July 31, 2009
Posted by Arlene Martinez at 01:19:55 PM on July 31, 2009
At some point today the Morning Call is going to have a poll asking people: Should alcohol be served at Musikfest?
The question to me seems a bit dated. After all, for two decades plus the popular festival's been serving beer and wine and at some point added slushy low-in-alcohol frozen drinks. Walking down the street with your big ol' plastic mug of beer is as much a part of Musikfest as the music.
So with that in mind, we think the question should be -- Should Musikfest serve mixed drinks?
As reporter John Moser noted in his preview, bartenders will be mixing up gin & tonics, rum & cokes and other cocktails for the first time this year. No shots allowed.
To me, the change doesn't seem particularly significant. Any thoughts?
Oh and the weather is apparently continuing its relentless, wet march into Musikfest. Up to two inches of rain are expected along later with flash flooding in some spots. I'm reminded of Ray Bradbury's The Long Rain, where never-ending rain eventually drive several men insane. No worries of that happening here. It's too late. Ha.
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JOHN J. MOSER has been around long enough to have seen the original Ramones in a small club in New Jersey, U2 from the fourth row of a theater and Bob Dylan's born-again tours. But he also has the number for All-American Rejects' Nick Wheeler on his cell phone, wrote the first story ever done on Jack's Mannequin and hung out in Wiz Khalifa's hotel room.
JODI DUCKETT: As The Morning Call's assistant features editor responsible for entertainment, she spends a lot of time surveying the music landscape and sizing up the Valley's festivals and club scene. She's no expert, but enjoys it all — especially artists who resonated in her younger years, such as Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, Tracy Chapman, Santana and Joni Mitchell.
KATHY LAUER-WILLIAMS enjoys all types of music, from roots rock and folk to classical and opera. Music has been a constant backdrop to her life since she first sat on the steps listening to her mother’s Broadway LPs when she was 2. Since becoming a mother herself, she has become well-versed on the growing genre of kindie rock and, with her son in tow, can boast she has seen a majority of the current kid’s performers from Dan Zanes to They Might Be Giants.
STEPHANIE SIGAFOOS: A Jersey native raised in Northeast PA, she was reared in a house littered with 8-tracks, 45s and cassette tapes of The Beatles, Elvis, Meatloaf and Billy Joel. She also grew up on the sounds of Reba McEntire, Garth Brooks and Tim McGraw and can be found traversing the countryside in search of the sounds of a steel guitar. A fan of today's 'new country,' she digs mainstream/country-pop crossovers like Lady Antebellum and Sugarland and other artists that illustrate the genre's diversity.