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:324340 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
