Hot August Blues Festival (Page 2 of 6)

I'll let Eva describe her reaction when I told her that The Goddess will be playing relatively near-by the next day.

We're still a way off, but I thought we'd start with a head count so that the local hostesses (Cathy and Jane) can get some idea of what kind of masses they'll be dealing with. Feel free to add or remove names from this first list.

Cathy
George
Jane
Eva
Günther
Sandy
Tom
Shreddy
Vik
Eric
D i c k and Dana (not forum members but were at RAH)

Haha, first: speechless for a second about the cowinkydink, then: screaming.
HAVE to be there. The Goddess !!

Eva

Well I'm in a quandry.  I love Bonnie Raitt, I've only seen her live ONCE sometime in the mid-90s (with Bruce Hornsby, in Hershey, whenever that was)... it was awesome and ranked up there with some of my all-time favorite concerts, I've always wanted to see her again, and just within the past few months I told myself I was going to make a point of it and started checking her tour schedule (which was just developing at the time).  But as perfect and fun as doing the 8/16 Wolftrap show with all you guys sounds, I don't think I'm gonna make it.  One of HAB's selling points for me (besides the great line-up and price) was that it's an easy in & out for me, just a 1 1/4 hrs each way, no lodging necessary (can't afford it).  But at this point, even if I worked out lodging, I'm gonna have my son and his girlfriend with me for HAB, and getting a ride with me was a big plus for them, so I'd hate to tell them now that they'll have to drive themselves.  I could make a separate trip down on Sun, but Vienna is 2 hrs 20 min each way.  Another thing is, if I do end up doing Joe's show at Penn's Peak on Fri 8/14 (2 hours each way), between that and the fest all day Sat, I'm probably gonna be too tired to do anything on Sun.  I've scheduled myself like that a few times recently and have come to the conclusion I ain't as young as I used to be, haha.  Bonnie's other tour dates that would be feasible for me would be Williamsport on 8/6 or Philly on 8/8 (both 2 hrs away), and I think I'm free either of those days, but I probably wouldn't have anyone to go with me and that sure doesn't sound as fun as going with all you guys.  I bet I'd end up just skipping it altogether, and I really do want to see Bonnie again, before I miss my chance... I mean I know she's doing great for her age, but still, you never know.  So there's my quandry... I don't know what to do.  Oh, and add to that, no matter where I see her, I'd only be able to afford the cheap lawn tickets, which kinda sucks, between being so far back and taking chances with weather.

Oh, speaking of tickets... I was checking out the ticket situation at Wolftrap... seems there are only 2 price levels for Bonnie, $48 in-house (which is much cheaper than the other venues I checked out) & $30 lawn... however the $48 in-house tickets are sold out already (I just called their box office and double-checked).  They said there's about 500 lawn tickets left as of now, but it'll probably sell out by then.  Also there's a chance some seats under roof might become available closer to showtime, but no guarantees.  So how does everyone like the idea of taking a chance with the weather?

--Vik

Spider (Andy) will be riding shotgun on my coach.

Also I'm pretty sure that Jack (Fuzzy Wuzzy) and his son Ben (Got Mule) will be there too.

Carl, I'll have #024 along; hopefully I can corner Joe for a few minutes to get it upgraded...

I'm sure I'll have room for a head in the truck, getting a speaker cab in too might be a trick but we can work that out.

George I'm pretty sure that Dean and Melissa and the kids will be there too.

I don't think Ken and I will be able to make Bonnie's show, but we're still planning to be at the Hot August Blues Festival and looking forward to meeting all of you.   

George,

The only seats for this show are lawn seats just to let everybody know. Depending on whether i can get off that nite i would be up for this show too. Bob

Depending on the costs not being too silly, and being able to secure my wife a visa in time(shes is from Thailand), then we are planning on taking the plunge and making the trip Stateside for 5-7 days I'd put it as 50/50 right now.

Thing is, neither of us drive, shocking I know, but it is what it is How much of a pain in the behind is that going to be? Added costs as well.

Hope to have all my plans done and dusted by the end of this week, possibly the week after, just waiting on my Mother confiming she can get time of work to sit the kids for a few days, although if my boy was a little older(8 weeks now) I would have brought em along, shame!

Can meet the peeps I missed in London

Hope to be there, literally waving a flag for the Manxies

tewker