Kerrville Folk Festival, it came and went

Man...You start off thinking..Kerrville Folk Festival...18 days, wow!
That's a long time. You get your camp all set up ( Mis-Inclined is my
camp), then....Man, it's over, just like that. Time flies when your
having fun.
Once again this year I was a finalist for the Newfolk Competition.
There were 32 great artist to pick from, whittled down from 800
submissions. They pick 6 winners, in the end I came in 7th..Well I'll
keep trying. In someways it says a lot about your craft to have been
chosen a couple of times. To me it is reinforcement that i am still
writing quality songs, still there is still lots of room for
improvement for sure.
The line up this year was great, night in and night out and all
night long. I had a big time playing and singing in some grand circles
around the campfires, although there were no actually campfires due to
a burn ban, here in Texas we are in drought right now, and in bad need
of some rain. I thought for sure we would get rain during the
festival, but for the first time since i have been attending it did
not rain. Anyway, the festival was a success for little ol' me on many
fronts. I have a tentative tour booked for Canada in November, a
couple of house concerts to do and some just plain "sideman
guitarist"gigs i picked up while there. Also a couple of other things
that i am not able to talk about right now, but very nice (more on
those later)
Me an my pal, Jonathan Byrd played a few gigs together while he was
here for the fest. One especially nice one was at camp "Sweetness &
Light" on the last friday, after the main-stage performances were
through. My musical cohort from the H!X, RB Blackstone, played keys
with us and we had a great hour long show with about 100 people ion
attendance. It was really fun and great, receptive audience sitting in
lounge chairs and on the ground and in the street. Cool...very cool!
Back at home, remodeling starts up again, we are closing in on
finishing up the living room/kitchen, working on the ceilings (all
tin) and installing new lighting and ceiling fans and such, we are
getting close to actually having a normal living space again. We have
added lots of extra insulation and the AC feels really nice. We have
never had a air conditioned home before.
The kitchen is almost complete ( we love our new dishwasher) and the
next big step is to have all the sheetrock,taping and floating done
and then paint the walls, then we install all new floors and we are
good to go..at that point it will be party time at Morgan Manor...
Well that's quite enough for now. In the meantime, keep looking up
and hope to see you down the trail! Claude"Butch"Morgan