ACL Festival day One
This was the first time I'd ever been at the Festival for the very first (opening) act. This year had a local choir kicking of the festival. I knew that Stuart Murdoch of Belle and Sebastian would be joining the Barton Hills Choir kids to sing a few of his songs.
They're not our kids, but we still felt so happy for all of them to have such an awesome experience.
FRIDAY! look at all that space! This really is the golden time when the lines for food and bathroom are both short and crossing the park has fewer obstacles.
St. Vincent was a good show. I love her quirky-jerky robot moves and all the emotional freak-outs. She took to the audience and traded her guitar for a flag (there were many people with giant flags on poles). She thrashed about, waving the Colorado flag back and forth over the crowd, I don't think the pole survived. Then she was drug back to the stage where she collapsed and cried. good fun but the bass was a bit punishing from our location. We had earplugs and that really helped when a good third of the people in front of us fled while plugging their ears with their fingers.
people watching is always good entertainment between performances.
Stuart picked some dancers from the audience to join them on stage.
not shown, Jimmy Cliff was also pretty good.
We comfortably managed to catch four shows and it was good.