The Newport Bush Orchestra had a very successful weekend of playing at the first Echuca Celtic Festival. Vern Beasley the organizer was more than pleased with the Orchestra's efforts at thefestival. He was present when we revved up in the High St outside Cocos when we did our rolliking ,devil may care, happy go lucky street performance. Ross , his sidekick, was just as happy with our efforts in the street at Moama and in the bar at the Caledonian. The Echuca Workers club was at best survived, but even there there was a small but very attentive group of listeners (particulary a star struck 10yo girl) who enjoyed every moment. This will not be the last Echuca sojourne as Vern is already talking about next year. Next year we will be looking for more street performances under the shade - a great way for us to play and share our music.
By now you must be aware that although there is no none really strong player in our group, our combined sound is very impressive.It can only get even better. I was pleased to see people taking on useful roles, Annette preparing maps and ringing to confirm times and places,
Chris running interference for me and chatting to organizers, Bruce gently organizing tune sets and repertoire on the fly, and others finding, food and locating venues and the motel, etc.
We also were able to put on a 2 hour performance, pretty good considering our limited rep and this without the full crew! Overall things worked out pretty well.
Next thing to think about is a CD to sell at gigs like this!
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