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| Fairbridge Festival
2003 Fun at Fairbridge – a World of Music in One Weekend Western Australia |
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Over the Easter Break is the much acclaimed and fun Fairbridge Music Festival, which takes place about 1 hour south of Fremantle [South Perth] in Fairbridge.
On Friday morning [25th April], we drove down, Nis and the kids were down already the night before. |
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| We arrived in the aftermath of the rain and for those of you who don’t know me well…CAMPING and me do not get on too well together and I was half looking forward to and half dreading the experience!! | |
(Blowing up my mattress - my hero!) |
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There are loads of music venues, tents, the Chapel, Marquees, the Wine Bar, the Dining Room etc etc. They all play music constantly and you can choose which things to go to. They have many activities for children too! |
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of the artists we saw were: Desert Child, Quinstruments, Hottentots, The
Bayou Brothers, Ochre, Lil Fi, Wadumbah, Tok Pan Tok, Knotwork, Frencham
Smith, Machitun, Junkadelic and lots of Irish music of course!! |
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(Nis's Lyres - Actually the one with the sound box [the hole] was made by Vibodha) |
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[Danica making ice cream.] |
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The showers were luke warm, and the beds were freezing for the first half and hour of being there. [Simon, nice and warm in his tent]
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All in all a great time was had by all, including us! [Face Painting not included] |
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You
may remember that 3 years ago we went to this festival with Nis the kids
and Vistara and this year we choose to go back again for some more fun,
camping and to help Nis run his Lyre stall!! 
In
the cold morning air and on the damp grass I surveyed what was to be our
new home for the next 2 nights…give me bricks and mortar any day!!
With
all the music, the great energy and everyone in such happy and excited
spirits, it wasn’t too long before I forgot my surrounding and got
right into the atmosphere. 
There
was a huge selection and the music was awesome, I even learned how to
Hip Hop dance!!
Vibodha
spent a lot of time on the stall during the day and in the evenings from
5pm we had off to relax and have more fun. To check Nis’s lyres
go to: 
In
the evenings we had beautiful meals that Danica and I had prepred for
4 hours on the Wednesday. We froze them and brought them in a cooler.
Fajitas, Pasta and Curry yummy!!
There
were periods of heavy rain, where you could almost here the collective
groans from all the campers. 
Getting
up in the middle of the night was AWESOME as I am sure you can imagine!!!