Late Tuesday / early Wednesday

This is why its fun to camp at the Walnut Valley Festival.
I was up until at least 2 a.m., listening to some great live music. I was just too sleepy and went to bed, but they were still going strong.
About 10 p.m., I wandered out and started seeing and hearing all the music.
Some were just a few people sitting around their campsite jamming, while others were elaborate performances.
One campsite had a stage and a perforance. It was fixed up like a beach party. I got there kinda late and only saw the end, but it was cool.
Then I wandered over to a fiddlers group and stayed there for at least an hour. People came and went. There was an innner circle of fiddles, guitars and banjos. Then there were people on the edges.
Someone would leave and another person would join the circle. People on the edges also played along at times.
At one point there were nine fiddles going at once. That was an amazing sound. Sometimes there were only five or so fiddles. It  varied as people came and went.
There were also mandolins, zithers, and other instruments. For a time there was a big bass guitar.
The thing that struck me most was the quality of the music. I would think you would need to be pretty confident in your ability to sit down in the circle and start playing.
Then I wandered over to the Carp Camp. This is a big camp and is pretty well known. There must have been 25 or 30 people playing. This was a more organized affair.
There were large hammer dulcimers, as well as a large complement of guitars, fiddles, mandolins and so forth.
The sound here was amazing too. All those instruments, and they were all sounding great together.
Again, it was a collection of fine musicians.
I walked by some smaller parties, but even there, the music was really good.
THere were also a lot of people walking around with various instruments. Some would go to the edge of one of the circles but would never actually play, while others would join in on the edges.
The music probably did go till sunrise.
I didn't even get to stage 6, or to the Pecan Grove.
Its mid morning now, I hear the sounds of people playing around the campsite.
Still, its pretty quiet otherwise.