Yesterday afternoon K and I attended the First Annual Ft. Worth Music Festival. What began as an awful experience ended up to be a lot of fun. What a cluster f__k! We had VIP tickets which promised us comfortable lawn-furniture-style seating with our own air conditioned rest rooms and a private refreshment vendor. Turns out the VIP section was WAY off to one side....there was actually General Admission lawn seating between us and the stage. Our private restrooms were 3 porta-potties and our lawn furniture seating was just cheap folding chairs.
We felt like $75 per ticket for that was totally out of reason. Many of us complained to the event organizers and they very graciously apologized and told us to contact them via email and they would refund our money. We will, but we'll ask that they just charge us for General Admission instead as we did stay the evening.
But then we got to looking around and decided it wasn't that bad. The weather was gorgeous, the crowd wasn't too large, and the music was very good. The best food truck had hot dogs, but at least they were gourmet hot dogs. (Chili, New York, or Chicago style.)
Finally our favorite band came on stage: The Marsha Ball Band. Here's "Long, Tall, Marsha Ball" herself. ^ (Guess what kind of beer we drank? )
That girl can flat tear up a keyboard! WOW!
Apparently this airship driver was a Marsha Ball fan, too.
All in all, things turned out great. The beer was cold, my Chicago-style dog was filling, the music was rockin', and my date for the evening was just amazing. (Thanks for a wonderful b-day present, Lover. ;)
Then there was the one that almost slipped under our radar: Today was the Cottonwood Arts Festival in Richardson. Fortunately we are on the mailing list for one of the participating artists and his mailer reminded us.
We were there shortly after it opened this morning at 9. In contrast to the Foat Wuth event of the previous night, this was the most organized, efficient affair I've ever attended. Kudos to them. And the weather? Have I mentioned how much I LOVE AUTUMN?
Even the normally sun-averse K enjoyed catching a few rays. After all that, a grandson's soccer game (their play reminded me of watching a knocked-over ant farm) and now home for some college football on TV. What a nice weekend. :)
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