Natalie and I went to Hampdenfest today. If you like live music, this is the street fair for you. There are 3 stages of bands playing all day. If you don't like the band on one stage, you can walk a 1/2 block over to the next one and check out that band. We got there just as the festiveal was starting, around 11:00 AM. I wanted to see the Jennifers and they were scheduled to start at 11:00 but they were late and didn't start till almost noon. They didn't play anything from the CD I have, Colours From The Future, but they were still great. I don't know if they were playing new stuff or what.The rest of the fair was fun. Typical stuff - Art & Crafts stands, Community Action stands, Food stands. One thing we really like is the good beer, Brewer's Art Resurrection Ale and Beacon Ale for $4.00 a cup, pretty reasonable for a festival. The Resurrection Ale is better. Hampden is an interesting place with a lot of characters. While I was sitting on a wall watching the Jennifers, there were a bunch of kids skateboarding on the 7-11 parking lot right behind me and nobody said boo to them. Skateboarding to live music - not bad. There's sex shop off the avenue, Sugar, and they had some interesting people walking through the crowd. I liked the girl in the skimpy outfit on stilts. I guess somewhere in the world that's somebody's fantasy.
Later on that afternoon, we saw Susan Alcorn and The Tritons play. Susan Alcorn did a solo act. She plays pedal steel guitar and I really enjoyed it but Natalie thought it was a little mellow and laid back for a place like that. The Tritons are a surf music band and they were really good. We left around 3:00.Photo of The Tritons by Chrissy Abbott. Photo of The Jennifers by Tim Heaney.
