The rest of the festival was a great time for all! Thursday night into Friday morning it was quite rainy, and we experienced some big storms with absolutely amazing cloud-to-cloud lightening; you know the type that forks wildly through the sky - it was amazing to behold! The rain had one great benefit: it stayed cool and comfortable in the tent until pretty late in the day, and many of us took advantage of that and slept in as long as we could. It's great fun being in the tent with Orion - he can just rampage around while we doze. He makes a huge mess, but nothing in there is dangerous to him, so it's no problem! Our new tent is really nice, too. We got the Kingdom 6 from REI, with the attached 'garage' that the stroller and our foods supplies fit under. The tent itself is two rooms with a divider. The pack'n'play fits on one side, our bed on the other, with plenty of room for our clothes. We were quite comfortable in our space, and totally protected from the rain, so despite the somewhat nasty weather we were happy campers!
SCI's first show was Friday night, and we spent a good amount of time getting excited and ready for that. There was some frustration about music, however, as some of the groups that folks were particularly excited to see, like Bonobo, didn't show, and the schedule was all messed up for the day. It was hard to figure out who was playing where at what time. Another rather annoying element of the festival's line-up was that there just wasn't much variety. SCI and all the related bands were great, Galactic was awesome, but the electronic music was pretty much entirely dubstep. And for the most party the weight of the line-up was electronic music! We love certain types of techno music, especially most forms of House music. Dubstep, however, is not one of our favorites. It's sort of hard and dark, doesn't really inspire much dancing, and attracts a less-than-savory crowd. We were sick to death of dubstep by the time we left the festival on Monday. I think we've filled that quota for our lives!
String Cheese Incident was totally amazing through every second of their three performances. Friday is was a very solid set - but you could tell they were conserving energy. Saturday was definitely the highlight, and they rocked it! Then on Sunday the first half of the set was very bluegrassy, with musicians from Railroad Earth and the Infamous Stringdusters coming out for a good picking jam! The second set of the third night went back to rocking out, and they let us down easy with a sweet, slow song for the encore.
We had a great time all throughout!
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