Mar 02 2004 The Ides Of March, are heading this way!

This past weekend was the Third Annual San Pancho Music Festival, produced and Promoted by a retired hog farmer and his music teacher wife both former Illinois on the border with Iowa residents and both former Sunday school Teachers.

There are some fine musicians living here and up the coast who have day jobs. A local pizza shop owner who taught music in Montpellier, FR for twenty years is a flute and guitar virtuoso. An architect kicks ass on guitar; A recently relocated construction worker from la Ciudad picks chords out of magical places on a simple twenty-five dollar guitar; a surfer writes his own outrageous folk songs "to be released the first part of 2009 or 2012," says he.

Almost one hundred musicians performed over twenty-two hours of music. An Italian women did Joplin in English with a Mexican accent; The local kindergarten sang songs about the colors of big plastic rings and whales; A couple of punk guitarists from Seattle, obviously caffeine deficient and deprived couldnÍt get the local sit-in drummer to provide a beat to their non-rhythm chording; a banjo picker, retired from some life or another who said he learned from Pete Seeger provided banjo history and excellent five string picking as several other bluegrass musicians kinda ambled over to the stage to back him up. They obviously felt out of place on a stage and were kinda looking around for the RV parking.

One guy who chased me out of the place and across the street for lunch began his Sunday afternoon set with, "If you all have been reading the newspapers recently, youÍve read about how the worldÍs passion for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ has reached monumental proportions" Oy! Another reason not to read the papers, but I failed to see any mention of these phenomena on any InterNet news sites I check regularly. I did not go to www.god.com.

Nights have been noticeably warmer and the sunrise this morning was beautiful. Yes, its a fine morning here. The Ides Of March are heading this way!

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