Oct
31
2009

1st Annual Mill Avenue Halloween Music Festival

PhotosSaturday, October 31, 2009 - 04:19:20 pm
(Posted Under: Tempe Music Scene Tempe Music Scene, Music Music, Live Shows)
Today we headed to Mill for the 1st Annual Mill Avenue Halloween Music Festival. It was lucky that I'd picked up a copy of AZ Weekly last night at the Evlis Before Noon show, which featured it on the cover, otherwise we wouldn't have known about it. Featured on the front were Hans Olson. Steve Larson and James Park - sweet!

We ended up getting there a little bit later than we'd originally planned, and funnily enough missed Hans Olson funnily enough. Ha, 2005 Tempe Music Festival memories all over again (though, the was more related to the arrival time of my flight to Phoenix than today's reasons were). We went over and checked things out, and found out what time Steve was playing. We decided to head over to Jack In The Box since we were hungry, needed more change for the parking meter on 7th Street, and weren't that into the artist who was playing at the time.

Eating at the Jack In The Box next to the vacant lot that was once Long Wongs was pretty cool. Another thing that you'd assume that I would hae already done on previous visits to Phoenix, but hadnd't. Looking at the vacant lot, which doesn't seem that big now that there is nothing there, it's hard to imagine that all three buildings (Wongs, Cafe Boa and that tatt palor) actuallly fitted on the lot.

Photobox ImageWe headed off a little earlier than Steve was scheduled to play, hence you could imagine our surprise hearing Joe's Goin' Fihsin' booming out around downtown Tempe as we walked down Mill to the lights. Hence the walking pace was picked up. We couldn't have possibly missed that much though, as abot 10 minutes earlier Katie had gone to put more change in the meter and Steve wasn't playing then. We caught Joe's, Colder, Jack And Ginny and Don't Be Scared. I'd expected that Steve would have been playing with Parks, however he just played a short set before Parks went on with his full band.

Photobox ImageThe James Park band was a cavicade of stars - in that Andy Jensen was on bass, and on guitar Dwight Ziegler, formally with Strange Young Things - who I thought looked familiar, but would not have made the connection had we not run into Corrine towards the end of the eset, who mentioned who he was. Pretty cool seeing the band because of the past 6 months I've been hearing out Parks through Steve's association and work with him.

It was a pretty cool little thing, and was a perfect sunny Tempe day for it, and really great to see some arts and entertainment coming back to Mill. We hope it's a sign of things to come, but if so, it's going to be a long road. It was slightly disappointing that it wasn't that well attended, although more people seemed to show up when Parks went on. Either way, it was a really cool way to spend a Saturday afternoon.


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