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Date: 10 March 2005 16:34:57
...and though I will be gone from here, we will never be apart"
From one of my fave Fairport songs written by annA rydeR about Cropredy, but it just seems to sum up the whole experience, of the festival and concerts generally. The feeling that its just one night, and then you have to go back to the real world, and its all over. But its not, cos when music, and the feeling it creates, touches you the way this does, you take it with you wherever you go. And as long as you have that feeling, and those memories, you never lose it.
This may not be the same for everyone, and certainly isn't the same for all music (!), but last night I felt it again. The people you feel you know even though you've never spoken apart from the odd word or two at signings. Five men who bring people together from all across the country by their music. But not just the music, the atmosphere created by their and our love for it. Its unbeatable. No matter what else is happening, difficult situations, piles of work, worries about the future, it all goes away when those chords begin to play. There aren't many things that can do that for me, not completely, things are always in the back of my mind. But not then, not last night, and it will be the same again in the evening of Saturday 13th August, in the middle of a field in Oxfordshire. If anyone is thinking of coming, I'll see you there!
Hmm, have gone all sentimental now, that wasn't where I thought I was going with this. Ah well. T'was a good night anyway, and much fun was had by all. Especially a slightly drunken Dave Pegg. :)