Chip Taylor and Carrie Rodriguez sounding great. And looking great - I especially loved Carrie's caramel coloured boots.

Jerry Douglas on the main stage.

Derek Jones who plays bass with Jerry Douglas was phenomenal!

The highlight of the day was of course seeing Earl Scruggs perform.

Banjo players hoping to get their banjo parts signed.

Oh and I hate junk mail...

I have been getting almost 4000 spam a week in my inbox and I refuse to change my email address. I have tried spamcop and spam filters and MS outlook junk mail filters but I felt like I needed to do something even more drastic. So I installed ChoiceMail which is a spam blocker. So from now on anyone who sends me an email and who is not currently in my contacts list will need to reply to an activation email the first time they write to me. I then get to choose whether to add them to my list of friendly emailers or not. I have had it installed for almost 5 hours now and LOVE IT. I feel more in control and when I get email it is from a friend or colleague. No more bombardment of drug or porn adverts... Sigh of relief.

More EFMF photos soon...

The first session that I went to on Friday was the Learn by Heart with Ferron,
Michael Franti, Rodney Crowell, Chip Taylor and Carrie Rodriguez.

I enjoyed seeing Ferron again, she still has a wonderful warm presence and great songs. She was joined with Jami Sieber on electric cello.

And I can see why Sam and Wind like Michaell Franti - he's a very charismatic, warm person. The workshop should of probably been called "Songs from Iraq" - it became quite refreshingly political and set the tone of the weekend for me.

The Dixie Hummingbirds

Martin Simpson and Jerry Douglas performed an amazing set together. It was one of my favourites - I loved watching how they were communicating non-verbally to each other while jamming.

Jerry Douglas

Lucky Dube

The hill at Main Stage - I am on my way to the Beer tent to meet Marshall for a drink. Thanks to the organizers for ordering Big Rock Rock Creek Cider - it tasted great after an afternoon listening to great music.

The first band Jaojoby got the festival grooving to a great start.

The Dixie Hummingbirds were FABULOUS - great harmonies and wonderful musicianship. Highly recommended.

I would tell you more but I have to rush off to work!

Tonight's lineup (Friday August 6)
Lucky Dube
Great Big Sea
Michael Franti and Spearhead