Long’s Peak Scottish-Irish Highlands Festival, 09/12-13/09 – Reverb

Long’s Peak Scottish-Irish Highlands Festival, 09/12-13/09 – Reverb

September 15, 2009 Off By Billy Thieme
Grey skies at Estes, beautiful highlands weather. Photo - Reverb/Brian Carney

Grey skies at Estes, beautiful highlands weather. Photo - Reverb/Brian Carney

Weaving ubiquitously through all of it was the music. From so many pipers practicing simultaneously (a cacophony that everyone should experience), to the competing full bands on the field, to the large and small musician’s tents hosting performances with endless combinations of Celtic folk and rock, the music was as omnipresent as the cold gray that enveloped the entire festival. All of the tents seemed to breathe occupants, filling as the rains increased, and shrinking — albeit only lightly — whenever the sun attempted to break through.

See the entire review, and many more of Brian Carney’s photos, at Denver Post Reverb!

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  • Billy Thieme

    Aging punk rocker with a deep of all things musical and artistic, enough to remain constantly young and perpetually mystified. Billy has journalistic dreams, but of a decidedly pastoral, Scottish nature.