jazzfestiness

it's that time of year again!

jazz fest!!

matt and i hit up the festival today for the jazz madness kickoff. we saw the mardi gras indians (creole wild west tribe), a brass band parade, alison krauss with robert plant, and ozomatli with chali 2na who were awesome- (thanks ben for the suggestion).. who got down into the crowd and paraded around, then formed a little band circle right in front of us and played for a while. it was pretty awesome. they also let members of the st. augustine marching band perform with them (freaking rocked).

oh, and as a bonus, we got to hang out backstage at the fais do do stage with my co-worker chuck (who can be easily spotted wearing his highly visible fluorescent orange jazz fest hat and feathers). we hung out and listened to dwayne dopsie for a bit while we hydrated and dehydrated (if you get my drift).

the weather was great, the food was great, and the music, well... of course, great.

here are some photos i snagged with my phone:


here's matt in the crowd with ozomatli


here's ozomatli performing with the st. aug band in the crowd


me in the crowd with ozomatli & the st. aug band


alison krauss and robert plant


me and terrence simien (with his grammy!!)-
that's right, be jealous of my grammy holding abilities



i'll be headed out there with rennie on sunday (for sure) for the voice of the wetlands allstars and tim mcgraw. should be awesome (and wet- supposed to rain... wish us luck)!!

oh, and if you've never been... you GOTTA come... you just GOTTA!


and by the way.. if you haven't already heard, my good friends valerie and dustin are now the proud parents of little baby brylen james parkhill weighing in at 7lbs 14oz and 20 inches long. he's happy, he's healthy, and he poops. what more could they ask for?! congrats val, dustin, and big sister katelynn!! -you can view photos of him in my myspace photo albums at www.myspace.com/mistymacrocks

g'night y'all!