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Stand-Up
The Cygnet Folk Festival 2023 mantra is Back in Full Swing. After such a rich day, I’m feeling it. Professional comedian Jenny Wynter had a Masterclass, Freeing the Funny from 11 – 3.30 today, so I bit the bullet and joined up, having become very interested in improv, after Cameron and Sonja Hindrum’s Literary Lounge at Junction Art Festival in Launceston. This day has been the most positive experience and culminated in a live performance in front of a great audience at the Carmel Hall in the centre of Cygnet proper. Oh man, it stretched you, alternating nerve wracking and exciting, with the tight supportive bunch we became. Everyone had…
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The Road to Cygnet
Driving the Midlands Highway is just a lurch between 40, 60, 80, 40, 80, 60, 110 kms in any combo. You get to see lots of graders, rollers, trucks, water spreaders, men and women of all shapes and sizes with lollipop signs, and instructions to obey. You can’t fight it really, so with no ETA to fret about, a gorgeous day and Cygnet in my sights it was a fabulous drive today with lots of thinking time and singing time and a meal at the pancake and crepe place at Oatlands. Well may you say, bring back the PWD, because nothing will bring back all my buried forebears along this…
