The Arizona Bluegrass Association sponsored their first Bluegrass Festival this weekend in Apache Junction. Admission was free!
We walked over to the park with our chairs and enjoyed music from 10 am until showery weather sent us hurrying home at 3:30 in the afternoon! The overcast skies of the day were surprising, unusual and pleasant for concert goers but how heartbreaking the rain must have been for the performers and organizers of this inaugural festival - especially when the newspaper weather forecast read "0% of precipitation" !!!!
We listened to many great acts but the event of the day for us was the Jam Pak Blues 'n' Grass Neighborhood Band* seen here. It was so exciting to see these young folk making and enjoying traditional music!
*"In 1994 something new happened. Jam Pak Blues 'N' Grass Neighborhood Band was born in an otherwise quiet Chandler, AZ neighborhood. More than two decades later – with only shoestring funding – this multi-cultural, multi-generational band is going and growing ever stronger.
In the care of Anni Beach, founder and band leader, folk and bluegrass music has come alive for dozens of eager children. Enfolded in the love of music, community, food, travel, life experiences and love itself, growing numbers of otherwise contemporary kids are learning and making authentic American folk music." (from their website)
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