The key components of an enjoyable outdoor concert for me are; outstanding music, superb weather and plenty of top quality food and drink. We had all three.
July 2010 in southern England was lovely and warm, so much so that the lack of rain resulted in our lawn becoming very brown. The concert sat right in the middle of that dry spell and so the portents were good.
You cannot park near Kenwood on a concert day, unless you want your vehicle to get towed away, and so a train ride then a bus from Archway got us to the front gate.
The lack of wind, the light cloud in a sunny sky and the warm temperature put concert goers in happy pre-concert mood, and a significant majority of sat down to enjoy their picnics before the music began. We enjoyed red wine with our meats, cheeses, salads spread out before us on the grass.
Off to the less than luxurious deckchairs a few rows from the front for the opening act, a singer songwriter whose name I cannot remember - sorry mate, you weren't that good.
DK isn't full on jazz anymore and the set includes lots of bossa nova style songs and some standards from the 'great American songbook' but put together it was a top quality evening, no areoplanes overhead, just great music floating towards and over us.
There's a free bus back to the tube station!
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