Festivals

I've been to 2 festivals in the past couple of weeks.
The first was Denham Folk Festival. Denham is a lovely little village in the Scottish Borders. There were concerts, fiddle workshops and dance workshops. I had a great lesson with Mairi Rankin from Cape Breton Island. I played in the Sunday afternoon concert, "Catriona Macdonald and Friends". A really lovely weekend.
Last weekend I went to Edinburgh. I spent Friday in the School of Scottish Studies library (at the University of Edinburgh) and then the rest of the weekend was Fiddle 2007, with concerts and workshops. Unfortunately, I was really sick on Saturday and missed most of the events. I made it to 2 good workshops on Sunday though. Edinburgh is such a beautiful city; next time I hope that my head is working better and I take some pictures!
I had a meal with Chris though at the Elephant House Cafe - the "birthplace" of Harry Potter. It's very cool and much nicer this year with the smoking ban. (Tony and I walked out last year it was so smokey.)
Last night I had a spot at The Bridge Folkclub(hosted by Sandra Kerr). I was at the beginning, straight after Sandra in fact. I was accompanied by Vic on cittern (very lovely). It went quite well. We're doing a spot at another folkclub next week. And then the following week there is going to be a large concert in which I feature. It's going to be a busy couple of weeks I think.