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::VGMB Earth Day::

Earth Day at our friends farm.  We go here every year for the past...maybe 5 or 6 years I think.  The bear marks the beginning...

It poured for most of the day but, we were snug inside the barn with friends and good music!


Chris our favorite sound man.  He's at all the shows and sound by him is perfection! He's listening here and making sure it sounds just right...he closes his eyes when he's checking!


VanGordonMartin Band!  Wonderful music...amazing guitarist Van...hornplayer Derek...Brian Sayers is on Drums in the back...


No Limit to Love...


Randy talking to a guitarist in between sets


Mr. Rourke showing Eva how to spin...


Disco ball in beautiful old barn...!





Despite the rain...which diminished property walking...everyone had a great time and the music was fabulous!

A Long Life...

 

My friend Maia from julia warr on Vimeo.

 
I am so inspired by....

The Beekeeper!

Do you keep bees like we do?  Well, you might need some music to serenade you on the way to the hive to check on whether...all is well...here it is!

 

Oh ye beekeepers travelling in CA...tell me what you think!  A very long way from Bonnaroo seven or eight years ago! Enjoy!

music at the farm...

sunset at the farm...pink wrapped around tree.


stone bear..


blurry tommy, nate and johnny...it's always a great pleasure!


table centerpieces...


look up...




tommy doing what tommy does best...

music in the summertime

What punctuates your summer?  Is it a slow and lazy walk along the backwoods on a footpath?  Perhaps it's a cloudless summer sky at the beach with your family?  Or maybe it's digging in your garden, hoping and praying for those seeds to take and sprout?  For this family, it's music.  We've been talking lately about Clamor...the music festival we put on at our place here 6 years ago now.  There was music all day and into the night...into the night being until 3 am.  We have amazing neighbors!  They are not on top of us but, definitley within  loud amplifier distance.  They even let us use their field for parking cars.  So, we want another festival here.  We thought it would happen this summer...but, it's looking pretty slim that a music festival will happen here this year.    However, what has happened?  A Cellini Accordion fell into my lap that will help create quite a Clamor of its own here.  Am I hearing an accordion band thumping with rhythms that have that nice funk groove interspersed in between the notes....I think I am, I think I am.  A new instrument to learn to play...Now, that's what I'm talking about ...Making a musical summer!  This Cellini is a red beauty that just sparkles with pizazz.  Isn't she pretty?!  Introducing....The Cellini!


 
 
 

 

Falcon Ridge Folk Festival

 
Falcon Ridge Folk Festival! We were there again.  I took very few pictures.  This is the last day of camping.  On the right you can see our community tent.  We camped next to the water tank...very convenient when it's 100 degrees out there, baking in the sun.  We had a blast with our friends, singing, laughing, dancing, listening, eating, drinking...you know a party all weekend filled with fun and friends.  Just what we needed!  At the last minute my daughter made it...a suprise to us all.  Here's a few photos from the last day of packing up.  We were having too much fun to worry about taking photos!

 
This was a camp across the way from us.  It was quite a camp, all decorated with candles at night and was really lovely.  The little kids got a tipi the last day...which they were thrilled with.

 
Pat is packing up the car heading down to Virginia with Emma for awhile.

 
Our friends deflating their campsite!

 
This is the man that makes it all happen for us!  There were lots of us there...I just don't have photos right now worthy of posting.  I'm going to get Lori to send me some so I can post them!  Ahem...Lori...send them on over!  See that weird shadow in some of the photos...that's what I need to get fixed or get a new camera for...hence, why I am not posting much these summer days.  Lots is happening though. 

Dancing Shoes...

 

Vintage Traincases and a pair of fancy dancing shoes...off to contradance perhaps?  Well, no not me but, maybe soon...if I'm lucky right?  It's summer and it's time for dancing and time for music festivals.  I am trying to figure out how to get to a music festival we've gone to for 2o years...and if I COULD dance this summer, you better believe I'd be pounding the wooden dance floors with these stompers!  Balance and Swing sweetheart!

How to be alone...

 
This is amazinng.....I wish this for all of us....no more lonely hearts wasting away in basements.  Thanks to Lisl Meredith Huebner for sharing this....
You could be in an instant, surrounded if you need it, if your heart is bleeding, make the best of it, there is heat in freezing, be a testament... 

i'll know my name as it's cold again...

Farmers Market

Emma's friend Lexi, used a piece of Emma's music in a promo for The Coventry Farmers Market.  That was a nice surprise!