Saturday afternoon session at the Dorrigo Folk & Bluegrass Festival 2018

Last weekend I was at the Dorrigo Folk & Bluegrass Festival and I took a 360 camera with me. There was a little session going so I set my camera down next to action a got a great little set of what to my inexperienced ear sounds like Cherokee Shuffle.

About half way through the group was joined by Hunter Beasley (Charlie) and Luke Wright (Jensen) of band Charlie & Jensen who were performing at the festival. The video is below. Its a 360 degree video so you can 'click and drag' on the video to 'look around'.

The Mandocello Luke Wright is playing in the video got a lot of attention on the weekend both from those who wanted to know "what is that you are playing?" and those you knew it for what it was - a 100 year old Gibson Mandocello.

I'll post more on Dorrigo Folk & Bluegrass Festival and Charlie & Jensen soon. But for now here is the video:

Current I'm:

• Setting up the blog.
• Listening to some music
• Reading some more about Folk and Bluegrass
• Writing some posts.

ShadyWinds - A Folk and Bluegrass blog by a guy you who doesn't now much a about Folk and Bluegrass but knows what he likes.

What purpose does a blog have anyway?

There are many blogs and websites made by people who know a lot about the blogs subject. Some of these sites have wide readerships, some don't. According to one statistical news source for tech stats there were around 350 million blogs on just one common hosting site alone in 2017. Who is reading most of them do you think? I suspect that most common reader on at least 349 million of them is: The same person who is writing them. So I have to wonder what is the purpose of YOU writing a blog about a topic YOU know a lot about if the main reader will be YOU.

It seems to me the best topic for ME to blog about is a topic I like but do not know much about that way MY main reader, namely ME, will benefit from what I write and then read.

I'm sure at some point some random will wander by and read something I've written here. I've blogged before and that happened from time to time. This blog, however, is for me. It will be diary and notebook of my journey exploring Folk and Bluegrass - the music, its history and future.

Current I'm:

• Setting up the blog.
• Listening to some music
• Reading some more about Folk and Bluegrass
• Writing some posts.