Blesstival …. Restival …

worldOnelove sunflower power was in full blossom and effect in El Cerrito Cali this July 3-4 …

THANK ya’lll to all who made the trip to the Bay Rim  ….  for a glorious couple of days together grazin in the grass …. Appreciation to Rocky Dawuni and Dwight Tribble, Lisa Schultz and Willow, who otherwise reside in LA …

A festival is a rather huge undertaking, and this year we again grew incrementally all around .. which means beautiful and sometimes painful lessons …. sound and staging, managing thousands of people, and some unruly pets, and the unexpected golf cart crash  …

Thank you City and citizens of El Cerrito !  and for all the extended positive vibrations and well wishes ….

Highlights are many, and different for everyone. From the intimacy of the opening solo performance of Folkster John McCord through all the scene and sound changes all day  …. through the evening salsa jam …. kids frolicking and crowd skankin ….  vacilando !

I’ll mention here that, at one point in the day … Gamelan Sekar Jaya had assembled on stage .. in royal purple “Nehru” jackets  and sarongs and flowered head wraps …  and had EVERYONE enthralled in shimmering Balinese musics and classical costumed, nearly fantasmagoric  dance … on a neighborhood baseball field … the spirits had been invited and descended/emanated,  palpably …

I almost could not believe my ears and eyes … the trees, flags, light and breeze seemed to conspire …. Everything was taken /caught up in it …. my beloved wife and co-producer Debra Sue came into the sound tent … and burst into showers of unrestrained, exultant tears …  we kissed and swayed .. and engaged in deep sparkly eyes technique …

Country … Reggae … Hip Hop … Berber … Jazz …. eye to eye and soul to soul allaround  … nice nice nice ….

As Michael Roman said …the festival was a worldOneradio show in 3D ….all the messages and musics unfolded into a life affirming beautiful spectacle …

Been repairing and repacking all this last week … its nearly a wrap …. and finally getting some much needed non-list oriented sleep  …. What a blesstival … now,  restival ….. = : ) ~