Lemme Live and Park - hanging out at the festivals in our neighbourhood

When half of Belgium seems to hang out at Rock Werchter early, we chilled a bit at 2 local festivals in our neighbourhood.

After our visit in Maastricht and a cross-country drive to visit our (grand)mothers, we returned in the evening to settle down at the Scouts festival Lemme Live. Since we can hear the music from our garden and since it supports the construction of much needed new buildings for the boys scouts, we went to sit in the (chilly!) evening sun. The boys just ran around, bounced a lot in the bouncing castle, harassed their Scouts leaders a bit and found some neighbourhood children to play with.  In the meantime Jan and I enjoyed some drinks and some food from the food stand.  

There's never a crowd at Lemme Live but I'm impressed on the organization. Everything on a festival is there: security, sanitary accommodation, catering, multiple stages, good drinks, ... Even a low-stimulus zone was available.  And the boys were hushed to get ear protection in when they wanted to approach the stage more. I appreciated that. 

On stage were local groups, some with international roots and some online hits apparently.  Dyce was a bit too smooth and commercial for me (but indeed, you find him on streaming platforms) but I enjoyed Susobrino and his little latin ukelele / dj mix  on the castle stage and Krak on the main stage. 

Krak

Susobrino

Dyce

On Sunday we joined a friend attending the Park festival at the abbey. There was for the 2nd time a folk / world music festival and despite the whimsical unpredictable weather there was a big crowd. With some local abbey beer, we enjoyed a folk violin-cello combination, a Senegalese Kora player, a flamenco-folk ensemble and a folk violin quartet.  Very much different from the previous evening but very nice to hang out.