The Grand Parade, and the Kid's Parade too!

the Portage Fill!

The Portage Fill-Harmonic is *the* Strawberry Festival band, having played at every Strawberry Festival that I can remember, and at some that I've probably forgotten... Still great, after all these years.

Island Jazz Quintet!

Bill Brown and the Kingbees!

not the Sound Band!

These guys, of course, are not the Sound Band. The only reason I've titled the photos that way is that I didn't catch what they called themselves, and two of them (Stefan Rubicz, keyboards, and the drummer) were in the Sound Band last year, and may now be also, for all I know. I stumbled upon these guys at the Village Green Saturday afternoon, where they apparently had just set up and started playing.

They were stunningly good. Aside from Stefan's excellent keyboarding and the skittle-band simplicity of the drumming, the guitar player (he looks familiar but I don't know his name) was astonishing in his effortless ability to seemingly riff through complex vamps without so much as an apparent misstep. I hope to hear them all play again; I have no idea when that might be. I left $5.00 in their Union Jack-draped collection box.

Saturday Festival Scenes

A little bit of everything. Around town, people, booths, kids, Ober Park, the Carnival...

the Great Divide!

The Great Divide (along with Vashimba, probably, and certainly the Portage Fill) used to define the Vashon Strawberry Festival musically. Often the Great Divide would close out the Festival on Sunday evenings when all the craftspeople (I used to be a potter, then - we're talking 25 years ago) were doing their loadouts...

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