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NW Folklife Festival
May 30th, 2005 12:10 pmI think I need a free day post-Folklifee, just to make sure that I've sorted all the e-mails, phone numbers, websites and addresses from new connections and re-connections. The rest of the day would be sent napping and listening to new music or following up new music trails on the 'net.
I ran into the majority of my musician friends in the two days I was in Seattle, as well as a few other less expected reaquaintances - for example, the EMT guys who I played across from last year recognised me (last year's EMT story is pretty amusing, actually) and gave my lil' bro greif about his beard. I played for the stroller brigade to some success, I busked with my Da for the first time, I helped Mom learn some of a new tune, and I got Doozer to contra-dance. The other highlight has to have been seeing Electric Bonsai Band (not electric, not a band!), which was the songwriting third of Uncle Bonsai. I depressed Andrew Ratshin when I had him sign his CD and said that the last time I'd seen him live I was two (My mother said "Don't worry, she's only six now."). When I went to kindergarten my parents warned me not to sing Penis Envy. What a claim to fame.
New people...I met the vendor (vendress?) Sabrina of Sabrina Shane Co, who was next to me at the Oly Folklife festival and was sad that I'd had to move (I didn't know that until this weekend, I thought maybe a vendor had complained, so that was nice to hear). While spending Sun. morning in a coffeeshop I met two Bham based vendors who seems really nice (Beatrice and...? Drums'n'Jewelry). Random meetings in the hospitality room and I now have a microsoft e-mail to send my resume to, not to mention shaking hands with a Seattle Architect who is occasionaly looking for interns (Now, DAMMIT, who was the mutual friend that made that inroduction? Carla? Carol? It was a musicer...this is why I need an admin day!).
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westrider, whom I don't see often enough, ribbitkisser, whom I don't see often enough for entirely different reasons, and zair99 whom I got to contra dance.
Mom and I collected a pretty good set of Folklife Bingo categories for next year. I learned the name of the Scarf Man (The guy with long flowing grey beard and long flowing chiffon skirts - and white sneakers) - Bo. Ate lovely sctuffs. Really didn't buy much other than food (one top, one CD). 50 more bucks'll go into my new-bow-account, which only exists in a conceptual form, since I've spent most of the 200 'saved' dollars on more urgent needs, like groceries.
Unfortunatley, I have 50 pages of reading to summarize and a 10-15 page paper to research and write, so it looks like that's how I'll spend the day. I hope everyone else had a great weekend too!
I ran into the majority of my musician friends in the two days I was in Seattle, as well as a few other less expected reaquaintances - for example, the EMT guys who I played across from last year recognised me (last year's EMT story is pretty amusing, actually) and gave my lil' bro greif about his beard. I played for the stroller brigade to some success, I busked with my Da for the first time, I helped Mom learn some of a new tune, and I got Doozer to contra-dance. The other highlight has to have been seeing Electric Bonsai Band (not electric, not a band!), which was the songwriting third of Uncle Bonsai. I depressed Andrew Ratshin when I had him sign his CD and said that the last time I'd seen him live I was two (My mother said "Don't worry, she's only six now."). When I went to kindergarten my parents warned me not to sing Penis Envy. What a claim to fame.
New people...I met the vendor (vendress?) Sabrina of Sabrina Shane Co, who was next to me at the Oly Folklife festival and was sad that I'd had to move (I didn't know that until this weekend, I thought maybe a vendor had complained, so that was nice to hear). While spending Sun. morning in a coffeeshop I met two Bham based vendors who seems really nice (Beatrice and...? Drums'n'Jewelry). Random meetings in the hospitality room and I now have a microsoft e-mail to send my resume to, not to mention shaking hands with a Seattle Architect who is occasionaly looking for interns (Now, DAMMIT, who was the mutual friend that made that inroduction? Carla? Carol? It was a musicer...this is why I need an admin day!).
Also enjoyable to spend some time with
westrider, whom I don't see often enough, ribbitkisser, whom I don't see often enough for entirely different reasons, and zair99 whom I got to contra dance. Mom and I collected a pretty good set of Folklife Bingo categories for next year. I learned the name of the Scarf Man (The guy with long flowing grey beard and long flowing chiffon skirts - and white sneakers) - Bo. Ate lovely sctuffs. Really didn't buy much other than food (one top, one CD). 50 more bucks'll go into my new-bow-account, which only exists in a conceptual form, since I've spent most of the 200 'saved' dollars on more urgent needs, like groceries.
Unfortunatley, I have 50 pages of reading to summarize and a 10-15 page paper to research and write, so it looks like that's how I'll spend the day. I hope everyone else had a great weekend too!
