The campsite wakes up in the early morning. Here and there you hear blues coming from a tent or caravan. The coffee has been made and the camping guests walk to the breakfast that belongs to the camping package. The coffee is topped up on the conveyor belt and the eggs are also sold like hot sandwiches. There are about 6,000 eggs in the shed for the entire weekend, thinks Martijn Veenstra, who has been appointed Egg Chef for today. A little after nine, almost 400 eggs have already passed through, he estimates. “Today we have scrambled eggs, tomorrow a boiled egg and so on.”
While Veenstra continues to bake eggs, guests such as Rob van der Velden are already having breakfast. “This is the charm of it all,” says the man from Vlissingen, pointing to the table where he and his friends are eating. “This company. Great. Very nice!”. Also friend Anton Swennen also from Zeeland is present at the festival for the third time. “Actually, I’m looking forward to the whole festival,” he says. “Every day is something different. Of course we are together with friends so you have fun anyway.”
The common denominator at the campsite is the love for music and the conviviality that comes with it. “It’s a fantastic atmosphere,” says Ronald from Wageningen. The artists are people who have stood still in time for forty years and are still fun, he believes. Ronald, who does not want to be called by his last name, is very much looking forward to the American singer-songwriter Beth Hart. “I’d like to see him, that’s a really great artist.” Bert Hoogeveen is sitting opposite Ronald at the breakfast table. For him it’s more about the atmosphere in the coming days. “We come here for the breaks and the camping. The music is secondary,” he says with a wink.
Watch the video below about the preparations for the Blues Festival: