Glenn County Children's Fair

With the end of the first part of our west coast tour last week end I thought a week without shows would be nice...turns out when you're on the road the stuff around the house piles up. And since we don't have a maid, a Gardener, and the like the work falls on us, the homeowner.....so the new fence is section by section getting put up, the grass is getting mowed back down from jungle length to respectable crew cut length. The weeds are getting pulled, the office is getting cleaned up...HA....Too scared to tackle that one yet.
Well, Saturday brought us a little break in our break (we return to a heavy full load next weekend). We agreed to perform at an event just 45 minutes from home, the Glenn County First 5 group asked if we would do a stage show and strolling from 10 am to 2pm in Willows, CA.
It went swimmingly! We brought only 3 or our 12 4X8 stage sections and it was a good thing we did....it was a cramped area with quiet a few vendors and activities for the kids. It was a bit worrisome at the beginning because the seating (or standing) area in front of our stage was the intersection of the two roads where the event was taking place, and they had turned it into a kids obstacle course of sorts. So at 5 minutes to show start no one knew where to stand or sit. We set a travel cloth (covers props in the trailer) to sit on (the road was getting hot...it would reach 100 degrees). Still even with announcing it seemed no one was coming over. Then at about 1 minute 'til they showed up. We had a good sized audience for an event this size (the smallest event we've done this year).
Miles and Cynthia did the strolling and the little ones hit the vendor booths and amassed a fabulous booty of toys, pencils, coloring books, etc. One eye doctor booth gave away sticky eyeball toys....you know throw them at the wall and the stick...if you can get them unstuck from your hand. A shout out to Sierra, the office manager running the booth.
We ended up providing the sound for the event as they didn't have any other...well they did but they didn't have a sound guy to work it so we were the default. An older couple from the town did some singing using our stuff too.
Off to home after the clean up because Jugglin; Jim is coming home for a visist.
Cheers