World Music Fest 2009

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Jackie Green and Tim Bluhm

Fishtank Ensemble

Morley

Issa Bagayogo

We had an immensely good time at the World Music Fest at the Grass Valley Fairgrounds.

We listened to many kinds of music from Taiko to banjo, blues, Afro-rock, folk-rock, guitars and a saw. Much of the music these days is a fusion of traditional with the modern, thus you have African traditional music paired with a keyboard and a synthesizer, for example. Among our favorites were headliners Indigo Girls (folk rock), Issa Bagayogo (Mali with the synthisizer), Fishtank Ensemble (gypsy, fiddle, punk, wild vocals, and the saw!) Old Blind Dogs (hot celtic), Marcus James and the Wassonrai (Delta blues and african village music), Handful of Luvin (young blues rock group from Seattle), Jackie Greene and Tim Bluhm (hard driving blues, Tim is the son of our freinds Stan and Sharon) and the radiant Morley, who brings us joy from New York with her jazzy, bluesy original songs (and great vocals) about healing, hope and the highest love. We also danced alot!