After work, I drove up north for the big, 3-day hippie convention known as The Harmony Festival at the Sonoma County Fairgrounds in Santa Rosa. Actually, the extravaganza was host to some cool world music, like from Lila Downs, Angelique Kidjo and Yungchen Lhamo, as well as Arrested Development, George Clinton and some other boheme peeps, tribal/trance DJs and didjeridoo players.
I went to check out the Eco Village, which was supposed to be the center for all the latest in earth-friendly technologies for potential Pacific Sun green story ideas. The generous PR folk gave me an all-weekend, all-access pass for it and everything, so I scoped out my pal Elan, whose medical marijuana dispensary, Harborside Health Center, had a booth in the Goddess Grove.
He gave me a tour of the immense site of hippie regalia, vendors and food--surprisingly, we had some of the best oysters ever, Elan rocked out some killer leather wear from an awesome German couple, I discovered a slew of fairly awesome lingerie, and then we bounced from backstage at the Mickey Hart Band stage (boring) over to the backstage of George Clinton and P-funk (krazy-ass tour buses!).
All in all, it was kinda fun. But I didn't wanna stay the weekend, so I passed off my pass to a cool chick and bailed.
It's not really my scene, you know.
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