Renn Fest and Cercamon
Sep. 7th, 2009 07:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
herveusSaturday I did something completely new. I went to the Maryland Renaissance Festival. Yep. Never done that before.
I went to see Cercamon perform. In between, I caught the Rogues for a couple of sets as well. Cercamon did four sets; I caught them all. At the end of the day, I was chatting with Pierre-Alexandre (the lead guy) and he finally exclaimed that he remembered me. Before getting to that point, he did note that I made all four sets. I snagged the two CDs that I didn't yet have, including their brand new one.
I enjoyed the shows, although their second set started late. You see, the act that preceeded them seemed to run a bit over their allotted time. I guess when you're a "big name" act, you don't have to clear out in a timely fashion. Maybe I'm just a fuddy-duddy, but I didn't thing Hack and Slash were nearly as funny as they clearly thought they were. They drew an audience, but I found their act to be a lot ... disappointing.
Cercamon did a number of familiar pieces along with stuff from the new album. Interestingly, the new album is entirely Languedoc -- songs from the south of France in Occitan.
I didn't have a whole lot of spare time to see the entire fair since I was focused on not missing any of the sets.
All in all, it was a good day.
I went to see Cercamon perform. In between, I caught the Rogues for a couple of sets as well. Cercamon did four sets; I caught them all. At the end of the day, I was chatting with Pierre-Alexandre (the lead guy) and he finally exclaimed that he remembered me. Before getting to that point, he did note that I made all four sets. I snagged the two CDs that I didn't yet have, including their brand new one.
I enjoyed the shows, although their second set started late. You see, the act that preceeded them seemed to run a bit over their allotted time. I guess when you're a "big name" act, you don't have to clear out in a timely fashion. Maybe I'm just a fuddy-duddy, but I didn't thing Hack and Slash were nearly as funny as they clearly thought they were. They drew an audience, but I found their act to be a lot ... disappointing.
Cercamon did a number of familiar pieces along with stuff from the new album. Interestingly, the new album is entirely Languedoc -- songs from the south of France in Occitan.
I didn't have a whole lot of spare time to see the entire fair since I was focused on not missing any of the sets.
All in all, it was a good day.
