Make no mistake, we meant to do it!
Saturday night we started off the evening selling tickets at the Baker Street Center (formerly C2G Music Hall) for The Accidentals. They are a phenomenal indie/alt/folk-influenced/pop-rock power trio, and we have seen them numerous times. Unfortunately, on this beautiful summer night, there was A LOT going on in town! It was a pretty small crowd at this venue that normally caters to old blues groups. And, apparently like a lot of other people, we decided to venture elsewhere. So after our allotment of tickets had been accounted for, we headed a few blocks over to the public library pavilion.
Rock The Plaza is one of our favorite things to do. It is free, outdoors, right downtown, and there are usually four bands every Saturday night in summer. This year was a shortened version (just three weeks in August), and we didn't want to miss it.
Irony would have it, and much to our surprise, but when we arrived during the third act of the evening, we had no idea the closing group was The Accidental Blues Band. Ha! What are the odds??
On just about any other night we would have stayed and listened to the first group - and enjoyed it! But we are blues lovers at heart. I would also prefer to listen to music I am familiar with. Especially when relaxing with a beer at an outdoor venue. So, for me anyway, a decent cover band is equal to or better than a great band playing originals (and waaaaay better than a mediocre band playing originals).
This coming weekend will be another with too many musical options and not enough time. I guess you could say we're a bit spoiled.
So, we were not accidentally treated to another weekend of great music in Fort Wayne... we totally hope to do it as much as we can!!!
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Isaiah 45:18
"For this is what the Lord says—
he who created the heavens,
he is God;
he who fashioned and made the earth,
he founded it;
he did not create it to be empty,
but formed it to be inhabited—
he says:
“I am the Lord,
and there is no other."
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