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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