Bend Summer Festival II

We returned to the Bend Summer Festival today. Hey, it's free! Today we spent more time on dance than music. We did enjoy the Andean folk music of CHAYAG. (I bought their CD. I like to get CD's directly from bands.)

Yesterday I got a Native American Flute from the Fluting from the Heart booth, and today while Connie took some dance classes I chatted with the flute maker/player. Then we joined back up and watched some dancing by local groups. I found it interesting that many of the "hip-hop" dancers wore khaki or camo pants or shorts. I guess they're going for the urban look.

We moved here a couple winters ago, one of the worst winters that Central Oregon had seen in about a dozen years. Driving around Bend, I was bemused by how many 31 Flavors and other ice cream shops there were. In a ski town? Then summer came, and I understood. It's been hot here the past week, and more humid than usual, but these dancers gave it their all. Kudos to them all...

Gotta Dance Studio dancers did tap and hip-hop...




Terpsichorean Dance Studio dancers did ballet and hip-hop. I'm guessing at the hip-hop classification, maybe it's just modern dance...









Gypsy Fire & Sister Fire did belly dancing. They were awesome, with interesting music, a routine driven by the leader's cues rather than a fixed choreography, and they all were good with the zills...


The couple below were doing The Hustle and were awesome...




For lunch I had great chicken fajitas from the Cactus Jack's booth, after watching him prepare it from scratch. He dumped a batch of fresh chicken on the griddle, which was cut into inch-size cubes. Next to that dumped a pile of onion, bell pepper and tomato chunks on the griddle. He added water to the vegetables periodically, to steam them, and occasionally stirred them. After cooking and stirring the chicken for about five minutes he added McCormick's Fajita seasoning and cooked it another eight minutes or so, until the internal temperature of the chicken read at least 165 degrees at several locations in the batch.

He put a flour tortilla on the griddle and pressed it down until heated, then piled a good portion of chicken and grilled veggies on it. mmmmmm, fajitas!


Posted by Dave    Blog Tag: Chatter