The problem here is that while most of the other publicly available recordings from this festival are soundboard bootlegs (or even official live albums), this one comes from an audience bootleg. And not even a particularly good one. There was a lot of wind blowing on the mike, airplanes flying overhead, nearby people talking, and other such problems that got onto the record.
On the plus side, I write this in September 2026, and audio editing technology has improved a lot since I posted most of the other music from the festival in 2023. So I ran these songs through multiple filters, mostly using the MVSEP program, but also Izotope 10. That helped sometimes, but not all the time. It's better, for sure, and I consider it listenable, but if you have high standards, this probably isn't for you. There still are many problems I couldn't fix.
For most of the concert, Donovan performed in solo acoustic mode. That was a lucky break for us, because it's easier to get a decent recording of that kind of music compared to a full band one. But for the last few songs, he switched to performing with his band at the time, Open Road. The last four songs in particular got really rocking, which meant the sound quality got even worse. So I decided not to include those, sorry.
Thing start off strong with "Catch the Wind." But that's just luck. It has the best sound quality of any song, because it was included on the album "Message to Love" that went with the film documentary of the same name. You'll notice a drop-off between that and everything else.
Another problem is there's no banter between songs, with one exception (track 21). That's because the person who recorded this paused the recordings between songs. This was a common bootleg recording style in this era, due to people wanting to save tape. The audience applause was generally cut off right in the middle as well for every song. But there were a few that escaped that problem. I used the few cases of having the applause die out, and then pasted those endings onto other songs, so all the applause come to natural ends.
This album is 56 minutes long.
017 Catch the Wind (Donovan)
018 Henry Martin (Donovan)
019 Sailing Homeward (Donovan)
020 The Pee Song (Donovan)
021 talk (Donovan)
022 Hurdy Gurdy Man (Donovan)
023 Slow Down World (Donovan)
024 There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly (Donovan)
025 The Garden (Donovan)
026 How Silly (Donovan)
027 Get Myself Together Somehow (Donovan)
028 Atlantis (Donovan)
029 Sand and Foam (Donovan)
030 There Is a Mountain (Donovan)
031 Train Whistle Blues (Donovan)
032 Mistaken Eternity (Donovan)
033 Season of the Witch (Donovan)
https://pixeldrain.com/u/uUHwRKtE
alternate:
https://bestfile.io/en/He9B38q80uR8oYP/file
The cover image comes from this exact concert.






















