Comments on So You Missed Folklife?
If I would have known that upside-down ride was there, I'd have done it, again! We rode that thing at Puyallup a few years ago and it was the bomb! 30,000 cents well spent for me and her. Total fright, total view of the valley as we dangled on top waiting for the other riders to exit/enter at the bottom.
The upside down ride lives there. No need to brave hippies to ride it, you can catch it all summer long.
You guys seem to have mistaken the Fun Forest for the Folklife Festival (I know, double F's are challenging.) If you really wanted to show what Folklife had to offer, you should have embedded yourself in the cacophony of the north fountain lawn between the hippie drum circle, bagpiper Don, and the Toucans.
Yeah, uh, this isn't Folklife at all. Even the guitar gnome was sitting outside the festival gates. Trent, what a bummer... you should have ventured beyond the fun forest and fried-food row.
I ate grilled salmon and strawberry shortcake while sitting on the grass and watching kids play. It's like Bumbershoot with half the crowd and without all that tired indie-rock.
and did anyone see the adolescent boys, one wearing a gorilla mask playing a bongo, the other playing an electric guitar not plugged in, doing zepplin covers? (or more probably the same song over and over) that was RAD! ...totally made my day.
"Guitar Gnome" hangs out in the same spot across from the North entrance to the Space Needle just about every weekend of the year, so, like most of the images in this video, he's not a Folklife-specific spectacle either.
This all looks like folklife to me. I went to Folklife and saw all this stuff, did the ride, ate the food, and my kid and her friend did laser tag.
I'm thankful Trent didn't put the neo hippy latino jam band music on here.
Amy Kate,
Uh, let’s see, the Folklife Festival is held AT the Seattle Center. When I was there, I talked to about 20 people and asked them what they were going to see and do at Folklife, and about 15 of them said they were hitting the rides. So for them, and me, and probably hundreds of other people walking around Friday night, the rides were part of Folklife. I didn’t know it was wrong to group them together.
And I did get into the grounds, (see tattoo tent, tea tent, foods, and Mohawk girl), past the fun forest and the fried food row, but didn’t see anything that isn’t at Fremont Market every Sunday. I also didn’t think Stranger readers would want to see drum circles, World Beat Manifesto, or Children of the Revolution footage. All snoozers if you ask me. People are harsh enough in comments, what do you think they would have done if I had put a bunch of bongo players, hacky sackers, Latin Soul, and the Traditional Argentine Folk flute guys that play every weekend around town?
My main event was the Friday Night Story Telling Concert in the Center House Theater, which I believe based upon classifications, is Folklife specific.
I saw some amazing poets and storytellers. Especially, Auntmamma, who whips up all this Virginia based lore with fire and heart, but as a gay, southern belle, she’s conflicted and her extremes and voice boil out the sweetest words I think I’ve ever heard in my life. A real gem, she is. Glad I saw it, haven’t stopped hearing her drawn on voice in my head.
I’ve got over 30 minutes of footage of her, if you want to see. I try to keep my little videos on the shorter side, because I know attention spans are short and people don’t have a lot of time during their day to watch spoken word. I really wanted to put her in my video, but 10 or 15 seconds of her speaking wouldn’t have done her justice and I think would have been out of place.
I walked all around the Festival, the guitar gnome was so entertaining to me, more so than a lot of what I saw, that I went back out and got more footage of him.
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