🚀 go-pugleaf

David Kaye wrote:
> Cubit wrote:
> 
>>So, what is so great about the state fair?  My local county fair is a mix of
>>stinky 4H areas, a building with quilts that have ribbons, and some
>>amusement rides thrown together with chewing gum by carny people.
> 
> 
> That's the California State Fair all right.  It's just a big version of
> the county fair.  They used to call it Cal Expo, but the promoters must
> have had pangs of guilt for calling such a moth-eaten event an "expo",
> so they dropped the Cal Expo name some years back.

  The Cal-Expo name is used for the race track. This year there will be 
no state fair meet but the regular harness racing that is usually there 
48 weeks a year will run.
   The harness people got tired of giving up four weeks a year to the 
fair (the fair racing was two weeks but they needed a week before and 
after to resurface the track).

> 
> But, if you're lucky you can meet Jim Hall from Yard Birds garden
> center.  He used to always DJ from there.
> 
> 
>>Last I saw the stage
>>show, they had brassy music from the 40s.  It is hot and dusty.
> 
> 
> Look for county fairs to start changing that.  A friend was
> experimenting this year with the Solano County fair, by bringing in
> local bands featuring country music, hip hop, New Orleans style, and
> even ALO and Chuck Prophet.
> 
> ALO (Animal Liberation Orchestra) is a particular favorite of mine as
> I've seen them evolve from playing 80-seat rooms to 1500 seat venues
> (and the bass player used to wait on me for lunch every day before he
> became a fulltime musician).  And they know no limits on genre.  They
> play everything from bluegrass to funk.  These guys will be major
> stars.
> 
> But the people who run the California State Fair will never get hip
> enough to book groups like ALO.  The California State Fair is a hick
> fair.
> 


-- 
   To reply via e-mail please delete 1 c from paccbell