Showing posts with label alaska music festivals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label alaska music festivals. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

It Was a Business Trip... Really! Chickenstock Music Festival

Rather than manning my usual booth at the Farmers' market I decided to attend a little music festival out in the Alaskan boonies. Chickenstock Music Festival in Chicken, Alaska.

Chicken is an old gold mining town from the early 1900's
The old dredge site made for some picturesque camping.
I had been approached last summer by the proprietor of the Chicken Gold Camp in regards to selling  my jewelry in their gift shop. Lots of adventurous tourists pour through the town on their way to and from Canada on the Top of the World Highway and the Taylor Highway.
I saw it as an excellent excuse to personally deliver the goods.


They constructed this nice & funky stage for the performers.

This massive chicken sculpture was delivered to the site all the way from Homer, Alaska, 100's of miles away. I heard they could only drive 20 miles an hour with the load. that's 616 miles or 991 km!


more of the stage and a sculpture

It got fairly warm during the day but I sure missed the huz in my little teardrop trailer when it dropped down to 40 degrees at night (5 C)
Some of the revelers nearby my parking spot... a very Alaskan scene

View from the Teardrop trailer...a gal's got to nap a bit to keep up with the younger folk.
I'm wild about that barkcloth fabric that I got in Tucson... so retro
What 'rustafarian" wouldn't like these chickens?

I actually made some sales out of my trailer too that ended up paying for my gas and ticket, making it a very worthwhile trip for sure



Monday, June 6, 2011

A Little Bit of Fun in the Midnight Sun



 We took Memorial Day weekend to attend a little known Music festival in Mendeltna about four hours down the road. This photo was taken at about 10:30 PM
Good music and friends

 I can never get enough of that glowing sunset that lasts three hours and then turns into a three hour sunrise 
 That's our lowly black spruce in the background which firefighters call  "gasoline on a stick"
Pretty impressive when a massive stand of those go up which they do when lighting strikes...
all part of the ecosystem here.

A plane landed on the highway and pulled over to attend the festival...
not so uncommon here.


Aditi & Cassidy... Guess which one is related to me


Heading home with the teardrop...
next stop the "Chickenstock"
the little bluegrass festival in the little remote mining town of Chicken.
It sleeps two and has a little kitchen area in the back.
( not the town of Chicken. I think that sleeps about 100, I mean the Teardrop Trailer)