Folkrot

Which means "folk root" - not "folk rot".

I am not sure that I mentioned that folk and bluegrass music are pretty popular in this area.

  As a matter of fact, after hearing my husband play his banjo, a few people have actually said to him,

"I have always wanted to play the banjo."  It's true!  I heard them!!

This is the first year for the Folkrot music festival. 

 Some of our dear friends were going, and since John has had a lifelong love of 

bluegrass and folk music, we joined them from mid-day Friday to Saturday evening.  

It was great fun.

If you are in southeast Sweden next July, I hope you check it out!

The festival staff served very wholesome and reasonably priced food,.

And the fact that this old cooker was utilized in some of the cooking just made it better. 

There were several pavilions where music was preformed. 

I guess I should mention that the festival took place at a horse farm.  

The venue pictured above is, I assume, a riding barn.  

The owners did a great job of modifying the setting to accommodate the festival. 

I know that the musicians would have been happy to play anywhere, 

but I loved the look of these lamps hanging from this barn's ceiling!!

A story-teller and her dog, with children.

Aside from stage performances, there was a lot of jamming going on.  : )

I recall seeing more than one child in this make-shift seaside. 

A wooden shoe fiddle.  

As the story goes: back in the day, 

 a farmer's right shoe was typically worked harder than his left.

 Thus, the farmer sometimes had a spare left (wooden) shoe.   

These poor farmers were also in sore need of a fiddle.  

Spare shoe + need for a fiddle = a wooden-shoe fiddle.  

Obviously!