All Ages

[saavedra77]

I only managed to get down to Folklife for part of the day on Sunday, and ended up spending most of the afternoon swaying and stomping at the very un-folksy Ska tent with sleepwhenimdead and sarrabellum. There was actually one fella there in Old School Ska regalia: black suit, black hat with a headrag underneath, white socks, one pant leg rolled up past the ankle. Then there were all these kids in pastels--some of them like junior-high-school age. I love how Ska bridges those generational divides--and convinces all of us that we can actually dance.

I wonder whether Mr. Old School's knees felt any less abused than mine, after the sway and stomp ...

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Re: ARGH!!!!

[saavedra77.livejournal.com]

I find Folklife varies a lot from year to year, but it tends to offer pretty diverse fare. You can of course always count on seeing a hippie contingent doing their drum circle thing, pseudo-hicks playing saws or banjos, dudes in kilts playing bagpipes. And then there'll be Tuvan throat-singers, Guatemalan folk-dancing, and whatnot. All pretty folksy, of course.

But then there's non-sequitors like the Ska stage ...

Re: ARGH!!!!

[sarrabellum.livejournal.com]

Dude. You corrected my link and didn't even look at the website? That's what you get. ;)