Vashon Strawberry Festival 2006 - not the Sound Band

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Vashon Strawberry Festival 2006 - not the Sound Band

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Go to The Grand Parade, and the Kid's Parade too
Go to the Portage Fill
Go to Bill Brown and the Kingbees
Go to Island Jazz Quintet
Go to Saturday: Strawberry Festival Scenes
Go to the Great Divide

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 Jesse Whitford on drums) 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 Jesse's 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.

Well. Small world. Turns out the guitar player I thought looked familiar, but who I didn't know, is Calvin Havnaer.

Small world? Yes: when my daughter Rosalie was maybe in the fourth or fifth grade, I used to take her over to Adriana and Doug Havnaer's for child care before and after school while I went off to work for King County over in town. Rosalie was friends with Helen Marie. Calvin is Helen Marie's little brother. Last time I saw Calvin, he was playing cello as I recall. The Havnaer's moved to New York; Calvin's back; also see the Sound Band returns. For more Small World, have you seen Stefan in the Two Gentlemen of Verona?