(in no particular order)
1. Julian Montague's stunning festival brochure was unveiled,
2. various festival acts gave one-minute sales pitches for their shows (one of which involved some rather lovely aluminum foil headgear),
3. Annette Daniels Taylor gave us a great glimpse of her talent with a few a capella numbers and poem/stories,
4. Paul Kozlowski and one of his many collaborators stopped the show with some virtuoso guitar (up to now I'd only seen him play electronic instruments--always a treat, but this was incredible--even if he did use a stack of our brand-new brochures as a foot stool!),
5. Lonesome Tom wowed us with his "Wild One" solo tribute to rockabilly greats (sadly, this excellent act really was kinda lonesome, because most everyone was still in the front of the bar while he played the back),
6. and a bunch of us handed out flyers for our shows to each other, met each other for the first time (or the thousandth), and vowed to see each other's work.
The whole thing got me right back in that delightful frame of mind from last summer, when the festival was at its peak and it was clear that all the months of work so many people have put into this festival have been worth it.
Okay, my list is just a cursory and highly personal one. I'm leaving out many, many acts that I didn't see, and maybe someone will describe them in a comment to this post. Many thanks to all the folks who loaned their talents to the evening, and especially to Matt LaChiusa for organizing and hosting this intimate extravaganza.
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