Saturday
Next it's my introduction to Danish music and Haugaard & Hoirup take the stage.
The music seems highly danceable if slightly slower than I'm used to. Unbelievably one set of high energy tunes were actually written as a lullaby.
They engage the audience with banter as well as music and they seem like very amiable and competent musicians. I enjoyed it, but I'm not convinced they could float my boat for an entire set of their own.
Le Vent Du Nord provide with the opportunity to slip away for a few minutes and briefly catch up with other facilities. I'd already seen them twice, but I returned in time for them to take their well deserved applause.
I'm back in the pit for Sharon Shannon to take the stage. She mentions the new "Renegades" album and then they're into two very quick numbers from the aforementioned recording.
Needless to say it's mainly instrumental, but it's very much at home in the session. The band, Sharon, Dezi Donnelly, Jim Murray and the legend that is Mike McGoldrick have as many smiles as the audience; you can feel the warmth emanating from the band into the crowd and back again.
The Brian McNeill Session has felt slightly less Celtic this year. There have been more songs and less tunes, but it's has a balance and blend that has just caught the imagination all the way through. Sharon brings her set to a rapturous finish, there's just the finale to come.
The stage fills with as many of the Session players that are still kicking around back stage as possible.
It's the traditional end to the Brian McNeill Session and this year the massed band is signing out to "Out Go The Lights" no vocal.
It's basically a case of point the camera anywhere and you will pick up a name in the frame.
I've missed the Lisa Knapp photo call. I don't mind, this year's Session has been one of the best that I can remember. Plus I've got another photographer covering it off for me.
There's time to make it down to the Mainstage to take a couple of photographs of Bruce Cockburn. To be honest his first couple tracks leave me cold and totally uninspired. He may be a good songwriter, but he leaves me cold as a performer and at times I also find him idealistic to the point of being naive, time to head off and catch Fatea Female Vocalist of the year, Martha Tilston.
Martha has brought her band The Woods with her.
Her set starts off with the stage quite sparse. Martha is a very expressive singer and songwriter. Her performance includes lots of hand gestures that illustrate her songs. One of her songs really strikes a chord as she asks if anyone is in a job they are only doing because they need money to live. There's a mass of hands that go up in the air. I think she struck a chord.
There are a number of good singer songwriters coming through and Martha Tilston is riding the crest of that wave.
The Radio Two Stage has had some really special performances this year and I'm really glad to have spent so much time there this year.
I have to cut the set short to make it to the Mainstage for Bellowhead.