lördag 25 april 2009
Ett leende som inte alla förstsår...
Om man tittar riktigt noga så kan man urskilja en person på boddyboard i vågen. Det här är en bildsrerie på 7 bilder tyvär så fick surfaren inte se något ljus i den här tunneln...
Kännslan mellan lycka och panik kan vara hårfin en dag som denna.
tisdag 21 april 2009
25
Tack för alla gratulationer jag saknar er alla!
lördag 18 april 2009
Vinter blir sommar.
torsdag 16 april 2009
tisdag 14 april 2009
Blues & regn
Jag har fixat en ruggig present till Danne som han kommer bli svindlande glad över... På kvällen blir det cocktails o tapas på jobbet vilket blir trevligt, har ju fått ihopp en liten kompis krets så förhoppningsvis blir vi ett gäng... Rhys o Maren har tagit över soffan i vardagsrummet så nu e vi fullt hus igen!
måndag 13 april 2009
Blues & Roots
For the first time in Australia a genuine international and national multi-cultural, strictly music Festival began. Bluesfest featured people from not only an indigenous background, but from many non-European and non-English speaking backgrounds. The event has now grown to a point where people from every Continent appear yearly at the event.
Bluesfest remains one of Australia's most acclaimed and respected Festivals, despite the fact that it is not one of Australia's largest festivals when compared to Big Day Out, Woodford, Tamworth Country Music Festival and many others, which all draw double the audience numbers.
Bluesfest has been the inspiration for dozens of blues world music and blues and roots festivals around Australia.
In 2008 Bluesfest Director Peter Noble, through his record label AIM, was the first ever Australian independent record label to win a Grammy award (USA). Michael Chugg, Bluesfest's co-Festival Director recently received the ‘Best Promoter in the World' award at the recent European ILMC (International Live Music Conference - London).
Bluesfest defines a new way of describing the wide group of music that was blues music, world music, roots music, a hybrid of those and other cultural styles under one umbrella - Blues & Roots Music. This catapulted Blues & Roots Music - a non-pop music style into the mainstream, whereby the Aria awards within 12 months created the Blues & Roots category as one of their major awards. This is unique to Australia as in the Grammy awards (USA) and the Brit awards (UK) do not have a Blues & Roots award category. Bluesfest has continued to evolve in the new decade, incorporating surf culture, Latino Music, African Music, political and environmental message artists.
Bluesfest is one of the most highly awarded festivals in Australia. In 2005 and 2006 Bluesfest won the Helpmann Award for ‘Australia's best contemporary Music Festival'. Between 1994 and 2008 Bluesfest has consistently been awarded Rhythms Magazine readers poll for ‘Australia's Best Music Festival'. The only year Bluesfest did not win was in 1997 when it came second. The awards Bluesfest has won are unprecedented for a rural event.
The music industry is recognized as a low level contributor to carbon emissions (Environmental Change Institute of Oxford, 2008). Bluesfest has traditionally sought to be a leader in sustainability in this already low impact industry. In 2007, Bluesfest was awarded the international AGreenerFestival, recognizing its outstanding environmental and sustainability achievements.
Bluesfest has also been nominated by The international concert magazine Pollstar (USA) in 2005 and 2006 as one of the top five finalists in the category ‘international event of the year' alongside such major festivals as The Glastonbury Festival (winner both years) and the Montreux Jazz Festival. Bluesfest is viewed as one of the world's great music festivals.
Bluesfest prides itself on being an all ages family event, with female attendances in 2008 (54%) being slightly greater than males (46%), and approximately 28 - 30% of its audience being local.
www.bluesfest.com.au
lördag 11 april 2009
Tillbaka
Just nu så har vi påsk precis som hemma o Blues and roots festivalen är i full gång. Vi ska gå på söndag om det inte regnar för mycket, för det är något vi har haft gott om den senaste tiden, vilket inte är helt konstigt eftersom vi bor i regnskogsklimat. Hösten närmar sig med stormsteg det är inte alls lika varmt längre o tankarna svävar till svensk vår, njut alla som är i sverige för det är unikt.