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First of the season

On Wednesday it was the first River Rhythms (free live music in the park bring your own booze) of this season.
In the past couple of years the first two weeks have been cancelled due to bad weather.  We can get some pretty fierce storms at the start of summer over here.
Last year they had scheduled two really good bands for those first two weeks, which were cancelled, meaning we didn't get to see them.
It seems this year they decided not to put the best ones on first.
I think they put the worst one on first.....or I bloody hope so because we won't want to see anything worse than this lot were.
Again, I am sure they were all brilliant musicians, but their songs were so dreary and miserable I was worried about anyone in the audience, who might be depressed, going home and cutting their wrists.
Every song was a long whine.  It seemed to be some sort of mix of Indian and Arabian music.
They looked mismatched too.
There were 8 in the band and each one looked like he should have been somewhere else.
It ranged from the guy at the back with his coolie hat and very long dreads, to the guy at the front, on the guitar, wearing a suit and tie and looking like he had come straight from work.
Most peculiar.........as were the attendees.

This guy had some pluck.
Swanning around in a Harley Davidson t shirt and a skirt.  Oh I expect he would have said it was a kilt but it looked like a skirt.

Looks like Charles Manson was enjoying himself.
I hadn't realised they had let him out.
The band seemed to be right up his alley.

Hat.
Some people excel at hats.
This one was brilliant.  I would have no idea where to even go to find a hat like that.

Maybe the hat lady was trying to compete with Mr Dreadlocks and his hat.
It would be tough to choose between them.

It is bad when one of the mounted policemen bogs off and leaves his horse behind.
Just look at all the happy, smiling faces here.   Oh they are having a whale of a time.

Well, we stayed until almost the end, but it got to be that one long, wailing song drifted into the next until you couldn't tell if one had ever ended.
We had caught up with Gary and all his news, so we decided to call it a night and go home.
It had started as a very warm evening but turned a little chilly later.
On Thursday night, Jazz in the Park, which is across the river from River Rhythms, got rained off.
It has always seemed before that our Wednesday event got cancelled and then Thursday would be great for Jazz in the Park.
We stopped going to Jazz in the Park some years ago when it got too crowded, too difficult to park, too many rules and regulations and you were no longer allowed to bring your own booze but had to buy it from them.
River Rhythms is much more easy going.   More characters there too.

Bubba isn't doing so well again.
I fear the decision will have to be made next week.
Poor old boy.

posted by Sue Banks @ 11:32 AM