Monday, May 02, 2005
Dia de los Choo Choos
Drove down to Tucson for the folk festival over the weekend. This year I spent more time in the backyard of the festival, behind the Tucson Art Museum where the workshops and ballad tree are, than out at the main stages. I took my Native American flute along for its first excursion, and wound up playing duets with Patty Arnold at her workshop, and later with a fellow running a jewelrey booth in the marketplace area, and even got some compliments from strangers despite the fact that I don't know what I'm doing. Funny the dumbek I've been carrying around for years never gets that kind of reaction - drummers don't seem to be very integrated in the folk scene in Arizona. Also, I found out Linda Lou Harris used to play bassoon in high school.
Points to remember:
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Drove down to Tucson for the folk festival over the weekend. This year I spent more time in the backyard of the festival, behind the Tucson Art Museum where the workshops and ballad tree are, than out at the main stages. I took my Native American flute along for its first excursion, and wound up playing duets with Patty Arnold at her workshop, and later with a fellow running a jewelrey booth in the marketplace area, and even got some compliments from strangers despite the fact that I don't know what I'm doing. Funny the dumbek I've been carrying around for years never gets that kind of reaction - drummers don't seem to be very integrated in the folk scene in Arizona. Also, I found out Linda Lou Harris used to play bassoon in high school.
Points to remember:
- Train traffic is much heavier in Tucson than in Phoenix. Near-continuous train whistles wafted a romantic ambience over the Festival.
- The Radisson City Center charges extra fees that you don't find out about until check-in. Among the services covered by these fees: parking, a newspaper that's not delivered on weekends, and "free local calls". I was very tempted to send out 15 faxes to random people, just so I'd be getting something for my money.
- The boundary between downtown and the 4th Avenue district is as convoluted and subtle as that between the mortal lands and Faerie; there is no way to get from one to the other without travelling in the opposite direction. I have no recollection of how I came to be driving west on Franklin when I started out going north on 4th Ave and never once turned or changed direction.
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