Well, you would think that after blogging for a year or so now that I would have all this technical stuff figured out, but alas, I do not. So I am sitting here juggling posts around to get several pictures that I took on Saturday into one decent post on what our day was like.
It was the state solo and ensemble competition at the university in our town and my son took his solo. So my mother joined us so that she could see him perform here are some pictures from that part of our day.
Hannah was Josh’s accompanist and in this picture we were all outside the room waiting Josh’s turn before the judge. I guess the children were trying to call my attention to Hannah’s knee in this picture for some reason, but I really don’t know why.
Here Josh introduces his Mozart piece.
I have no idea where this group was from. There were so many singing groups walking around with cool madrigal costumes on I just had to stop some and get a picture.
When Josh’s solo was finished we left the university and headed to the high school for the annual cultural festival.
I think that I heard yesterday that the cultural festival has been in existence for 15 years.
There are approximately 1,000 volunteers and 13 – 14, 000 people who attend. These are various things that you can expect to see at the festival: ethnic food, performers who dance in costume, crafts for sale and a children’s section where they have various performers just for the children and also crafts for the children to do.
It was especially nice for my mother and I to be able to attend together because there were several booths that were marked with Czech-Slovak/Bohemian. My great-grandfather came from Bohemia. My mother was able to purchase a Bohemian cookbook and pick up a couple of flyers of Czech events which take place in Wisconsin. My family has a couple of letters written by my her grandfather in Bohemian which she is hoping to get translated.
Dancers and more dancers
Crafts
Carding wool
Slovak lace making
Hand painted eggs
My Favorite–Polish Ceramics
Let’s see, what do I show you next?
Food? Sweet and sour chicken from Cambodian booth
At a Polish booth
At the Jewish booth
A little girl painting water colors
You can see more photos of the Cultural festival here and you can see all of my flickr photos my clicking on the flickr bar at the right of my blog or by going to this link.
