{"id":1149,"date":"2008-03-24T22:11:56","date_gmt":"2008-03-24T12:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=1149"},"modified":"2008-03-24T22:11:56","modified_gmt":"2008-03-24T12:11:56","slug":"national-folk-festival-canberra-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=1149","title":{"rendered":"National Folk Festival Canberra 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have returned from the National Folk Festival here in Canberra with a notebook full of tune names and a camera full of images. Great session, great concerts and a fabulous meeting of old friends &#8211; some of whom I hadn&#8217;t seen in twenty years!<\/p>\n<p>Highlights were: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the Vin Garbutt,  Genticorum and Trouble in the Kitchen concerts;<\/li>\n<li>getting up close and personal with a nyckelharpa<\/li>\n<li>playing sessions with Bob McInnes and Scott and Louisa Wise and Chris Duncan<\/li>\n<li>my Full Circle concert at the Merry Muse (maybe they&#8217;ll hire us next time?)<\/li>\n<li>playing a Dave Guscott violin &#8211; and buying Octave Violin strings<\/li>\n<li>the positive reactions I got to my pochette fiddle; and<\/li>\n<li>playing music with such wonderful people and meeting old friends<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can read the full write-up on my other blog &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/fourstrings.wordpress.com\/2008\/03\/24\/national-folk-festival-canberra-2008-2\/\"><strong>Fourstrings<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1148\" src=\"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/nff08mm1.jpg\" alt=\"Full Circle at the Merry Muse, National Folk Festival Canberra 2008\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Cheers<br \/>\nJerry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have returned from the National Folk Festival here in Canberra with a notebook full of tune names and a camera full of images. Great session, great concerts and a fabulous meeting of old friends &#8211; some of whom I hadn&#8217;t seen in twenty years! Highlights were: the Vin Garbutt, Genticorum and Trouble in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}