We love this festival, which Solms Delta hold at the
end of Harvest every year for their staff, and for the staff of surrounding
wine farms, and the public. The music is very local and lekker and the
atmosphere laid back and so friendly.
Happy faces
cooking our lunch. The Braai lads cooking meat for all. It was very well spiced
and cooked and very popular
Chicken legs
cooked to perfection
Buying lunch
vouchers
Salads at the
ready
In the beer
tent: Wine, beer and cold drinks were only sold by the (plastic) glass and no
glass was allowed on the festival grounds
Some of the
wares
The programme
of artists for the festival, a walking display
and the programme
The
Jaloersbokkies on stage at 10.55 am
At 11.35
Pieter van der Westhuizen accompanied by the enthusiastic Solms-Delta choir:
Die Delta Soetestemme sang some local songs, some slightly risqué
The crowd
taking up their ringside seats for the all day performance
Traditional
dancers in the “Pit” while the Choir sings
joined by
locals
And they put
on a super display of country dancing
Spinning and
twisting to the music
I love to
dance!
A refreshing
ale
Next came the
Cape Jazz Band - Mountain Records’ premier recording artists
You could
order all the Solms Delta wines on the day at special festival prices and they
would then be delivered to your home (in Cape Town) free of charge
The wines on
sale with some new and very exciting labels
Hot jazz from
a mean saxophonist
This young
fellow is only 11 and already at University. He put up a stunning performance
on the drums accompanied by his dad on keyboard. They wrote the piece they played
Age doesn’t
matter as long as you are enjoying yourself
Owner Mark
Solms – “Die Baas van die Plaas”, as he introduced himself, giving the welcome
address
And the
proceedings were officially opened by Japie Gouws of sponsors ATKV
Elvis Blue,
doing an endless sound check. They started late as well. Not too impressive a
start
I am having a
PARTY!
Lots of
families enjoying the festival
Fans waiting
at the front for their favourite performers
Celebrate!
A supporter of
our local Rugby team. Go Stormers!
Elvis Blue
starts his performance
And the crowd
start dancing
Everybody, dance to the music
or chill on
the lawn
He sang his
own songs for about half an hour
Recording a
memory
The Biltong
stand is always one of the most popular
as is the ice
cream stand
Fried goodies?
Not for us
Queuing for
cones
A photo with
their hero
After Elvis
Blue’s performance, Koos Kombuis quietly took up his seat, picked up his guitar
and royally entertained the crowd with his amusing songs
He had the
crowd in the palm of his hand, and directed proceedings
and then Hot
Water took the stage
Huge crowds
enjoying the music which went on till 8 pm and finished with Emo Adams. Sadly
we had to leave earlier
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© John & Lynne Ford, Adamastor
& Bacchus 2015
