Farmers Market gigs

Lynn and I were in Prior Lake Saturday playing the Farmer's Market with the 'Rhubarbarians'. The Rhubarbarians is a band headed by Bob Estes that have been playing for many years. However, only Bob and Tom like to travel to Prior Lake, so Lynn and I often guest. The common repertoire are a number of dance tunes that we also play at Danebod Folk camp. Tom has a number of folk/pop numbers which we jam along with;and Bob and Tom 'jam' with us on the Bob-i-Lynn tunes. Since I have a number of relatives that live 'South of the River' (the Minnesota river), I usually see a few of them. I also went to high school in Shakopee (which borders Prior Lake), so will sometimes see an old high school friend or two.

This was our first farmers market of the year and was especially fun since we had had to cancel our appearance at MBOTMA's homegrown kickoff the previous weekend because of a family emergency.

The weather had been threating and we even had a few sprinkles just before we set up; however, the skies cleared and there seemed to be a bigger 'crowd' than usual.

Although, in the past we have brought our plug-in sound system (with two long extension cords), we've now moved to a total battery powered system. Bob got a Crate TAXI system which he has jerry rigged to have 4 inputs (2 is usual), I have a Pignose and Tom has a Vox system so we had 6 inputs going. This seems to be enough for the venue.

My sister and brother-in-law showed up and Lynn and I visited Otto's mother Norma afterwards.

On Sunday, Bob had scheduled the regular band at Kingfield Market in Minneapolis; however, Dave couldn't make it and Joe and Tom had to leave early. Lynn dropped me off on her way to church; when she came to pick me up it was just me and Bob (we renamed ourselves the Rhu-bob-arians) -we took a break and Lynn joined us for a few last songs.

Good to be playing again - we'll be at Prior Lake again on July 5th and Lynn and I are playing the Stone Arch Festival Saturday, June 14th at 12:15.