tweener – just one song – between the 2nd and 3rd mainstage performers<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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