Category: Jade Festival

Blogging Live from the Big Sur Jade Festival, Day 2

5:00 pm Zongo All-Stars!! WOOHOO!! Man can these guys play, The whole place is dancing!!
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Today, we celebrated the 80th birthday of a special friend of the south coast. Happy Birthday, Barbara! Here’s the special Bunny Cake.

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2:30 pm — and the music, dancing and fun continues:
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The Band, Rough House

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Great band and lead singer, Queen Coronation. I wish I could record them for you!

11:30 am – And next was the yearly belly dancing by Benat Serat
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10:00 am — drumming circle will begin in only moments. Posts throughout the day!
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Dick Horan leading the circle.

Blogging Live from the Big Sur Jade Festival

4:00 pm – sorry, I am SOO busy!
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This is luna’rion

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Dan Singer/Jud Davidson played some great music! Some of my faves.

3:00 pm – had some technical difficulties downloading photos onto my computer. I think I’ve resolved it.
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The band, Almazul.

1:30 am the main SCCLT information booth
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and Rose’s Roses:
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Noon –It has started … drumming circle saged!!
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Updates throughout the day!

Softly comes the night



Softly comes the night, originally uploaded by wind_dancer.

And so, tomorrow it begins … love, friends, good food, great music … and the JADE.

Jade Festival day after tomorrow

Lots to do ‘twix now and then … so, unless there is a fire or other emergency, the next post you will read will be Friday around noon from the Jade Festival, hopefully, with a photo of the opening of the Drum Circle, led this year by Tracy Morgan. Dick Horan has retired from leading the drum circle which he has done for most of the last 17 years. Thanks Dick!!

Oh, well. Things came up, and I put up THREE posts on 10/8. It happens!

Jade Festival Count-down!

Only 3 days until the 18th Annual Jade Festival begins, as so many of you already know. Woohoo! Are we getting excited? Last minute details being worked out, the gang is pulling together, as usual, everyone is working hard, and according to the weather report, we should have clear skies all 3 days!! One vendor had to pull out at the last minute, but was immediately filled from the waiting list.

I am going to try something new this year, and see how it goes. I am going to try a few real time posts to my blog throughout the days of the festival. Unfortunately, I cannot upload video, although I would like to. Maybe next year, when I have to pay for my blog anyway. Video capabilities come with the “paid” version. So, I’ll see how this works. I’ll be reporting it sort of like I did the Chalk Fire, but throughout the day. Wish me luck!

Jade Festival Vendors, 2009

As those of you who regularly attend our Festival every year know, most of our vendors come back year after year. There are a few changes from last year, but most of the vendors you have all learned to appreciate will be here. Here is this year’s vendor map:
Jade Fest Vendors B&W

Copies of the map will be available at the Main Information Booth, staffed this year by Rose Welch, Mollie Field, and bigsurkate.

18th Annual Jade Festival 2009

One week from today, the 18th Annual Jade Festival will open at noon on Friday with a drum circle by Tracy Morgan. The rest of the Entertainment Schedule for Friday looks like this: 12:45 Blackwater; 1:45 Almazul; 2:45 Dan Singer/Jud Davidson; 3:45 Johnathan’s Band; 4:45 Raffle/Announcements; 5:00 Project 41. Even more and different music on Saturday and Sunday. Come out and Play!!

NOTE: WE DID NOT MAKE OR SEND OUT POSTCARDS THIS YEAR!

Jade Festival Photos, Part 3

Here are a few more from the 17th Annual Jade Festival:

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dsc_9369A Matt Glassby creation (BTW, sorry I did not get the color on this quite right.)

dsc_9320Warren Doyle of the Big Sur Volunteer Fire Brigade speaks to a visitor.

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More Jade Festival Photos, 2008

And now, we get back to our regularly scheduled program, with more photos from the 17th Annual Jade Festival. The Chalk Fire gave us a break for the festival, and then came unhinged. I’ll be adding a few new photos to this post every day or so, until I get all the ones I want to share up.

Here are a few more photos:

My favorite sound man, Dan Singer