Bend music scene

One of my few apprehensions about moving to Bend was leaving the Santa Cruz music scene. Santa Cruz has great live music and Karen and I would go out a lot there. Well, my fears have been misplaced thus far. I already wrote about seeing Dave Alvin. Last night we saw a double bill with two groups we really like: Shawn Colvin (folk) and The Cowboy Junkies (alt folk-rock). Tonight we got to see Laurie Lewis and Tom Rozum (bluegrass) for only $5!

Both shows were outside under the stars. It briefly drizzled on us tonight, but the clouds soon parted and we were treated to a wonderful double rainbow and got to watch the ducks and geese fly by. Later saw the moon rise, all while listening to a wonderful group of musicians.

To top it off, David Grissman is playing in town in two weeks and the Sisters Folk Festival is right after that! Not bad at all. I've been told that the music scene slows down a lot in the winter, but it seems that the summer more than makes up for it.