Due to the fact that there seems to be time limit on posting and I am wordy, I'll do this in stages....
I reconnected with some old dear friends at Nearfest, and met and re-met many Moonies...and we all able to get together (friends & moonies) Sunday PM at the Brew works for dinner. And of course the people I see at the shows locally and at the festivals each year. Such a fun gathering, always a whirlwind.
It was great to see Moses and his friend (Bill? hope I got that right) again. Moses happened to be sitting next to Jeff, the best man at my wedding (cue the small world theme).
Met Sean McFee at his CD table. I commented on the Toubadou CD and said "I heard this on Aural Moon" and it's great...he says "oh who are you"...it was funny. It was Sean's show I heard it on, too! So hopefully I got Sean introduced to all of the the Moonie contingent. We may have all not known it was him, until he got introduced before the Emerson show. That would have been odd!
Met Roger Lee for the first time, A very caustic yet funny and engaging man. Nadina in from CA was great to see again, and of course Jim and his brother
Brian and Martha and Kris, official photographers and all around good eggs (well maybe not Kris
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And I was incredibly pleased to finally meet Davin (Avian) and Karen (the voice of gardenkren lol), two really nice people. Karen had a medical scare on Sat PM, but I'll leave that for Avian to explain. And of course Tom Gagliardi I saw again.
Staying at the main hotel, I was able again to meet some of the artists in informal settings. While not to the extent of Matthew Parmenter's riveting Barry Manilow conversations, it was all good fun. Ray, Tom, and Chris from Echolyn, Roger Dean, and Dennis Chambers (man has tree trunks for arms) to name a few. I scared Cameron Hawkins by saying in a loud voice as he was checking in, "I heard they cancelled Nearfest, I guess FM will be booked in another 20 years".