So many acts...

Ray Davies (of The Kinks) and his band play the Civic Theatre on Monday 24th March. March 22nd for 12 hours the Blues Fest NZ plays in Dakota Fields, Coromandel and of course March 14th - 16th is WOMAD. Would love to hear of readers experiences at any of these gigs. Beyond talking about it, I have no involvement with any of them, but I have never professed much more than an interest in the Blues and over the years this has turned to a love of what I hear and see. But someone else's festival, no cameras thank-you - and I am basically a photographer rather than a musicologist; a photographer who has some ability with digital video production. There is a lot of interest in these events in the media and plenty of people will go making the blues a kind of mainstream part of Kiwi cultural identity. It always was, we just were not so much aware of it, but kept it secret from each other, from ourselves and of course from the world. Haven't things changed. It is not just us, it is the world. And more and more see our land as the epitome of what is good about preserving nature and protecting it from our hands. One way is to make music. Hard to say why it works, but it works real good.