Every Wednesday evening from June through August, the Missouri Botanical Garden hosts the Whitaker Music Festival, another of St. Louis's many FREE venues. For the past 14 summers, they have opened the garden, admission-free after 5pm, and suspend their normal rules, allowing us to bring in our own food and drink, spread our blankets or set-up our chairs throughout the grounds, and listen to two hours of complimentary music.
The performances are predominantly jazz, but this year's selections include some pop, funk and even a little folk/bluegrass! Our family had not attended this event for the past couple summers and were shocked to learn how popular it has become! Erin Bode performed the first week and drew nearly 11, 000, with subsequent performances bringing in 5-7,000.
The stage and main lawn with Two Times True performing:
We sit near the walkway just outside the Children's Garden, and are amazed at the steady stream of people from 6-10pm! It never ends!
Riesa making a pretzel moustache with her snack!
Several church friends join us each week - old folks, children, even some cool college kids...
Debbie trying to steal Riesa's uber-stylish baseball ring!
5 comments:
I am glad that Riesa is smiling while I try uber-hard to get that ring! I look kind of mean and domineering!
I guess "mean and domineering" runs in the family...you should see that picture of John up close...he's glaring at me big time!
I haven't seen those rings since that night! She's probably hiding them from YOU!
Now you won't have to hide them from her on Sunday morning;) You are welcome!
Awww! It's so great to see pictures of these people!!! I'm relieved that they have been able to get on with their lives without me.
It's been hard, April, and it's taken us almost a year, but we finally figured out how to get on and have fun without you. ;-)
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