Yeah! Sheepskin! If you hear something swell, and it's on-line-able, I'll take it as a late new music tuesday entry. ;)
:Den -- The state has physical power and uses it when necessary; the power of religion is love and beneficence. Moses Mendelssohn On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 12:28 AM, Judah McAuley wrote: > > I'm off in the morning to Pickathon, a music festival held at a > friends farm. Now in it's 11th year, it has about 2,000 folks or so > and sprawls over 80 acres of mostly wooded farmland. 4 stages, one > workshop barn, spontaneous jams through the woods, music from 10 am to > 2 am Friday through Sunday (on the official stages) and everywhere > else at all hours. > > This is really the sort of event that people everywhere should try to > emulate. All the musicians play multiple sets on different stages to > make sure that people can see them as conflicts arise and they can > showcase different types of performance depending on the stage. Since > a lot of the gigs span more than one day, a lot of the bands camp on > site and hang out with each other and the people camping at the event. > It becomes a real community and everyone gets together to just play > and enjoy the hell out themselves. > > The music may, or may not, be your sort of gig, but I encourage you to > listen to some of the bands, take a look at some of the video and > photos. It helped remind me of something I learned as a kid, that > music is for everyone, that the people up there on the stage are up > there because they just really wanted to play and kept at it and that > you can get off your ass and play and sing no matter where you are are > or how old you are. > > This event has all sorts of neat things, like we are the first > festival to go totally plastic free... reusable custom beer and water > containers from Kleen Kanteen, no bottled water, no beer cups to toss > in the recycling. But really, those things are all about the people > and the people come together to make and enjoy the music. > > So enjoy some music at http://pickathon.com/ and think about you and > your relationship to music and music's relationship to your people and > your community. Then get out there and dance your ass off. > > Judah > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:324344 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
