Sunday was a beautiful day for the Hudson River Revival Clearwater Festival which was held along the Hudson river at the Croton Point Park, Croton-on-Hudson.

We caught the end of Vance Gilbert and all of Ani DiFranco's performance. I was sad to miss most of Vance. I always love hearing his voice and performance shtick. Ani was wonderful. She played for a little under an hour and did I think 8 songs (4 from Educated Guess) and two poems, including Grand Canyon (which she closed with) and another I hadn't heard before, but found on the web. To quote:

when they said he could walk on water
what it sounds like to me is he could float like a butterfly
and sting like a bee
literal people are scary man
literal people scare me
out there trying to rid the world of it's poetry
while getting it wrong fundamentally
now in the church of 'look it says right here, see?

I like that.

This marked my 4th Clearwater and Lorenzo's first. Robin started going 20 years ago. Yesterday's festival was beautiful. Lorenzo absolutely loved it and thought it was terrible that we had to leave. It's a wonderfully fun time for kids. There's always some music I enjoy, whether it's at the Rainbow or the Dance stage. And you can't beat the gorgeous view of the Hudson as the sweet light of the sun comes in. And with all this you also get to feel good about supporting Clearwater. Hopefully we'll start going again since we have a new reason to. We took the train this time and it was quite easy.