During June 28th to July 5th 2015, I performed at Festival of American Fiddle Tunes, which is taking place every year at the old military center, Fort Worden in Port Townsend, in the State of Washington, on the American West Coast.
It was a very nice experience with a lot of workshops, music, dance, and a hole lot of concerts for thousands of people, with the Danish trio Lydom, Bugge & Høirup, who are right now celebrating their first album together, and with my old friend and colleague, violinist and vielle player, Ruthie Dornfeld, who lives in Seattle, and who is respected as one of the local stars, at the festival.
Here is a link to a video from the festival, featuring Lydom, Bugge & Høirup.
Amongst the more established names we met ver fine, and also awsome people like Rodney Miller & Sandy Bradley, Bruce Green & John Haywood, lisa Ornstein, André Marchand & Normand Miron, Jamie Fox and many, many more..
All in all a wonderful and, by the way, very hot week, at one of hte most inspiring and well arranged festival, that I have been at, with this very special mix of workshops, jamsessions, dance and concerts.
In the festival program I am mentioned as “One of the world’s most respected rhythm guitarists”, and even though this is probably quite an exaggeration, it is great to perform at a festival who describe you with a certain enthusiasm!
By the way: one of the big hits at the festival was “Ingela’s Waltz”, that I wrote in 2008. It was good fun to experience it being played for dancing one evening by a team of about 35 students, and to see how well it was recieved by the dancers, musicins and by the audience. Thank you to all who were involved, for giving me that great experience. I hope that I will have more of those during the coming years 🙂