Circus

She climbed into the bottom of this balloon then climbed out of the top dressed differently, while doing acrobatics on a rope above our heads.

A mystery.

The KidzField opened at midday with fanfares, outrageous costumes, balloons, clowning, whooping, us lot on violin and ukulele and many small rushing feet as the ribbon was cut.

Our whole team spent almost five hours together in the acoustic music tent this afternoon showing any child who came in, mostly aged between 3 and 10, how to play the violin, cello, guitar or ukulele, as they chose, or do beatboxing. I have never taught violin before and learnt very fast how to pace my teaching, how to adapt when a child came in wanting to join an existing session, how to recognise when a child had had enough and needed a break. It was extremely focussed work and we all emerged exhausted.

Then all recovered enough to go in search of an evening's music elsewhere. We couldn't get in to our collective first choice, Afriquoi at Croissant Neuf stage, and instead followed our ears around the Green Futures field. By midnight the generation younger than me were ready to go clubbing in the South East Corner and I was definitely not. On my way back to my tent I heard some soukous(ish) music on the tiny stage at Carhenge and stopped for a while. I discovered later they are a garbage band from Kinshasa: Fulu Miziki.