Fun at Folklife 2002

Three Good Measures did not meet to Jam this past weekend, on the grounds that a significant number of us were going to be attending the annual Folklife Festival here in Seattle, even if we weren't ready to busk at it yet. The members of the Murkworks household, to be sure, have had this as an annual tradition for some time and we weren't about to skip it!

For those of you unfamiliar with Folklife, it is a huge folk music festival they hold here every year over Memorial Day weekend. It runs for four days, brings in hordes of people, and is chock full of musical goodness of dozens of varieties from all over the world.

We wound up not being organized to make a group outing of it, this year, though several of us wanted to go. Specifically, solarbird and I attended yesterday and expressed a goal between us of doing a bit more active viewing of the various musical acts this time around than we have done in past years, which have often simply involved wandering around the craft displays (though I make a point every year of visiting Romy Benton's flute table in the musical instruments emporium), eating fair food, and taking cursory glances at whatever performances we happen to pass. ( This year, however, turned out to have some added fun! )