The annual blues festival in Silver City, NM is now called Blues and Bikes, or Bikes and Blues, or some such combo. Motorcycle enthusiasts have always been a significant portion of the crowd, so the organizers decided to include all kinds of motorcycle activities to the event. It seems to have been a success from what we could see.
We have not been to the whole thing since we began spending summers in Skagway, but this year there was live music in the park on Friday night. In the past, Friday night music was just in bars.
Since we first attended this event in 199? or 20?? it has grown tremendously. It was the 20th annual this year and they announced that it has grown from one afternoon of music with around 300 attendees, to the current two and a half days with several thousand attendees. For us, it has been the official end of school and the beginning of summer. This year, it was just another great weekend.
The weather cooperated by being in the low 70's instead of the 90's. In fact, we had to don light jackets by 5:30 all three nights.
We waited too long to make reservations, so just like 2012, we had to bunk in Lordsberg 45 miles away. It is a pretty drive through oak and juniper deer country. (The yellow warning signs say so)
This was the second time in all the years we have driven that road that we actually saw deer. Once on Friday evening as we left for Lordsberg, and Sunday morning on our way in. And they weren't crossing the road either time. Always good.
The music was good. The crowd was infinitely watchable. We met people from Tucson, Silver City and Las Cruces who were seated in our vicinity. Coming home tonight we got a few sprinkles between San Simon and Willcox.
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