Salmon Stock 2012

Salmon Stock 2012


                We left Seward on a crisp clear morning heading for Ninilchik for the second annual Salmon Stock music festival and to join and show support of our friends who brought their food cart down from Talkeetna at ‘EAT- a different kind of sandwich’. There were some road construction delays but that only gave us opportunity to take pictures.


                The Salmon Stock music festival started around two o’clock in the afternoon on Friday and ran into Sunday night with 30 different bands on three stages, two beer gardens, food carts, dancing and lots to do for kids, face painting, hula hoops, costume hats and masks, etc.
                The whole point to the music festival is to bring awareness and join forces against big corporate mining companies which if they succeed may end wild salmon runs which are integral to jobs, subsistence fishing, tourism, and a way of life. www.Salmonstock.org Woodstock-Salmon Stock. (Zero Waste Challenge, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, No Pebble Mine Pledge).
                Friday we scrabbled for a camp ground with the music already playing in the back ground.  By the end of the night Ozomatli had made their presents known and the music and the crowd erupted and joined the band members in a conga line. Most I my friends were in the line or protecting the beer garden.


That wasn’t enough and the festival had an additional late night show inside another venue. Coffis Brothers and the Mountain Men had played earlier and started up again at 12:45 am. They were followed by a great trio, Tim Easton w/ James Dommek Jr. Easton had a gal playing a very hot violin and the music ran into the wee hours of the morning.

Saturday some bands worth mentioning, Sweating Honey, The Whipsaws, Clinton Fearon, and Left over Salmon. There were more people for the Saturday performances than showed up for the entire festival the year before.  And the late night show was an all-star jam with many members of different bands including Great American Taxi, Leftover Salmon and many more.

Sunday fired up and Greensky Bluegrass lit the fire under dancer’s feet a little after mid day. Robert Randolf played and people waited until 7:30 to see him. It wasn’t a fun drive home but the recap was pretty funny.

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