I Was So Charmed

First of all, this past weekend was really great. It has been way too long since I saw some good live music and I-fest really scratched my itch, as it always does. Everyone is always in such a good mood at I-fest and I always see music-loving friends that I only see once a year there! But the highlight of my Saturday was these kids: the Carolina Chocolate Drops! Holy shit. Oh my God. They charmed the socks off of me, and that is not the easiest thing in the world to do, musically! Me and the baby planted ourselves right in front of the stage and loved every minute of it and it was just pure luck that we were even at that stage to begin with, b/c minutes before that I had just happened to be bored and reading the I-fest program while waiting for the baby to finish making some glitter lion masks in the Kids' area and I happened to read the description of the "Drops." Fiddles? Old-timey music? 3 young black kids? I'm there!!! I was amazed and astounded. Some other friends of mine were in the audience too, which is always a sign that I've chosen my music wisely. Right up front there were several little kids dancing and soon the baby joined them! The Drops even did "Jack of Diamonds", an old-timey song that I have never heard done live before and I was so tickled! They each took turns on fiddle, banjo, kazoo, jug, and their harmonies were dead-on. DAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMNNNNNNNN... I had to give them a standing ovation when they were done. Later on they played at another stage and I dragged the baby over there so we could see them one more time. I was just sad that I had no $ to buy one of their CD's!!!

So it was a beautiful day out there, a perfect I-Fest day. The baby was a real trouper and beginning at around 6:30pm, only asked me about 5 times when we were going home. But I told her that I still had to see one more music concert, Buddy Guy at 8:30, and I distracted her successfully with frozen strawberry drinks, dipping our feet in a rock fountain, petting rescue dogs, and the duck pond. (As always, pic's as soon as my lazy ass gets 'em off the digcam.) This one guy said, "You're taking your daughter to see Buddy Guy? You know he cusses a lot!" But I replied that my parents dragged me around to stuff like that so if it was good enough for me then it was good enough for her. We only saw a song-and-a-half of Buddy Guy anyway b/c by that time I really was tired, though really happy!!! And the baby was too.

Next weekend at I-Fest: the Neville Brothers and Taj Mahal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!