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Thanks SO much for your thoughtfulness! I've printed this out & am securing it in my luggage, since we are driving from Boston. I love how this community takes care of each other! Hope to meet you & everyone else at the VC meet-up table....on the deck above Courtyard C, look for a big section of a purple pool-type "fun noodle" with the letters VC on it, Friday night. Soon!

Looking forward to meeting you, Curt! Hope I didn't overwhelm you with all that detailed info I sent!

Also, I have a request....I know it's late but my boy hasn't been sure of his plans until now! My son Brennan & his new bride Mariela will be needing a ride from North Adams to Boston (airport) on Monday, June 29th. If anyone on here might be able to help them out, I'd be eternally grateful! Let me know if you might have room. His flight back to CA from Boston leaves at about 2 p.m. Thanks in advance to anyone who can help! He'd be happy to pay you something for the assistance, and he & Mariela are lovely traveling companions. Otherwise he's going to have to live in North Adams from

Vince, I've been to all 3 of the previous Solid Sounds and I still haven't had enough browsing time. Allow plenty!

Thanks Diane! Looking forward to meeting all of you! Also, there will be beef jerky.

No reason it can't be the same this time around, Joe, so long as they have the Lagunitas!

I think we should get you out of that heat and into some Berkshires! Dagwave, I look forward to meeting you!

Hello all, As promised, we will be commandeering a table at SSF to use as a meet-up place. Those of you who have been to previous SSF's will have no trouble understanding the location of this table, but I'll describe it for the first-timers. As you enter the festival grounds, you will go through the Mass MoCA giftshop. You will be funneled through and will exit the giftshop by crossing a little bridge over a canal. Once you have crossed that bridge, you will be on a big deck where there are tables and chairs, and food & drink are available here. (Also ice cream; don't forget the ice c

But that week is also a joyful one, as it is the week we begin planning to attend the next Solid Sound!

We're all beginning to look like this emoticon:

I think my favorites might have been Judy & Ed's....his read "Hello, I'm a lumberjack" and hers, "Hello, I'm ok." Subversion is good, Diane. We need subversion in our lives. Oh and the meet-up table sign is nearly done. I promise it will be visible (not obnoxiously so). But easy to find.

By the way, there will be a VC meet-up table set up on the big deck that overlooks Courtyard C as you enter the Mass MoCA grounds....we plan to commandeer one of those tables, and we'll mark it somehow so you can find us. (Details will follow) Please come by so we can put faces to your names/usernames! Besides, there may be goodies, and you wouldn't want to miss out!

It's pretty close...just a pleasant walk away. I wouldn't even think it's as much as 15 minutes away, but maybe someone who has stayed at the campgrounds would be able to say more. On that map, Joe's field would be sort of opposite the lot numbered 1, in the direction of Brown St.

They were great, weren't they?

I guess the closest I've seen them would be Los Angeles, 60 miles away, and the furthest I've traveled to see them would be Paris, France, 5,620 miles. That was a terrific Paris show, and they played my request, Wishful Thinking. Good memories!

Nice to discover you are genuinely your own fan! :lolI've heard some of those pretty goddamn good songs of yours! Good stuff.

It's that mask they insist on wearing. How can you trust a masked bird?

What a shame for us & Solid Sound if Taj is out, but of course his health comes first.

Well I was basically joking but you've got to admit it would be fun. Maybe the Wilcos would lead it? Diane, excellent set of Conga Line rules!

Cedar waxwings are gorgeous! Usually travel in big, noisy flocks...did you hear its weird chirp? I love when we get a big mess of them in the walnut tree, all chittering away.

I'd like to hear your reasons for being determined to see particular acts, if you have a reason beyond, "I like them!" It might help me to decide for myself!

All excellent choices! And you're all in for the festivities-ending Conga Line, right? I'll let Tony Margherita know so he can pencil that in for the festival's conclusion. I'm pretty sure he and the rest of TMM are going to want to be included!

...since seeing Wilco and Tweedy are a given, who else are you determined not to miss at Solid Sound? Who do you consider a must-see, and why? Who do YOU think the rest of us would be crazy to miss? An obvious choice for me is Richard Thompson...so many layers of brilliance there, and somehow I've never managed to see him before. I expect to be dazzled. I've been playing the Spotify Solid Sound 2015 playlist lately and I'm really beginning to GET, down deep, what a great, fun, passionate musical party this Solid Sound is going to be! Getting truly excited. Like this: Hey, that gives

Congratulations, Neil, she's beautiful!

I'm glad you're loving that! You'll be more hooked the deeper you go!