Our newest adventure found us traveling two days south of Coarsegold to Havasu Lake, CA for the 2nd annual Lakeshore Bluegrass Festival. We caravaned together with Pat Bennett who was taking her longest solo trip to date in her new rig.
Havasu Lake, CA is directly across Lake Havasu from it's much larger sister city, Lake Havasu City, Arizona. This place was relatively remote for an Indian casino (Havasu Landing Casino). It was almost 20 miles east of Highway 95 (the only way in or out)...however, they did run a ferry across the lake to Lake Havasu City...docking almost right under the London Bridge.
Anyway, the reason that we found this festival was that our favorite bluegrass band, Dry Branch Fire Squad, was going to be the headline band. We found the information on the band's website. The first day of the festival was very windy, as you can tell from one of the lake view pictures attached here. Dry Branch Fire Squad played four sets...two on Friday and two on Saturday and they did not disappoint. Because of the wind, they did seem a bit worried that the stage was going to come down on them but luckily it didn't. Overall, the music was very good. Besides Dry Branch Fire Squad, two of our other favorites were the Bost Family Traditions and Fiddlemania.
Our campsite was up on a bluff, about 150 yards from the lake shore. This gave us a great view of the fireworks that were shot off every night on the other side of the lake.
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Sure wish we could have joined you, but thanks for the pictures. I can hear Ron now, as I type this, I've been listening to them on my iPod all weekend! What a blast I'm sure you guys are having.
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