Prehistoric dolphin with modern technology

Boneyard was un-freakin'-believable this past weekend.

Healing Works had the biggest attendance yet (we've been a part of the festival as long as it's been around), and people loved the band Essence that came to play for us. According to the woman who organized it, Ursula, people were dancing through the aisles to it! We even had people wanting to buy the art because they liked it so much.

Despite the rain on opening night, the concerts at late night spACE were top-notch and well-attended. late night spACE was in the Habitat for Humanity ReStore, a big huge venue that had the Boneyard symbol in it (this year it was a dolphin statue made out of household items like shovels and chess pieces!). The first act, vonFrickle (www.myspace.com/vonfrickle) was a prog-rock act that looked and played like they came from outer space! They filled ReStore with some shredding grooves and harkened back to the old glory days of prog (while still sounding very much original). The second was a marimbist (I think I discussed her in "Two Outta Three Ain't Bad," about the Pygmalion) who played really well and tackled that huge instrument like she was taking control of it. The third one was a really good psychedelic guitarist named Vernon Reid. He sounded like a high-tech student of Jeff Beck! (I'm not saying he's as good as Mr. Beck, but it sounded like he had picked up a thing or two about performing from him.) Definitely one to check out. And he's performed in the funky group Living Colour and the rap group Yohimbe Brothers (who were at Wall to Wall). Maybe he'll come to the next Wall to Wall Guitar Festival. I'd totally go see him (and the others) again.

The next day I went and saw Teatro Luna's play "S-E-X-Oh!" at Plym Auditorium. Teatro Luna is an all-Latina theater troupe from Chicago, and they are very very funny and open. They had come down to be part of the festival, and they got a good big crowd.

Next year is going to be hard to top.