Woofstock
 


San Felipe, Baja, Mexico

The San Felipe Animal Rescue's Woofstock drew good attendance this Saturday (April 12, 2008). The grounds behind the ejido Salon Social were salted with canopies and pavilions, providing shade for food stalls, artist and craft presentations, a silent auction and a glacier of ice behind tables that sold cold beer, sodas and water bottles to the thirsty crowd.

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Entertainment was provided by our local Vatos Locos and the Agave Blues Band, as well as an imported variety of musicians and comedians. The comedy, rather limbic in quality, might have been more at home at a 2am dimly lit public LA catacomb with the requisite preliminary of 14 whiskies and 5 hours of inhaling ribbons of cigarette smoke. As it was, the bright afternoon sunlight and the faux '69 Woodstock environment, replete with a healthy turnout of tie-dyed T-shirts, head bands, long hair and even a psychedelic Volkswagen van, seemed a little unseasonable for the abrasive monologues. The "breakfast in bed for 400,000" theme of the original Bethel, New York event was down-sized to tacos, burritos and hotdogs a-la-carte for a few hundred. But the music was good and several people, like their echoes almost 40 years ago, invited themselves front-stage and moved with the beat of old rock favorites.

Over 500 tickets were sold for the event. Eileen Crimada, a generous patron of the Animal Rescue, won the draw for a Mexican Riviera cruise for two.

Interleaved with the afternoon's activities were the weigh-ins for the evening's UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championships) events, to be held at the Rockodile.

All in all it was a successful affair, enjoyable for the music and the familiar faces that peopled the enterprise.