| Joint headliners: Showaddywaddy Nine Below Zero Osibisa. Works-FM. Ezio. Mugenkyo Taiko Drummers Outpatience. Polly Paulusma Landermason. Barefoot Swan Jazzers Photos by Gerry Weatherhead |
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This year the Clare World Music Festival enjoyed the best of everything. Perfect weather, a sell out crowd, two stages, and eleven fantastic bands providing non stop music for over ten hours. |
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Photos by Gerry Weatherhead |
Local band Outpatience were the first band to play. Their individual brand of indie blues rock ensured the festival got off to a cracking start. |
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Nine Below Zero, seen here working hard for their complimentary pints of 3.9 Above Zero. We reckon a few more gigs like this one and the guy in red will able to afford a new guitar!. |
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Ezio. One of the most hardworking bands in the country, Ezio have been described as 'Rockers with Acoustic Guitars', and rock they certainly do. |
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Works-FM, by popular demand, now at the festival for the third time. Appearing at the very first festival in 1998, they were last here in 1999, and are better than ever. |
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| Despite a last minute change in the bands line-up, (due to the M25), they played a flawless set of their unique style of reggae blues | |||
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Osibisa were the most numerous performers, outnumbering Showaddywaddy 2 - 1 with sixteen people on the stage. |
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Showaddywaddy proving they can still deliver the goods. |
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| It was particularly fitting that 'Under the Moon of Love' was performed as the park was bathed in moonlight from a glorious full moon low in the sky in front of the stage. | |||
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The festival has a reputation for attracting people from far away places. This year we are aware of visitors from Switzerland, Canada, and even one from New Zealand. |
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