Showing posts with label festival. Show all posts
Showing posts with label festival. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 04, 2008

Summer Update: Bluegrass Festival!

Here are some 1500-2000 people enjoying some great gospel bluegrass in my beautiful homeland of northern Minnesota.

This family, the Johnson Family, sang so beautifully, you would have thought that angels had descended! We were so privileged to also have them sing at our wedding. It was lovely...I wish you could have heard them! Oh wait! You can hear them if you jump over to my brother Matt's blog and check out his YouTube video of these guys. Thanks Matt!

David and his brother and sister also sang at the festival. You should have seen the huge crowd that gathered in the showcase stage when they started. They were massively popular! I couldn't even squeeze into the back to catch a look at my own future husband (imagine that!) so I finally had to sneak into a side door!

And in the midst of it all, we were planning a wedding! David caught a picture of me sewing one of the bridesmaid dress belts on one of our many trips back and forth to the festival site. It was a crazy busy time, but it just seemed fitting for us to get married in the midst of all the music. It was what brought us together and something that we both love so much. 

Monday, September 17, 2007

Summer Highlights

Autumn is definitely in the air and it feels so wonderful. I enjoy these crisp, cool days. But, as I was going through my pictures, I couldn't help but remember all the wonderful days of summer, especially our family music festival. Here are a few highlights and pictures that never got posted...


The Lake Itasca Family Bluegrass Festival!

This was a huge event for our family and one that we enjoyed very much.


The Franz Family was absolutely amazing...as always!
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Snack Shack Duty!
My sister-in-law, Beth, and her sister Jamie (Jamie is on the left)
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The Bontrager children singing
"...as arrows in the hand of a mighty man, so are children to their father"

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My beautiful cousins with their lovely voices, praising God!
Janna, Erica, Amanda, Katelynn, and Audra

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Sweet little Charissa Wissmann...not really sure if I was friend or foe!

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Next year is sure to be even better!

I hope I see you there!