Where else can you find an Italian bluegrass band – "Red Wine" singing a bluegrass tune about Ireland! Listen to this on their MySpace or web page : Il Cielo D'Irlanda – one of my favorite tunes – great instrumentation. Sang along to John Prine, danced along to Dry Branch Fire Squad, Ricky Skaggs and topped off Saturday with Steve Earle playing with the Bluegrass Dukes as fine a set of tunes as you've ever heard.
Windy but sunny, crisp and cool in Northern California…two beautiful
days in Golden Gate Park. Festival was likely oversubscribed this year
– the crowds were crushing. Mary Tilson on KPFA mentioned this
afternoon that the estimates came in at around 700,000. Sound on the
Banjo stage was a little weak as you got towards the back.
Nonetheless, it was a wonderful celebration of music and the spirit of
the Bay Area. I took the long lens along for the ride and shot another
series of "Festival Faces" that are now posted on my flickr stream as a set.
As always, the setting sun at twilight in Speedway Meadows in Golden Gate Park is a magical hour of light and shadow – add music and it sometimes has seemed like something out of A Mid Summer Night's Dream.
MANORATHA 
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