Bloggers at Floyd Fest
My fantasy is that at some point during the recent Floyd World Music Festival (Floyd Fest), I would have finagled myself up on stage, grabbed a microphone and shouted to the crowd, “How many bloggers are out there? Let’s see a show of hands!” After all, didn’t my friend, Steve P, get up on the stage a couple of years ago and brag about his first grandson? And last year Bob the “Foreman” earned the privilege, via his building skills, to be slotted in the performers program to lead us in a Beatle’s song.
In the past two of months, I’ve had a couple of “what I’ve been calling blogger blind dates,” where I meet up with fellow bloggers that I’ve been communicating with online. At Floyd Fest, I had the pleasure to meet Jeanne from “Out and Back,” who was in town for Floyd Fest and to visit her brother, also a blogger (A Tech Monk Speaks).
This was the first year there was an internet café at the festival, graciously hosted by Blue Nova, a Floyd computing company. I wonder how many bloggers besides me were under the Blue Nova tent checking their blog traffic over the 3 day festival weekend. If I could have gotten that show of hands, we all could have met there and had a real blogger cross pollination meet-up. As it were, I was able to visit Michele Agnew for her traditional blogger weekend “meet and greet” (see photo). Something I was hardly expecting to do.
I was thrilled to run into a couple of festival goers who admitted to being regular “Loose Leaf” readers (ones that I wasn’t aware of), I sold some of my books, enjoyed the attentive audience under the poetree during my reading…and…Ani DiFranco’s poetry was so good that at one point it made me cry. Wow. Ain’t life great?!
August 3rd, 2005 10:59 am
My wish is more simple regarding my blog. I wish I could figure out how to look at my blog traffic. I think I was told once, probably by Colleen, but I forget. If anyone feels inclided to email me with instructions, I would appreciate it. I have a Mac if that makes any difference.
Kathy
August 3rd, 2005 1:18 pm
It sure sounds like you had a great time! I actually priced out going to Floyd Fest but man, you’re far away. Glad it was fantastic.
August 3rd, 2005 2:04 pm
Hey Pearl…you mean I almost got to meet yet another blogger! Maybe next year? Someone just told me that they think the internet cafe was at Floyd Fest last year as well. I had to laugh because I wasn’t a blogger then…and so it didn’t register.
Kathy, I sent you some links for stats etc.
August 3rd, 2005 2:54 pm
Oh oh oh, I feel guilty for not stopping by said internet cafe and sending you the few photos of your poetree recital… been super busy, too busy to blog myself.
August 3rd, 2005 5:45 pm
Hey Colleen… it was great to meet you too. Wasn’t Ani spectacular? She always is but I thought she was especially so on Sunday. I loved her reaction to the pouring rain.
August 3rd, 2005 10:28 pm
It’s great when connections happen like that!
Have just delivered up one meme….
August 4th, 2005 10:42 am
Floyd Fest sounds wonderful! I love that you blogged while you were there! Thank you for the sweet comment you left me yesterday. That made my day:-)
August 5th, 2005 9:28 am
Very cool!