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Weekend feedback: Fest, bash, Mencia
One of those busy weekends in Waco where choosing one event means turning down several. I went to the Waco Cultural Arts Festival with my daughters, nibbling for an hour or so on Saturday and returning for a few hours more on Sunday.
Maybe the weekend’s great weather influenced my mood, but I really liked the new setting among the trees, greenery and riverbank views of Indian Spring Park. Seemed like more of the festival-goers were congregated around the art-making tents than the vendors or the amphitheater, but that’s usually where I hang out, too.
I’m always envious of how free and uninhibited kids are when making art. I get hung up planning my creations or projects, then even more bothered at the noticeable gap between vision and skill level. Not so with kids, who seem to jump in with both feet (sometimes literally) and go to it. That’s a lesson I continue to need and props to a festival like this that makes it possible.
Once my daughters were finished painting, being painted upon (props to those patient, brush-wielding volunteer face painters, btw) and molding clay, I caught the last half of the South Austin Jug Band’s set - some serious fiddling and mandolin going on there, all to the beat of a turbo-driven drummer. Earlier, MCC’s student jazz band showed some commendable chops as well.
That’s the part of the weekend’s entertainment that I sampled. Anyone want to share theirs? How was Carlos Mencia’s return show at the Hippodrome? Bob Bennett at the Jubilee Theatre? The weekend Biker Bash at Cameron Park East (and was the “Breezy Ride” scheduled for midnight Saturday what I think it was?)?
Comments
By escapewaco
September 24, 2008 5:25 AM | Link to this
It seems there were fewer artist showing their work this year then in past years. The music was culturally diverse, but did it bring in the crowd? The people I did see for the different musicians, less Brave Combo, probably don’t listen to the local Clear Channel radio garb that is played in Waco. These folks took a chance on something different to hear. If it is not familiar, folks around here don’t wanna hear it. Thanks Uncle Dicky for bringing the MCC Jazz kids out to play.
By escapewaco
September 24, 2008 5:32 AM | Link to this
Lets not forget Cousin Rob and Brother John from MCC.