we’re concerned about pig flu; we’re concerned about right wing extremist groups; we’re worried about declining bee & other pollinator populations…
turns out, one movie tied it all together–back in the ’80s! thank you david byrne:
in other-worldly garden news:
Galaxy’s centre tastes of raspberries and smells of rum, say astronomers
The hunt for chemicals in deep space that could seed life on other planets has yielded a large, fruity molecule.
and this may be my all-time favorite quote from an international publication (such as our beloved guardian):
Astronomers searching for the building blocks of life in a giant dust cloud at the heart of the Milky Way have concluded that it tastes vaguely of raspberries.
yessir. of rum and raspberries does heaven taste.
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oh. i just figured out what our problem is. or at least the new york times magazine did. thinks they did.
here’s the blurb:
Decision scientists are trying to figure out why it’s so hard for us to get into a green mind-set. Their answers may be more crucial than any technological advance in combating environmental challenges.
and more:
In analytical mode, we are not always adept at long-term thinking; experiments have shown a frequent dislike for delayed benefits, so we undervalue promised future outcomes. (Given a choice, we usually take $10 now as opposed to, say, $20 two years from now.) Environmentally speaking, this means we are far less likely to make lifestyle changes in order to ensure a safer future climate. Letting emotions determine how we assess risk presents its own problems. Almost certainly, we underestimate the danger of rising sea levels or epic droughts or other events that we’ve never experienced and seem far away in time and place. Worse, Weber’s research seems to help establish that we have a “finite pool of worry,” which means we’re unable to maintain our fear of climate change when a different problem — a plunging stock market, a personal emergency — comes along. We simply move one fear into the worry bin and one fear out. And even if we could remain persistently concerned about a warmer world? Weber described what she calls a “single-action bias.” Prompted by a distressing emotional signal, we buy a more efficient furnace or insulate our attic or vote for a green candidate — a single action that effectively diminishes global warming as a motivating factor. And that leaves us where we started.
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i was curious about what’s going on around town, chicken-wise.
i knew that there was some recent city council activity, but wasn’t sure of the details. so i got the skinny.
and here is the chicken update, courtesy of harrisonburg backyard chicken project participant, nicholas detweiler-stoddard:
Good Evening Jill and Happy Earth Day!
At the April 14th council meeting we were only able to briefly introduce who we are as a group (we were not on the official agenda). Our official presentation will be at the upcoming council this Tuesday the 28th at 7pm. While it does not appear that there will be space for public comment at this meeting, we are hoping to have a large number of supporters turn out to show their support by their presence.
At this upcoming meeting, the Harrisonburg Backyard Chicken Project will simply present its case for an ordince change and the council will vote whether or not to send this on to the planning commision to draft such a change. Once such an ammendment is put together, it would then be taken before another city council meeting (along with a time for public comment) to be approved.
We are expecting continued opposition from the Virginia Poultry Federation (on the 14th, Pres. Hobey Bauhan stood to express his deep concerns about the biosecurity risk our chickens will pose), but we hope to have Tad Williams, a poultry/CAFO inspector for the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ), speak to the relatively inconsequential disease risk that backyard flocks pose. We will present our reasons for keeping backyard hens, address some of the main concerns that have come up (public nuisance fears, biosecurity risks, and increased burden to city resources), and offer some specifics we think should be included in a pro-chicken ordinance.
If this does go through, HBCP hopes to offer itself as an active public resource for those interested in engaging in urban chicken keeping as a more sustainable means of connecting to their food sources.
See the attached document for some of the benefits of urban hens as well as a few of our suggested ordiance specifics. Also attached is a study by John Hopkins School of Public Health essentially debunking the claim that backyard flocks spread avian flu. The other is a study put out by GRAIN studying some of the real causes behind AI outbreaks in poultry flocks.
Thanks for your interest. If you haven’t already, check out the handful of comments on the mayor’s blog and leave some of your own! (http://www.whykai.com/tell-kai-why-chickens-or-not/).
Peace be with you,
Nicholas Detweiler-Stoddard
Harrisonburg Backyard Chicken Project participant
you heard the man! go post your opinions for kai’s reading pleasure.
also, in case you get involved in any backyard chicken debates around the water cooler, check out this great link from the aforementioned tucson chicken guru.
it neatly outlines four of the most popular anti-urban chicken stances (including those proposed by Hobey Bauhan, president of the Virginia Poultry Federation in the recent rocktown weekly article), and offers these myth-busting talking points:
- Chickens produce too much poop – the fact of the matter is that dogs and cats produce way more excrement in a week than a flock of four hens. And while the chicken manure can be converted easily into fertilizer to help your garden grow, for health reasons, you cannot do the same with dog and cat poop.
- It’ll cost too much to enforce an urban chicken law – the kind of people who want to raise chickens in their backyards for eggs are doing so (mostly) out of a sense responsibility for taking control of their food sourcing and reducing their carbon footprint. These are not the kinds of folks who’ll be requiring animal control to come out and bust chicken owners for too many animals making too much noise (see: dogs).
- Owning chickens means hosting salmonella in your backyard – the food safety folks have done a great job sensitizing the public to take care in handling chicken so as to avoid salmonella. The simpletons spreading salmonella fears as an argument against urban chickens don’t seem to understand that salmonella is a problem of safe food handling, not of responsible pet ownership.
- Backyard chickens will spread the bird flu – the fact is, it’s through backyard flocks that we might insulate ourselves from the spread of the H5N1 virus and the like that tear through the million-bird in-bred flocks of large-scale agribusiness. But, of all the arguments against urban chickens, this is the point most often deployed as an end-of-discussion “so there.”
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i just have to flex my editor muscles and respond to the numerous comments regarding jack brown’s in full post format.
so, what is all the resistance to excellence around here?
i am really surprised that you all are actively protesting AGAINST fueling our local economy and encouraging our community businesses to be something special instead of “what it already is.” i don’t know. but i think that energy spent preserving the status quo is usually wasted energy.
for example,
I don’t think Jack Brown’s should try to be more of restaurant than it already is – I like Jack Brown’s because I can go get fries with a burger and booze after midnight – and it is downtown! So please, keep being a beer and burger joint and you will keep me coming back…
and, in response to reader request for a veggie option,
jbs is going to do just fine doing things like they’re doing them. if you’d like to comment on downtown endeavours that are not destined for success, i think there are better targets. if you’d like to make what is or isn’t on a menu into an issue of diversity (or the lack thereof) (which for the record is kind of crazy), it might behoove you to consider what the word means before stating that the other restaurants all have very similar veg options and jbs should toe that line.
there were some good points about working a small menu and the reality of a small space. and i will have to disagree with johan regarding the rotating veg course idea because of these restrictions.
but, people, would you turn your nose at buns made across the street at shank’s bakery, and beef from T&E’s meat market? would those simple but excellent changes make you too uncomfortable?
how about some green inspiration? take a look at our neighboring towns – staunton is THRIVING because of numerous businesses with a local economy focus. charlottesville too. one of the best things i did all winter was stop at this guy’s little trailer near the downtown mall and buy fair trade hot chocolate and organic donuts from him on a very cold december day. short menu. small space. big ideas. inspired customers.
green. local. sustainable. community.
these are not words restricted to the bourgeois elite as some seem to insinuate. these are the future. the necessary future. for farmers. for the poor. for the rich. none of us will exsist long if we continue to believe that supporting and INSISTING on local, sustainable business is somehow elitist.
if you think this, you should meet some of the most vicious supporters of gardens, farms, and small business. they are far from rich. far from higher education. far from whole foods market luxury. they are all about survival. the appalachian tobacco farmers turning to organic micro-greens, potatoes, and peppers as a matter of blunt survival.
these people probably like a good, non-fancy, simple burger and fries as much as you. but if the product supports sustainable practices – and their livelihood – the farmers would probably be grateful.
i stopped off at the h’burg farmer’s market this morning on my way home from work.
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the scene was not of trust fund hipsters, be-clogged former hippies, and the upper crust. it was of working families. of mom’s chasing grumpy toddlers while trying to sell flowers. of old farmers with dirt encrusted fingers. of trying to make a living. of realizing that while costco and walmart are all about numbers, the farmer’s market is all about faces. and food. the nutrition we all need.
some of you commenters began rolling your eyes a long time ago. i know. you think i’m being dramatic. you think you know my type.
why not leave well enough alone? why use a new, innocent, pretty good burger place as a soapbox?
because i have a little guy at my house. he’s almost three.
and i know for a fact that i must fight and insist every step of the way on sustainability for his sake. sustainabiliy as a practicality. not just a neat hobby for do-gooders. literal sustainability. recession-proof sustainability.
so that beer, burgers, and fries in a locally-owned downtown establishment will still be an option for him when he wants to go out for a good time at 1 a.m. in twenty years.
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i just received an email reminder from edible blue ridge editor, natalie, that the new SPRING edition is out and about around town.
oh SWEET SPRING.
i have been found on recent early mornings, bleary-eyed from night shift, poking a finger around in my spinach patch (planted a bit late). just making sure that those tiny seeds truly are working they way the package (and my friend, daniel – who said, in his eloquent way, “stop worrying. shit grows.”) said they would.
so far, so good. but as someone who has always just gone to the nursery, bought transplants, and popped them into the garden, i am finding myself crazily skeptical of the whole seed business. my practical side and my histrionic side are in a battle.
over spinach.
i’ll let you know who wins.
meanwhile, get yourself down to one of these fine local establishments:
Artful Dodger Coffeehouse and Cocktail Lounge
Cally’s Brewing Company
Clementine
Court Square Theater
Downtown Wine & Gourmet
Earth & Tea Cafe
Harrisonburg Visitors Center
Joshua Wilton House Inn & Restaurant
Little Grill Collective
Shenandoah Bicycle Company
T&E Meats
and pick up your new copy – full of spring-ness – of edible blue ridge.
a friend sent a bbc article to me this morning. it was about a recent study. the largest study on homebirth ever done. just completed.
The largest study of its kind has found that for low-risk women, giving birth at home is as safe as doing so in hospital with a midwife.
Research from the Netherlands – which has a high rate of home births – found no difference in death rates of either mothers or babies in 530,000 births.
But a comparison of “low-risk” women who planned to give birth at home with those who planned to give birth in hospital with a midwife found no difference in death or serious illness among either baby or mother.
“We found that for low-risk mothers at the start of their labour it is just as safe to deliver at home with a midwife as it is in hospital with a midwife,” said Professor Simone Buitendijk of the TNO Institute for Applied Scientific Research.
“These results should strengthen policies that encourage low-risk women at the onset of labour to choose their own place of birth.”
let’s just pause for a moment to contrast that statement with the one from our own American Medical Association last year (with help from ACOG (American College of Obstetricians and Gynenecologists):
“That our AMA support state legislation that helps ensure safe deliveries and healthy babies by acknowledging of the concept that the safest setting for labor, delivery and the immediate post-partum period is in the hospital . . .”
okay. moving on.
and then the definition of “low-risk” mothers according to the study:
Low-risk women in the study were those who had no known complications – such as a baby in breech or one with a congenital abnormality, or a previous caesarean section.
local homebirth advocates, take note. as i’ve said before, maybe using similar definitions of “low-risk” would help gain support in our own system.
and the british take on the study. this caught my attention:
UK obstetricians welcomed the study.
huh?!! and then:
In the UK, the government has pledged to give all women the option of a home birth by the end of this year. At present just 2.7% of births in England and Wales take place at home, but there are considerable regional variations.
Louise Silverton, deputy general secretary of the Royal College of Midwives, said, the study was “a major step forward in showing that home is as safe as hospital, for low risk women giving birth when support services are in place.
“However, to begin providing more home births there has to be a seismic shift in the way maternity services are organised. The NHS is simply not set up to meet the potential demand for home births, because we are still in a culture where the vast majority of births are in hospital.
“There also has to be a major increase in the number of midwives because they are the people who will be in the homes delivering the babies.”
holy shit. that’s crazy. and unimaginable in the current U.S. healthcare system. can you imagine a similar government response here? the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists would hit the roof.
so, let me get this straight. the British government implementing an entire new program:
The Department of Health said that giving more mothers-to-be the opportunity to choose to give birth at home was one of its priority targets for 2009/10. A spokesman said: “All Strategic Health Authorities (SHAs) have set out plans for implementing Maternity Matters to provide high-quality, safe maternity care for women and their babies.”
to help organize the system into one that integrates homebirth into a safe, affordable maternity care system. and the system is the key. a safe system is necessary for safe homebirth.
those brits make it seem so easy.
apparently, ACOG and AMA have been unreachable for comment on this most recent study. or at least, i couldn’t find anything…
so much for evidence-based practice, folks.
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we stopped by harrisonburg’s new “beer & burger joint” the other night & posted a bit of review, a bit of commentary, here.
i appreciate the follow-up we received, and read some other pieces around the local press (the dnr, jmu eats). i stand by our conclusion: decent burgers, good beer, unfortunate lack of imagination.
kudos to short menus (this is why i’m worried about beyond, the new restaurant set to open around the corner, with its pan-international, sushi, etc. etc. cuisine idea–all good & tasty things, but can any one place, especially in harrisonburg, spread itself so thin?). when i saw jack’s a’comin i hoped for a little less jess’ quick lunch and for a bit more excentricity.
a start would be a rotating summer special: each week bring in a different ingredient from the farmers’ market (one week roasted asparagus, next week heirloom tomatoes, next week grilled squash, and please, god, ¡don’t let a burger joing keep on trucking w/out bacon!).
the local brahs who started this place got the idea half-way there: do just one or two things, but do them really, really well, and the public will love you.
nick cave said, “weep not for their evil deeds, but their lack of imagination.” i didn’t have a negative take on jb’s food: i had a fine dinner & drink. but if you don’t explore that imagination, who is going to stick w/ your smaller downtown spot when they can pick up a strip-mall sandwich from 5 guys or ham’s?
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i’ve been an infrequent blogger lately (too much music & preaching, w/ more to come).
but a few items have caught my eye–may i share?
first, right here in harrisonburg, folks have been starting the conversation about chickens. now, a predictable response coming down the pike from the poultry industry (as reported by andrew jenner @ rocktown weekly):
“Allowing backyard poultry to be kept in the city could pose a disease risk to the commercial poultry industry,” said Hobey Bauhan, president of the Virginia Poultry Federation, which represents the state’s commercial poultry industry.
Bauhan said that raising backyard flocks without the strict biosecurity precautions taken by commercial poultry farmers could increase the risk of outbreaks of avian influenza and other diseases.
“We are concerned about this issue from a biosecurity standpoint,” Bauhan said. “We are in the process of learning the details of the proposal and hope to have input as this issue is considered by the city.”
my knee-jerk reaction is to try to bring together resources and research to counter bauhan’s points (i.e., industrialization and centralization of the food supply has made american eaters more vulnerable to disease & attack). but after taking five breaths & thinking it over, the bottom line seems more about personal freedom & industry marketing–and bauhan would rather explore distracting arguments & scare tactics than talk about whether people have the right to raise for themselves (or just to buy from his employers).
anyway, check out our dear friend matt’s chicken musings over at chicken diction.
in farm-related news (as we discussed back here), the white house announced plans a couple months back to install an organic garden. great idea, right?
well, it made the folks over at MACA (the mid atlantic crop life association, a lobbying group for industry names like monsanto & dupont) “shudder.” evidently, michelle’s effort to revive & update the victory garden (a la michael pollan’s prescient letter before the election) opens a new front in this culture-war hot zone: technology vs. the hippies. & just look at those child soldiers:
and finally, in a blast from the 10-year-old past, it turns out marilyn manson wasn’t to blame for columbine. i saw this piece in yesterday’s usa today on the wall over the cally’s urinal:
They weren’t goths or loners.The two teenagers who killed 13 people and themselves at suburban Denver’s Columbine High School 10 years ago next week weren’t in the “Trenchcoat Mafia,” disaffected videogamers who wore cowboy dusters. The killings ignited a national debate over bullying, but the record now shows Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold hadn’t been bullied — in fact, they had bragged in diaries about picking on freshmen and “fags.”. . .
Contrary to early reports, Harris and Klebold weren’t on antidepressant medication and didn’t target jocks, blacks or Christians, police now say, citing the killers’ journals and witness accounts. That story about a student being shot in the head after she said she believed in God? Never happened, the FBI says now.
so i can’t believe everything they told me in chapel at eastern mennonite high school?!
this story, sobering & interesting as it is, would be more novel & distant if not for the recent spate of gun violence across the country (see democracy now!’s report on 60 deaths since march 10). it also reminded me of this classic michael moore clip (guest-starring joe leiberman!):
so, i was so pumped about the new jack brown’s beer & burger joint downtown that i requested it for my birthday dinner.
i can appreciate a good burger.
unfortunately, thin patties, crinkle-cut fries, and soggy buns don’t cut it.
especially when their website boasts this:
“Welcome to Jack Brown’s Beer & Burger Joint! Where we serve American Kobe Beef known as “WAGYU BEEF”. We are located at 80 S. Main Street in the heart of downtown Harrisonburg. Jack Brown’s, the concept, was established in 1985. We specialize in hand ground beef patties and homemade chili, a great atmosphere, and the local scene. Join us for a wonderful burger and a fantastic time.
sigh.
the decor, the staff, the idea…they are all lovely. the owners checked on us several times to make sure all was well. the bartender did over charge us by 10 bucks, but it was sorted out with little fuss. the wagon wheel and old beer cans were nice touches. the beer selection wasn’t bad – my dogfishhead 60-minute IPA was pretty burger-worthy.
AND, in general, i think that short menus are genius.
so here are my oh-so-humble suggestions:
short menus should give proprietors the flexibility to serve a few, really quality dishes without much work or overhead.
if i am going to spend $4.99 on a cheeseburger that i could have bought off the dollar menu at mcdonalds, i would absolutely spend $6.50 for a hand-shaped burger made with local beef, some nice cheese, and buns made at shank’s bakery around the corner.
that would be something special. something worth telling my friends about. something worth a birthday dinner.
another adjustement so incredibly easy that the owners should not be able to resist would be to cut out the Q101 dance-pop completely. as one of my dining companions noted: “more music from the 70’s & more blood in the meat.”
we went to the nile after our meal (to see a great, particularly sparse and tight set from the wolfgang) and talked about the new burger joint with friends. so far the reviews are firmly lukewarm. everyone seems a little bummed.
you say beer and burgers and our interest is peaked. now, you gotta deliver,
so, i’m not giving up on the place. it has so much freaking potential. just a few little, community-oriented, changes would have the town of harrisonburg – both the brahs and the hipsters – drooling.
this is amazing and fantastic, and not a little random. thanks to dan savage for the heads up on this speech by iowa state senate majority leader mike gronstal:
ah yes.
i haven’t actually watched the show on TV in a good 8 years or so. (but i may have been very dedicated at one point in college…)
and didn’t even know that it WAS the last season.
but, NPR informed me this morning that the last episode has come and gone.
and it made me remember hours of bouncing a sad little 6-week old eli on an exercise ball and watching episode after episode on DVD of mark, doug, abby, susan, and john. ER saved my sanity. it was an addictive and lovely escape.
so, i feel a little sad.
but there are always reruns.
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i want to go hang out in staunton.
and pick up some groceries here:
Local food tastes better and it’s better for you. Food purchased from mainstream supermarkets or big-box stores has been in transit or cold-storage for weeks. The nutritional benefits erode with time. By contrast: food purchased at George Bowers Grocery has less distance to travel. It can ripen on the vine longer. It comes to you in better condition and is better for you.
Keep money in Staunton. We hire and source locally. And, our business is partially the result of to an innovative local program that supports entrepreneurs (thanks, SCCF!). Spending money at George Bowers Grocery recycles it in our local economy. A dollar spent locally generates twice as much income for the local economy according to a study by the New Economics Foundation in London.
i noticied that this ADORABLE store was made possible by the staunton creative community fund.
The Staunton Creative Community Fund creates and strengthens socially equitable, environmentally sound, and economically viable enterprises through finance and development.
Loans to Small Businesses
We offer direct loans ranging from $1,000 to $35,000 for new and existing small businesses. We also partner with local banks to build your commercial credit and to meet all your business financing needs.
hmmmm….sounds like something that our own friendly city food co-op could use.
my mother-in-law, kathleen temple, recently forwarded me some email communication she had with FCFC board member, sam nickles. her original question:
hello Friendly City Food Co-op friends-
I haven’t heard a projection lately about when the co-op might procure a location and open the store. I am assuming no news means that the financing is still stalled. I would like to help to lobby the institution(s?) from which financing may come. Is that sort of lobbying already happening, such as with the Park View Credit Union? If so, can I help? If not, can I help get it started?
We are members of the co-op and also members of PVCU.
and the response:
Thanks, Kathleen, we’ll definitely take you up on your offer. Ben and I have been the primary ones talking to banks, maybe 5 or 6 direct conversations with banks and USDA Rural Development Program and others over the last few months. We could use help to set up some meetings and continue to push us ahead. Give me a call and I’ll fill you in more.
We have several key components that have to move ahead in a coordinated fashion, so it’s a give and push game — promotion and event work pushes up member numbers, membership numbers must hit a threshhold o 600 so we can go back to members for loans to raise enough equity capital, banks have to be negotiated with so we know what we need to do (know their varying requirements), support programs such as USDA loan guarantees can bring banks to the table, negotiating with potential landlords on the square foot leasing space determines our financial pro forma and thus our loan needs from the banks, and additional grant/loan monies we can get from the city and JMU sustainability venture competition and Coop500 and other sources reduces the debt loan amount needed and speeds up the closing process. So it’s very complex, and we’ve done a tremendous amount of work on this over the last year, but members just don’t hear all the details.
Finally, the economy has been the biggest staller, besides the fact that we’re only at 515 families and we need to be at 600 to start a loan campaign and at 750 to 1000 to go to closing (sign the final lease). So our work is cut out for us.
so…i think that members WANT to hear the details!
personally, i was much less frustrated after reading the article on the Friendly City Food Co-Op in Edible Blue Ridge. the piece stated something to the effect that it takes the average food co-op 10 years to get off the ground.
but the board of FCFC weren’t the ones to tell us this information.
again, i wonder if they need to re-think their business strategy. maybe talk to some of the NUMEROUS staunton businesses based around local and sustainable food that seem to be thriving…
or if you have done this already, let us know!
i was on the hunt for compost.
and found this:
and i called a farmer. dennis stoneburner, to be exact.
and i am going to go pick up a load of his well-composted manure after it dries out from the morning rains.
neat.
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this is a busy weekend in harrisonburg music (the daunting task of summing it up pushed back my pub. date for the calendar a couple of days). but wounded preacher pride aside, and with the help of mild winter’s ben, we’ve got some ideas for you, macrock & otherwise.
thursday (4.2.09)
the little grill – open stage – 8.30pm
clementine – snarky puppy – 9pm $7
twisted branch tea bizarre (c’ville) – joia wood w/raina rose and rebecca loebe – 9.30pm
gravity lounge (c’ville) – robinella & the bittersweets – 7.30pm $10
friday (4.3.09)
¡state sanctioned! the artful dodger – preacher, the wolf gang, red clay river, robin smith – 7pm-9pm ¡free!
macrock hits (check out ben’s macrock tips here): the little grill, clementine, the blue nile, simms school, & court square theater – times & bands here
gravity lounge (c’ville) – small fur, the hill & wood – 7pm $5
twisted branch tea bizarre (c’ville) – la strada, lovecrumbs – 9.30pm $5
the box (c’ville) – the points – 10pm
narnia house (macrock afterparty) – the super vacations, preacher, the tennants – 12am
saturday (4.4.09)
macrock: the little grill, clementine, the blue nile, the artful dodger, & court square theater – times & bands here
gravity lounge (c’ville) – the gourds – 8pm $20
sunday (4.5.09)
gravity lounge (c’ville) – bob mould – 8pm $20
monday (4.6.09)
clementine – “blame it on fidel” (movie) – 7.30pm
p.s.: plan ahead
4.9.09 – the little grill – danny schmidt
5.24.09 – fry’s spring beach club (cville) – bonnie prince billy
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ben’s words on macrock:
There are so many good bands playing this year at Macrock that it was hard to pick out a small handful to highlight. Make sure you check the number of local Harrisonburg bands that are playing this year: The Cinnamon Band, The Brooms, Elephant Child, Gifts from Enola, Savage Land, American Tourist, The Nervous Habits, Mild Winter, The Super Vacations & a number of other bands that have members who have lived in town in the past.
Other Highlights: Friday
Brainworms 8:30 – 9:00 The Blue Nile
Antlers 9:20 – 9:50 The Blue Nile
The Extraordinaires 9:20 – 9:50 Court Square Theater
Jonathan Vassar 8:00 – 8:30 The Little Grill Collective
Red Clay River 9:40 – 10:10 The Little Grill Collective
Saturday
Invisible Hand 2:00 – 2:20 The Artful Dodger
Whatever Brains 2:35 – 2:55 The Artful Dodger
Pygmy Lush (acoustic set) 4:00 – 4:45 Franklin’s
Algernon Cadwallader 4:25 – 5:00 The Artful Dodger
Snack Truck 8:30 – 9:00 Clementine
