Music is my not so secrect lover.

This summer I got an excellent opertunity to go to an awesome indie music festival called the Back Meadows Music Festival (BMMF). Held out in a meadow in Douro. For those of you who don't know where or what Duoro is, that's not really improtant (I just sorta, live there...).

It was really great. Invitation only event (next year guys, please a map on the back of the invite? We drove around for like fourty minutes trying to find your place) to keep the trouble makers out, very handy, very safe; names where taken with ticket numbers, when we left our car was checked to make sure no one was driving drunk and to see if we could give anyone a life into town and if we were coming back. Very friendly, very nice ^-^

While we were there, I ran into a few people I knew from working downtown for a few years, one person from high school and friends of people that I know.  Acutally the first real act was a young lady named Sarah that lives down the road from me, I used to help coach her horse back riding lessons and let her show my horse for a couple seasons. I didn't actually see her, I was half passed out on a blanket in the meadow next to the stage. But what I heard of her I really enjoyed, I was pleased to see she turned out to be a pretty awesome person (with mass amounts of musical talent).  

The next best thing happend later on in the day, a band called The Burning Hell restored my faith in the local talent. They were pretty awesome, but then agian any band with a cello is automatically 
put on the awesome list in my mind. They were different anc catchy, which is what I
look for when I'm getting into new music. i can't really describe there catch, but 
it made my ears happy and that's all I need really. 

You can check them out only on myspace right now (unfortuatly..). But seriously, do it. http://www.myspace.com/mathiaskom

I another awesome character slowly crept onto the stage. His name Curtis Eller, of New York. If my friend Nick and Borat had a love child, it would be this man (which makes me laugh out loud every time I make this comparison). He was so unique, it made me smile from ear to ear just watching him. He played the elecrtic banjo (how freakin' sweet is that?!), and played what I can only describe as alternative/folk/acousitic? Yeah, that's pretty accurate.

Right now the only place I can find him is also on myspace.com, for realz give him a listen listen.
http://www.myspace.com/curtiseller

I would just like to thank the three mentioned above for making the weekend of July the 21st a lovely one.