An eventful Fairbridge Music Festival
By Judy Evans
@JudyEv (325759)
Rockingham, Australia
April 23, 2018 8:45am CST
Well, Fairbridge Music Festival is over for another year and we enjoyed our time there. It was quite eventful really. On the Thursday night, we had tea in an hotel in a small town near the venue and we and our friends each won a tray of meat in a raffle. We camped opposite the hotel overnight and joined the queue at the festival venue bright and early next morning.
I had a massive nose-bleed on Friday, it rained quite a bit through Saturday evening and part of Sunday, a gust of wind on Sunday blew the annex of our caravan loose and wrecked it and our friend got locked in the toilets. Apart from that it was your usual fun music festival!
There were some great acts, especially several groups from Ireland. And a young Australian group, the Perch Creek Family Band, made a great impression on the large crowd. One of their members played the saw. Have you heard a saw played with a violin bow? It is quite an eerie sound.
The photo shows some of the water escaping that collected in the roof of our friend’s annex. Just behind is our caravan with the red annex which is no more! 
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@snowy22315 (169959)
• United States
23 Apr 18
The nose bleed sounds scary..do you have any idea what caused it? I have seen people on TV play a saw before and other household items they have fashioned into instruments..quite amazing.
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@JudyEv (325759)
• Rockingham, Australia
24 Apr 18
I occasionally get nose bleeds but mostly I can stop them a lot more easily.
@allknowing (130066)
• India
24 Apr 18
You took things in your stride and that did not deter you from enjoying the festival
What caused that bleed?
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@allknowing (130066)
• India
24 Apr 18
@JudyEv I sometimes wonder when blue blood is a bad sign why people call themselves blue blooded and therefore royal (lol)
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@allknowing (130066)
• India
24 Apr 18
@JudyEv So you insist that I learn how to make a rainbow
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@JudyEv (325759)
• Rockingham, Australia
24 Apr 18
I must have a funny nose. From time to time it decides to bleed. I'm not sure why.
@Marilynda1225 (79718)
• United States
23 Apr 18
Looks like a lot of rain in the picture but glad you had a good time at the festival. Hope you can get your annex fixed or replaced easily.
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@JudyEv (325759)
• Rockingham, Australia
24 Apr 18
The caravan is insured but it will be a replacement issue. We managed to roll it back up to travel but it's too badly damaged to be repaired.
@JudyEv (325759)
• Rockingham, Australia
24 Apr 18
It could have been a very boring festival but luckily it wasn't that!
@JohnRoberts (109857)
• Los Angeles, California
23 Apr 18
Saw playing is something that mountain folk in the US do.
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@JudyEv (325759)
• Rockingham, Australia
24 Apr 18
@Kandae11 It is a bit unwieldy and limited in where you can take it. With the car and caravan, you can unhook the car and do day trips or go off-road much more easily. We can't really afford to keep both permanently although it would be nice.
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@mlgen1037 (29886)
• Manila, Philippines
23 Apr 18
I am sorry that there were still rains during the event but glad is was okay. What caused the massive nose-bleed? Are you okay now?
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