Word Art Newsletter - 1 July 2008
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Hi, and welcome to this week’s Scraps of Mind Weekly Word Art Newsletter.
Last week’s newsletter trickled out over a couple of days. Hopefully this week will see us back at full strength and firing on all cylinders.
And best wishes to all USA readers for your Independence Day celebrations.
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The Kilmore Celtic Festival
The last weekend in June is always a standard booking in my calendar for the Kilmore Celtic Festival. Hence the Celtic theme to this week’s Word Art.
I enjoy Folk Festivals as a matter of principal. They always have a great vibe and I get to hear some wonderful and diverse music from acts I would not be able to watch elsewhere. But the Kilmore Celtic Festival is always special for me.
The event starts on Friday evening with a dinner and a free Celtic Old Time Dance and ends on Sunday with a Celtic Banquet including entertainment from a number of the Festival performers. And in between there’s Saturday!
Saturday is the main game. Starting with the traditional Poets’ Breakfast from 8am, the Festival performances start rolling out across three venues from 10am till 7pm. Followed by an evening Concert featuring many of the Festival headline acts.
Allan and I shrugged off our ‘morning afters’ following my niece’s 21st party the night before, bundled ourselves in our Winter woolies in preparation for the traditional Kilmore Festival weather and headed up the Hume Highway for our folkie fix.
We fueled up on a magnificent breakfast at the Old Town Hall Restaurant and launched ourselves into a day of excellent Celtic music, browsing through the Festival market, wine tasting and a general good time.
There were a lot of new faces at this year’s Festival. A number of up and coming acts with a good sound but still needing some stage polish to round off their performances as well as some of our old favourites.
Celtaclysmic was one such new young act that should really shape up well with a couple more years festival experience under their belts and a long time favourite of mine called Bric a Brac was back and as always, a joy to watch and listen to. They play music from Brittany (no not Spears, the Celtic province of France). And they have a great act, which is not at all harmed by the lead singer being really cute and having a French accent that can melt your bones. Strangely he seems to have no effect at all on Allan.
And another new act that we really enjoyed was Saoirse; three girl singers and a guitar accompanist who sang in the Gaelic as well as treating us to a couple of displays of Irish Tap Dancing.
But great though all the acts we saw were, the highest accolade for the day would have to go to a brilliant presentation in the evening called Lochaber No More which was a history of the Jacobite Rebellions and the Aftermath in narrative and song. It was written and narrated by Alyson Fearon and the songs were performed by Braemar (another favourite act of ours). It was an amazing show and really put context around so many of the songs we have been listening to over the years. It was so emotional and I think I became Scottish somewhere like 20 minutes into the performance, it was so moving. I suspect it will be performed at other Celtic Festivals around the country (Australia) and possibly overseas. So if you get the chance to see it, I highly recommend you take the opportunity.
And we rounded of an excellent day by heading off to my sister Elaine and Greg’s place (they live 10 minutes from Kilmore) for a scrumptious dinner and a few wines. Does that sound like a perfect day, or what?
So if you happen to live in or around Melbourne I heartily recommend that you mark the last weekend in June in next year’s calendar and get yourself along to the Kilmore Celtic Festival. If you can’t make it for the whole weekend, get along for the Saturday. It’s a great value day, and maybe I’ll see you there.
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Highlights from Scraps of Mind
We took a look at silhouettes and how they can be used by both paper and digital scrapbookers to give your photo subjects some different context for your scrapbook layouts.
In last week’s Texture Tuesday, Wildheart showed you how to make a foil and a snakeskin texture in Paint Shop Pro.
June wrote a great Guest Article on how to used scanned objects to create elements for your scrapbook layouts.
And don’t forget, my door is open to anyone who would like to write a Guest Article on any scrapbooking related topic and see it published on Scraps of Mind. If that sounds like you, you can find out more here.
Finally a really important one for all of you who subscribe to newsletters. How to ‘white list’ your emails.
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