First a few basics. It's free! It's a five day event that takes place in three venues. The opening show is on Wednesday and it's a ticketed event. On Thursday afternoon there is music at the Brick Street Stage. On Friday and Saturday afternoon there's music at the Brick Street Stage and in The Crystal Theater - concurrent shows - take your pick. All three nights have performances at the Pastures of Plenty outdoor stage. There is $15 parking for this. Afternoon shows run from 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM and then there's an hour and a half to have dinner and get to the outdoor stage. The closing event starts at noon on Sunday in the old Crystal Theater. They call it a hootenanny! There is no schedule. Any performer can show up and do one song. That show was worth the trip and we almost skipped it to start the trip back home. All-in-all - the whole thing was very well organized! During the evening performance there was a 30 minute or so stage changeover but that was the only bad mark on it. (There are many other events throughout the town during the week.)
We saw and heard lots of performers, some we knew nothing about, and we really enjoyed them all. Not enough room to talk about all of them. I'll just do it in pics. (I'm beginning to master stage photography with my new lens but the Crystal was really challenging with hot spots and colored lights. The mike for the soloists was in the white spotlight but only one of them used it. Twenty minutes early got us aisle seats on the second row on the right side of the right aisle - was able to take most of these shots without moving. )
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| At the Crystal Theater |
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| Ellis Paul on the "Pastures of Plenty" stage |
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| Glynda at the Woody Guthrie homesite. They are going to rebuild the house |
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| Me at the Woody Guthrie mural. I wore a "Wildernest Musicfest" t-shirt both days! |
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| Joel Rafael |
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| Butch Hancock |
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| Susan Herndon |
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| Barry Ollman |
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| David Amram. Incredible 80+ man. Know him from Kerrville He's also a classical composer and conductor. The backup musicians on stage were in awe twice. Once when this guy sat at the keyboard and sang a song as he was composing it. You knew that was true because it was referencing happenings at the Woodyfest as well as the musicians onstage at the time. |
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| Audrey Auld |
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| Bob Livingston. In Texas music forever! |
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| Burns Sisters (I think) |
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| Andrew Hardin |
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| Radoslav Lorkovic - this was the other time the musicians didn't know what to do. He was singing a Serbian folksong. |
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| Dan Duggin. Had to do a lot of Googlin' to find this guys name. He was a stage musician but this is my favorite of the almost 300 pictures I took! |
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| Butch Morgan |
