return of the Cashmere Jungle Lords

Yes, again with the Cashmere Jungle Lords, live at the Strawberry Street Festival in Richmond VA, 12 May 2007.



The band shots above are stills from the video I shot that day.

The numerous front man photos below are not meant to enforce rock 'n' roll hierarchies so much as to:

A. give maximum pics to CJL fans who happen by

B. provide aid & comfort to southpaw guitarists everywhere (Dom, the guy below, is one such)

C. brighten the day of Gretsch guitar fans--right-handed, left-handed or ambidextrous

Cashmere Jungle Lords live in Richmond VA

With my trusty digital point-and-shoot, I shot the above video of the Cashmere Jungle Lords performing "Apache" last Saturday, May 12th. An old fan of the band and a college buddy of the front man, I caught their show at the Strawberry Street Festival in the Fan district of Richmond.

Forgive the hand coming into frame--that's me trying to shield the camera from drizzle. It was my first video of a live band (or pretty much anything else). So please enjoy the content if not the form.

UPDATE: for those not so inclined towards video, there are still pictures of the band here:

http://uberkayness.blogspot.com/2007/05/return-of-cashmere-jungle-lords.html

scenes from the James River, Richmond VA

While at the aforementioned National Folk Festival, I took some stray pictures of the James.

National Folk Fest in Richmond

Held 13-15 October 2006 on Brown's Island, the National Folk Festival had its second year in Richmond VA (and 68th year overall).


Above are two performers from the group AltaiKai, a bunch of fine folk who twanged and throat sang, made birdsongs and horse whinnies. Pretty my personal faves this year.



Another fave was Mythili Prakash (pictured above) and the Dance of India Ensemble.


The hands above belong to Grace Chang. And the instrument she's goin' to town on is the zheng.


Gourd instruments, gourd hats and gourd masks--the Richmond Indigenous Gourd Orchestra are homegrown and homemade. They played and had hands-on exhibits like the gourd petting zoo and gourd instruments folks could play with.













Next October will be the last of these held in R'mond. If you're in the neighborhood, check it out.

Paragon and Jest

Pics from Richmond VA. These are from the Paragon Pharmacy.



No milkshakes, sad to say, but fountain drinks and BLTs.




Another image from R'mond.