According to event organisers in today's newspaper the Junee Rhythm N Rail Festival was a great success with around 1,000 visitors. Personally, I would have put the figure at around 300. Three times more people attend the Anzac parade each year and I saw the same faces at most of the festival events. I had a great day but I'm sure stall holders would have liked more sales, and hotels were not overwhelmed even with live bands all around town. That could have been part of the problem too: you just couldn't be everywhere.
The Licorice Factory event was a huge success with a record length for a piece of liquorice, but the Guitar event was a huge flop, with only 66 people attending. I though there might be around 500 but it seems everyone was way off. Organisers haven't been put off though, and are already talking about how they can make it better next year and what they might have done wrong.
The Wind in the Roundhouse concert was very nice but less than half the chairs were filled. Previous years have seen much better attendance. I enjoyed the string instruments but nothing was even remotely familiar to me. This was followed by big brass numbers that was certainly different. The sound in the Roundhouse was spectacular though, and for that alone I'm glad I went.
Yesterday morning about 100 people attended the Bush Poets Breakfast and it was followed by the same number (possibly the same people) attending the church service in the old Railway Refreshment Rooms. An African choir of about 13 people sang at the service and it would have been good to hear. Other events were poorly attended yesterday and about half a dozen people attended the Closing Ceremony.
I took Mum over to Wagga so she could go to a garage sale where she bought over a kilo of patchwork squares, and patterns at a fraction of the normal price. We visited my sister-in-law and nieces and dropped in for a cuppa with Emily. Scarlett is over her illness and happy and content again.
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