Summer concerts

[desh]

Saturday June 6: Eileen Ivers @ Longwood Gardens
Saturday June 6: The Decemberists @ Tower Theatre
Thursday June 11: Eddie Vedder @ Tower Theatre
Saturday July 11: Reel Big Fish @ Starlight Ballroom (or just see them in New York on the 9th, and take the 10th off since I'm probably going to New York on the 10th anyway...)
Friday July 17: Reel Big Fish @ Croc Rock, Allentown
Sunday July 19: Trout Fishing In America @ Upper Merion Township Building
Saturday July 25: XPoNential Music Fest @ Camden, NJ (A 4.5 mile walk not in an eruv? Doable...but still, probably not.)
Wednesday July 29: The Dukhs @ Haddon Lake Park, Camden County (Really, Dukhs? Tisha b'Av?)
Thursday July 30: Xavier Rudd @ TLA
Thursday August 13 through Sunday August 16: Philadelphia Folk Festival @ Old Pool Farm, Schwenksville, PA
Saturday August 22: Shemekia Copeland @ Longwood Gardens
Saturday August 29: John Flynn @ Tin Angel

Wow, a lot of bad timing this season. (Including this Saturday, when I'd usually be upset that I have to choose between 2 of my 3 or 4 favorite acts, but instead I'm just upset that I might be too tired to go to either.) But there are still a couple of shows I'll probably go to. Who's in?

Comments

[desh]

Awesome!

So it's not quite free. It's $40 for full admission if you volunteer (volunteer fees plus mandatory Folksong Society membership), as opposed to $145-$180 if you don't. You sign up for a volunteer committee and work about 16 total hours over about 4 total shifts, usually at random times over which you don't have tons of control (though between Thursday and Sunday), and you have the rest of the time free. They also give you 2 meals a day for free if you volunteer, though if your dietary rules are what I think they are, that's mostly irrelevant for you. You'd probably have to bring food.

Shabbat used to be easy, but after a very painful restructuring of my volunteer committee 2 years ago (I still get upset thinking about it), it's now a bit harder. (My old committee had most of its work between the Monday before and the Friday of Fest, so it was easy to just do shifts beforehand.) I can look into getting you onto my new committee (food prep for the aforementioned 2 free volunteer meals) and figuring out Shabbat with them, but first I want to assure my own place on the committee first...

Happy to talk about Fest in general too. Let me know!

[arctic-alpine.livejournal.com]

what are the different volunteering options, other than food prep?

[desh]

So there are 20-30 committees total. The big ones, and therefore the easy ones to get on, are security, parking, and camping security. Several others include CD/t-shirt sales, main gate, ticket sales, lighting/production, supplies/purchasing, communications (phone and network), and so on. But they're more or less difficult to get onto depending on how big they are, how popular they are, and who you know.

Oooh, I just thought of something. Do you have EMT/paramedic training? There's a medical committee.