Gerard

Just checked out the plan for Greenfarm 2008 .Looks great, great bands, if it is as good as last year ti will be a fantastic weekend

I have heard a rumour that Brian Flynn will be appearing at the festival this year....is this true ?????????? I remember him from years ago and he was not only a brilliant musician and a great stage presence but a really cool looking guy. I can hardly wait to see him in action. RENATE, ERDING

I remember Brian too. I saw him collecting the old age pension in Galway some years ago. He had his guitar with him and told me that he was doing a lot of "alley music". I'm really looking forward to seeing him on stage in Germany again and hope that he remembers to pay back the DM32,- I lent him all those years ago. He is nice when he has money. Hildegaard

This has to be one of the worst designed websites I have seen in a long time. Who designed such an unuseable website ? I myself am 1/2 blind and my screen reader can not read this. The webpages is not very accessible for people like me. :(

Well Jack, My problem appears to be much worse. I cannot read at all. I can barely manage to write, (went to school for three years and then gave it upas a bad job).

My wife thinks the site is "cool" and has read mayn of the more interesting parts out to me. We have had many hours of ferocious laughter at erudite comments on the site and would nearly go so far as to say that the site provides better entertainment than Mre Marion Basler on a bad night. Then agian, it would be a fierce sad world if everybody liked the site. Maybe we can meet up at the festival if you can see me and we could have a long chat about websites and their detrimental effects on modern folk music. My hearing is OK.

Tom

Looks like Jack's problem could be easily solved by making the colour of the page backgrounds a lighter green. Thanks for drawing our attention to it, Jack - we'll see about fixing it!

I'm not so sure there. Jack might be colour blind. I had a dog like that once. Brilliant where visualising the macrocosm was concerned but a dead loss where the microcosm was concerned. We took him to a dog doctor who diagnosed ameoscopopathy and we sent him to the Isle of Man for treatment. When he came home to us he was able to smoke a pipe and build webpages. He later took to playing the comb and joing a Céilí Band in Kilkenny West. When Pat Kilduff left the band, the dog left in sympathy and ran away from home. I read in the Melody Maker years later that he had had something to do with Foster & Allen and influenced the Bothy Band at their aesthoautoganomic birth. He#d be a great dog to have at a festival on an organic farm I'd say.

What do others out there think?

I know many of you would love to help promote/advertise the festival. Well you can. We have hundreds of leaflets and beermats (beautifully produced) which you could just leave behind the windscreen wipers of all the cars in your neighbourhood. Just drop down to the DIF-Stand at the Stadtgründungsfest on 13./14/.14 June 2008 and collect everything you need there. The stand will be positioned in Marienhof right next to the U-Bahn exit/entrance there. Talk to whoever is manning the stand. They will be civil and friendly towards you.

Thanks a million.

Frank

Much thanks to the valiant helpers who made The DIF-Stand and Greenfarm Promo 2008 such a success last weekend. You know who you are. Frank

Hallo, waren gestern auf Eurem Greenfarm Festival und echt begeistert. Tolle Stimmung, tolle Bands - alles super. Nur schade dass so eine Spitzenband wie Banshee erst mit fast 1 1/2 Std. Verspätung auftreten konnte (da waren eine Menge Leute schon weg) und dann auch noch durch eine ausgesprochen schlechte Tontechnik/-abmischung dran gehindert wurde, dem verbliebenen Publikum Ihre absolut tolle Performance zu präsentieren. Ansonsten war alles super...wir werden beim naechsten Mal mit Sicherheit wieder dabei sein....Gruesse aus dem Augsburger Land....

Vergesst alles, was Ihr bisher über Festivals gehört habt. Das einzig ware ist Green Farm. Vielen lieben Dank an Paul Daily, Herrn Hausler und Mike Ducat das ist Euch auch dieses Jahr wieder prima gelungen. Mein Sohn Gina und ich sind stolz darauf ein Teil davon gewesen zu sein. Der Termin für nächsten Jahr ist bereits fest eingeplant.

Macht weiter so. See you at the Bulmers Corner in 2009 latest !!! Carolina

Hiya

What can one say.

Good mix of friendly and happy people (a lot of strangers became new friends)

Good range of food & drinks mmmmmmmmmm BULMERS OVER ICE!

Good weather ( bit too hot sometimes)

Good range of music, comedy, sport and dance

Nice cool lake (with bloody big fish and noisy frogs :-) )

Super support from all involved (it`s a long long long list) They know who I mean!

Long onpening hours :-)

and most of all with the help of some heathly chaos, Green Farm 08 once again produced that extra special atmo! (who missed it it`s your own fault)

see you in round about 360 days

cheers!

OH...... I gotta get some sleep now. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

hallo,

danke für das fantastische wochenende mit wunderbarer musik und netten leuten, vielen dank vorallem an alison und frank;-)

lg olaf

Great time at the Hausler Hof,

Riveting performances,

Elaborate organisation,

Enrichement of the munich music scene

Nice way to spend a weekend

Frantic reactions everywhere (F`n beautiful weather)

Amazing amount of visitors

Rich choice of food and beverages

More of that please !

A big thank you to the organisers of the Green Farm Festival 2008 for putting on a great weekend for musicians and audience alike. We from the band Celtic Chakra enjoyed performing but we also enjoyed meeting up with some of the other Trad musicians from all over Germany and play spontaneous sessions late in the night. It was great to hear bands of the calibre of Cara and Iontach. The standard of musicianship at the festival was very high. It is Germany's first proper out doorTrad fest. It is great to bring all these bands from everywhere in Germany together on five big stages every year.

The music was great , the location fantastic, the organisation splendid, the drinks were cool and the weather could not have been better. A big big thank you from us in Celtic Chakra (and I am sure that most of the other musicians feel the same) to Frank and Paul and their entire team for a weekend to remember.

Looking forward to the Green Farm Festival 2009.

Loads of thanks to Paul, Frank, Magic Traudi, Siobhan, Maureen and Conor, Helen, Monika + Daniel, Robert, Pat, Maria and Dara, everyone who did the unglamorous but essential stuff of setting up and taking down (Paul again, Paul M, Alan etc.), the Stuttgart gang - Brixi, Robin, Max, Benni and Miriam ... and the lots of others who put it all together and kept it all going. Yez are all stars, every one of you! As Barry from The Rye said, it was savage !

Liebe Leute vom Green Farm Festival!

Wir waren zwar nur kurz da, aber wir hatten einen sehr schönen Gig auf der kuscheligen Bühne am Wasser und außerdem eine Menge Spaß! Weiter so!

L.Bow Grease

www.lbowgease.de

Green Farm Festival has to be the newest hit on the scene for sure! Thanks Frank, Allison, Paul (that's plural Pauls), and all the rest of the team for putting on a fantastic weekend. To have spent the whole weekend listening to some great music, meeting up with many many old friends, getting steadily wobbly through two all night sessions means it'll take me a full year to recover, roll on 2009 (please post dates Frank)!!!

Special personal thanks to Greensleeves, Burning Biscuit Band, Paul Daly Band and of course Colm (my stomach is still aching from the craic), for providing some great sets. Hope to see you all again next year.

Again, thanks to you all.

The Green Farm Festival 2008 should be rernamed " The Golden Festival of Nirvanic Celtic Delights Encompassing Irish and Scotttish Cultural and Musical Highlights of Highest Quality on a Farm that Thanks be to God had a Lake on It " It's a bit much for a sign but it conveys more of what to expect to all those poor pitiful souls that decided to stay home to avoid the heat.

This festival was hot ,and not just weather wise. The music was hot- and what a wide spectrum of styles to suit every taste.

The sessions were hot- great players from all over were there knockin' out the tunes in grand style.

The dancing was hot- the Irish as well as the Scottish Dancers were an absolute pleasure to watch!

The Ceili dancers were hot- I can testify from first hand experience that the Munich Ceili Band provided the music that inspired the people to dance with delight no matter how warm it was. It was a "moving experience" and there wasn't a dry eye in the house, as a matter of fact, there wasn't a dry anything in the house.

The food was hot- I can't believe I was at a festival ing Germany all weekend and didn't eat even one bratwurst. What a great choice of different foods!

My Artwork was hot- I finally got to field test my artwork for extreme climatic changes. Last year it survived the thunderstorm test, this year the heat was turned up and it passed with flying colors. Thanks to everyone for the postive feedback!

The drinks were cool- My first time drinking Bulmers on the rocks, yuuuum,and there were plenty beaming on Beamish! Beam me up Scotty.

The Lake was hot- I mean cool! One of my best experieces this weekend was floating on my back , cool as a cucumber, in this wonderful lake listening to the great music from the nearby stage. It was fantastic!

My thanks and compliments to all of the organizers, helpers, musicians, dancers, vendors, and visitors that made this an absolutely wonderful event. What a great place to come back to, to meet up again with old and new found friends year after year!

I hope I have the oppurtunity to come back and contribute to the Craic!

Standing Ovations,

José

The last couple who posted instigated a double post. While trying to delete one of the duet, I inadvertantly deleted both posts. Sorry. Mea culpa. Maybe you could post again.

We (The Rye) had the pleasure of playing The Green Farn Festival, and we'd like to thank everyone involved, here's a link to a couple of tunes from the early afternoon show

http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1kr7XdDz-U

thanks again, best wishes and continued success