Venue: Starlite Room
Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Date: April 9, 2013
The final act of the night when I attended PaganFest in Edmonton was Ensiferum, a "heroic" folk metal band from Helsinki, Finland.
This was the band that I was most looking forward to seeing at the festival, and although it was great, it wasn't quite what I had expected. On the albums, there are a number of additional sounds provided by session musicians, however the live show is pared down to include just the bare essentials (including keyboards.)
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| Ensiferum closing out the night at PaganFest in Edmonton |
About 3/4 of the way through their set, I was getting really overheated. The moshpit wasn't terrible, but it was getting really hot, so I 'tapped out' and headed back to the far back bar for a drink of water. The guy behind me in the audience offered to save my place, which was really nice, but I thanked him and said no-thanks... I knew I needed to cool off instead. The water was free (rare!) so I tipped extra-generous instead, and got some photos from further back in the room.
When the band came out for a short encore, they started it off by singing 'happy birthday' to their keyboard player, while the bass player tapped away at her keys to provide the melody.
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