WEATHER REPORT
from Brooklyn
BRRRRRRR...
(and for all of you lucky people in sunny CA....now it's snowing, raining, sleeting)
and the work has piled up
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fish, Asia, and Alvin lee
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fish, Asia, and Alvin lee
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| 2 wedding commissions and one illustration sketch |
AND BACK TO WORK AT BLUE MOON FISH also BRRRRR...
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| Nothing is open at 6 am |
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| Setting up |
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| SHAMUS! |
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| LOCAL WILD OYSTERS YES, THEY DO EXIST |
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Almost end of day Peter Sturman and Susan Tai co-curated the exhibition "The Artful Recluse" at Asia Society now on view Bada Shanren is my favorite artist in the show |
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| NY Times Review of Peter's show at Asia Society! |
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| Saraswati Illustration for YOGA CITY NYC click to see the article published today |
and on another note
RIP
click his name to see him at Woodstock
Most people don't know that I was a rocker in my youth, Jeff Beck, Jimi Hendrix, Blues Project, Edgar Winter, to name a few of my favorites. It was a big disappointment that I wasn't allowed to go to Woodstock, even though I had a ride lined up and everything. My parents thought I was too young....15 (okay do the math), so just to satisfy my rock concert cravings I went to as many as I could from then on. I saw Alvin Lee and Ten Years After at the University of Hartford, in the gymnasium. It was February 1970. Maybe there were a couple of hundred people there, no seats but you could dance and get really close the band. It was fantastic.
That same year I saw Santana and Miles Davis together at Tanglewood, totally amazing!
The following summer I was 17, living in Paris going to the Sorbonne learning french after graduating high school and before going off to the University of Michigan Art School that fall. I lived at Cité Universitaire in the American House. A bunch of my Cité pals heard about a concert in Lincoln England, the Lincoln Folk Festival (click here to read from people who were also there) so we divided up and hitched there. I went with a guy I had just met, we got rides from truck drivers, slept in a tent on camp grounds and made it to Calais where we took the hovercraft over to Dover. We got to London somehow and then took the train up to Lincoln.We spent the night with about 200 other people, sleeping on mattresses on the floor of a salvation army building. The next morning I left my companion, who I didn't really like and met up with two British guys. It was about 5 am and they stole someone's milk from their door step which we shared and then walked to the concert site through the sleeping town.
We sneaked onto the site through a hole in the fence.
I remember the crowds and getting high and hanging out with these two nice guys. I loved the music, and wasn't too familiar with a lot of the groups, really being a rock and roll American girl. I remember James Taylor, and had hopes that Carole King would show, but she didn't.
Amazingly enough, among the 20,000 people there, in the days before the ubiquitous cell phone and gps my Paris friends found me! The next morning when the concert ended we hitched a ride with some locals to the train station, and managed somehow to get back to Paris. Someone had some money, I was broke
It was great fun, and I never told my parents.....hitch hiking was a big no no! Since I couldn't go to Woodstock this was payback!
I remember the crowds and getting high and hanging out with these two nice guys. I loved the music, and wasn't too familiar with a lot of the groups, really being a rock and roll American girl. I remember James Taylor, and had hopes that Carole King would show, but she didn't.
Amazingly enough, among the 20,000 people there, in the days before the ubiquitous cell phone and gps my Paris friends found me! The next morning when the concert ended we hitched a ride with some locals to the train station, and managed somehow to get back to Paris. Someone had some money, I was broke
It was great fun, and I never told my parents.....hitch hiking was a big no no! Since I couldn't go to Woodstock this was payback!
Here was the line up
•Buffy Sainte Marie
•Dave Swarbrick and Martin Carthy
•Dion
•Incredible String Band•James Taylor
•Pentangle
•Ralph McTell
•Sandy Denny
•Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee
•Steeleye Span
•The Byrds
•Tim Hardin
•Tom Paxton
•Buffy Sainte Marie
•Dave Swarbrick and Martin Carthy
•Dion
•Incredible String Band•James Taylor
•Pentangle
•Ralph McTell
•Sandy Denny
•Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee
•Steeleye Span
•The Byrds
•Tim Hardin
•Tom Paxton
