Albert Lee, John Jorgenson and Fabu

“To ‘confabulate’ is to fabricate imaginary experiences: hence [our] fanciful and fearless music” says the bio of David Woodhead’s Confabulation, the worst-named band since Rubicon Hearst & His Donkey-Botherers.

When I arrived at the Grassy Knoll, the Confabulation, who I will henceforth call Fabu, was just about to launch into an original composition by band violinist Jaren Freeman-Fox.

The piece was exhilarating. Imagine Lalo Schifrin and Charlie Daniels collaborating on the score to a chase movie about bootleggers. If none of that made sense to you then go ask your parents. Fabu’s other songs were good but Freeman-Fox’s piece was the highlight.

The “Guitars!” workshop at the Grierson Community Stage drew a crowd and well it should have – Albert Lee & John Jorgenson are virtuoso guitar players and both were in fine form. Seeing their fingers fly across the fretboard was jaw-dropping and their guitar dual at the end was worthy of the standing ovation it received.

Brennan Storr writes the blog Largely the Truth.