Castlefest is a Medieval, Celtic, Folk, Pagan, Fantasy, etc. Festival. There's loads of Music, Visual Entertainment, Food and Drink and Stalls. It was on the 31st of July, 1 st of August and the 2nd of August. I was only there on the 1st of August, the Saturday. This also happened to be PAGAN NIGHT!!!
The first band I heard play was the Dutch Celtic Folk band Rapalje.
Dieb, backed by William, David and Maceál sang an a capella version of 'The Bog Down in the Valley-O'. The crowd went wild.
Then something really strange happened, two dancing pumpkins appeared...
...and one of them dived off the stage...
...and surfed the crowd dude!!! What a dag!!!
While chilling out on the grass and eating lunch two wandering minstrels came by, by name of 'De Flierefluiter'.
Later on at the main stage a Dutch band called 'Scrum' played some tunes in the style of Flogging Molly... they were very good!!!
Back on the smaller stage where Rapalje had played earlier on, a German dude called Kelvin Kalvus showed us some tricks... he was very very cool...
...very, very, very cool!!!
Back to the main stage... a mixed Scandinavian band band called Valravn performed. Oh man, they were brilliant!
And suddenly just to make sure we were still paying attention a giant crow appeared.
After Valravn had finished performing my brother Phoenix and I had a quick chat to three of the bandmembers while they signed our CD: Martin Seeberg, Juan Pino and Christopher Juul. They were a real dag!!!
OK. A break from the music for a moment. This is the Wicker Beast. Loads of people put a sacrifice in it to the Gods and Goddesses including Phoenix and I.
Then, aaaaaaaaaaah (scream of excitement), it was Omnia's turn!!! Here's Steve doing his thing.
Oh my God there's a weird light coming out of Steve's head. To the left you can see Luka on the slideridoo and in the background new band member Tom Spaan on drums.
Then the great moment came... the burning of the Wicker Beast!!!
Up up it went...
...and Omnia played 'Auto Luonto' to completely seal the deal. I chanted along: 'Auta luonto, anna voima, tee vereni vahvemmaksi' (translation: Help me nature, give me power, make my blood run strong and stronger). I felt completely at one with, well, everything and felt proudly PAGAN!!!
So hey, that was Castlefest 2009 in pictures. The feeling I get there I can't explain and I could never make somebody understand that feeling unless they too had experienced it at some point in their life. I can't wait till next year and hope to be there the full three days!
http://www.castlefest.nl/
Omnia's Website
Rapalje's Website
Valravn's Website
Scrum's Website
De Flierefluiter's Website
Kelvin Kalvus' Website
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