Tuesday, August 23, 2011

WEDNESDAY NIGHT MARKET IN SANTA ROSA

THIS OUTDOOR NIGHT MARKET IS ATTENDED BY ALL AGE GROUPS AND A WIDE VARIETY OF PEOPLE. THEY HAVE ORGANIC FARMERS SAMPLING FRUITS AND ALL KINDS OF VEGIS AND CHEESES. THEY ALSO HAVE SEVERAL MASSAGES. AT THE STANLEY MUSIC FAIR THEY HAVE CLARINETS, ELECTRIC TROMBONES, TRUMPETS,PIANO,BASE, TAMBOURINES, AND DRUMS. THEY PLAY A MEDLEY OF TUNES. ANOTHER ON STAGE BAND WAS DRESSED LIKE CLOWNS AND HAD MOP HEADS. THEY PLAYED 80'S POP ROCK MUSIC AND PEOPLE WERE SHAKING THEIR BOOTIES. I SPOKE WITH PEOPLE ABOUT MOSQUITO CONTROL REGARDING OUTDOOR FOUNTAINS. THEY SAID NO PROBLEM AS LONG AS THE WATER IS MOVING.

ANOTHER MUSICIAN WAS PLAYING FOLK ROCK MUSIC AND PEOPLE WERE EATING ALL KINDS OF FOOD. I MET SOME FRIENDS FROM WINDSOR AND ONE OF MY SON'S MUSIC TEACHERS.

THE KIDS HAD MANY ACTIVITIES SUCH AS CLIMBING A TALL IMITATION ROCK. JUMPING WITH A SAFETY BELT, FACE PAINTING, BALLOON MAKING, AND THEY COULD MAKE INEXPENSIVE BEADED JEWELRY AND PAINT ON CHEAP CERAMIC VESSELS.

THERE WAS AN UNSUAL STREET PERFORMER WHO SOUNDED AND LOOKED JUST LIKE THE MAIN PIRATE IN "PIRATES OF THE CARRIBEAN". HE DID SOEM MAJIC TRICKS AND HAD A GREAT AMOUNT OF JUGGLING ACTS. ONE WITH SWORDS. ONE WITH FIRE AND ONE WITH VARIOUS OBJECT AND HE TOOK A BITE OF AN APPLE AS HE JUGGLED FOUR OBJECTS! ANOTHER TRICK HE DID WAS HAVE A MAN FROM THE AUDIENCE WRITE HIS INITIALS ON A TWENTY DOLLAR BILL. HE HAD SOMEHOW GOT THAT BILL INSIDE THREE LOCKED BOXES THAT FIT INSIDE EACH OTHER. HE HAD THIS MAN UNLOCK THE BOXES AND IN THE SMALLEST BOX WAS HIS BILL! IT WAS MAJIC!

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