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.