When we got there, we watched the Utah Scottish Association bagpipe band. Their costume was cool, and I love the sound of bagpipes.
Mom was pretty excited to get our picture taken with someone in a kilt I think... She wanted a guy with a bagpipe. "Dad will be jealous!" :)
Then we went and got some food... I got a vegetarian spring roll, and Mom got... some sort of noodle that starts with a V. :) The peanut sauce was delicious.
Then we went to see some Jewish Klezmer Music, and it was pretty sweet! It was the KlezBros (sp?), whom I saw the last time I went to SVUUS and loved their music. The sound was awesome, and I loved that they did gypsy music too.
(Blogger hates me, so I can't get a video up...)
Then we went to see some of the crafts! There was some Armenian (?) rug weaving, and we talked to the lady who was making a rug for a little while, and the fastest she had ever made a rug was 18 months. Wow! The rug she was working on there she had been working on at the festival for four years. :)
There was some beautiful lace making too! And some crocheting that was beautiful too! (I forget the country.)
We talked to a lady named Viktoria who was making Russian headdresses. She said that only the women in the North wore things like she was wearing, because they were practically like queens and ruled themselves. She said that usually people pictured Russians wearing red and white, but that it was only the southern people who were workers. She had lived all over Russia. Her accent was pretty awesome, if I do say so myself. :) She let me have a gem from the table too! The headdresses were beautiful, and she was a wonderful painter too, judging from the copy of her painting that was behind her... it was beautiful.
We also saw some saddlemaking and bonsai trees. We talked to some people making some Hawaiian leis and beads, and it was pretty cool. They filed down the nut (traditionally with sand), making grooves in it. It was thin enough that they wouldn't have to even use drills to make the hole in it, because the top would make a hole, and when you file the bottom it showed a hole too. The meat has an oil in it that you can rub and make it come to the surface, so it's naturally shiny! It's amazing that people took the time to figure out how to do all of these crafts!
We saw some tartan weavers, and also some weavers from Burma (Myanmar), who were making some shirts. The woman we talked to said that it would take them three days to complete. The woman was a student up at the U, and was helping in part of a program to help refugees like these from Burma learn things like transportation and job skills that they would need to live here. Awesome!
(How many times have I said "awesome"?)
We also saw some Native American basket weaving. Those baskets were really pretty. I wish I knew how to make them. :)
Also, we saw some Pueblo pottery. I recognized one of the things as a storyteller doll! Hey look, I learned stuff from ceramics class! I was pretty proud of myself for remembering. o^_^o
We got some more spring rolls, and some chrysanthemum tea. The tea was very pretty, because there were chrysanthemum flowers at the bottom that was the tea.
Then we heard drums! As soon as everyone heard them, you could look around and see everyone just flowing towards them. Mom: "Humans love our drums!" :)
They turned out to be some Japanese drummers. THEY. WERE. AWESOME. X324,723,908. They could do everything in unison, and it was nice and LOUD! Love. Love. Love. <3 <3 <3
(Blogger hates me, so I can't get a video up...) :(
Then we left for a little bit to see some Native American dancing. Their costumes were beautiful! :')
Then home for a nice long nap, followed by making some polvorones. All in all, I'd say it was a pretty good day. :)
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