Friday July 3rd - Storyhill Fest at last!

We woke up to a mountain view from our turret room at the Silver Forest Inn.  I loved this place and highly recommend it!  The owners moved there from Floriday two months ago and are new to inn-keeping but are doing a fabulous job.  They're extremely friendly and the food was wonderful!  The atmosphere was perfect for us.

http://www.silverforestinn.com/








They even told us about a place where we can order live praying mantis's for Jack!  A lovely family.  It's dog-friendly too.

Then we went into town for me to work on my blog and to kill some time before going out to Hyalite Canyon for  Storyhill Fest.

Then we headed back out there and checked in and found a spot for our tent, set up our chairs at the performance area and explored the camp a little.  The music started at 3:30.  Some of our new favorites:

Garrett Gue with Tazlyn Fisher

Edie Carey (I LOVE her...I predict she is going to be come widely known).



The audience area

The fest is held at Hyalite Youth Camp, run by the Bozeman Lions Club. It's on the shores of the Hyalite Reservoir.  It's a very laid back, summer camp style event with cabins and teepees or you can pitch a tent.  The food is catered and was really, really yummy!!!!!!!!!!

Every night after the day's artists and the full set by Storyhill, there was a campfire where all the artists and many of the attendees would sit around a huge campfire and peopel would take turns singing and they would take requests.  It was such a community atmosphere, with people borrowing each other's instruments and the audience singing along...I loved it.  We were too tired to make it up later than 1 a.m. but apparently many stayed up into the wee hours.

Here is a link to some music from the festival:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOwE63gjIZs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgu89BBHrZ0

© 2009 Tara Morrison