Shows:
We went to the Sellersvile Theater Thursday night, to see fiddle-cello legends Alasdair Fraser and Natalie Haas. We pre-gamed with dinner (burgers & beer) at the Washington House right next door, and also ran into Jeff & Kristen there with some friends of theirs, and then we all went over to the show.
The music was fantastic. I didn’t know too much about their genre (based on traditional Scottish dance music, which traditionally featured fiddle and cello), but the music was fun and had a lot of high-energy wildness to it, and cellist Natalie Haas was amazing to watch — the style she played had a lot of pizzicato and strumming in it, mixed so effortlessly in with her bowing you could even hardly see it happening.
Friday night we (us, Ben & Jennie, and Emmi & Kyle with Iris) went up to Schuylkill Haven to see Lorraine and Lori’s collaborative art exhibit “Mothership: Source and Satellite.”
We started the evening with a somewhat disappointing dinner at a nearby place, but the exhibit itself was amazing — Lorraine’s stuff was almost exclusively knitted or woven fiber stuff (sometimes with Lori’s paintings incorporated), while Lori’s was mostly mixed material (paper maché type stuff, collage and found objects, with a lot of clear resin). All of it was really beautiful, and it all really worked together.
Rides:
Yesterday was not one but two rides: I started the day with the season-opener for the D&L’s “Get Your Tail On The Trail” program, a ride up the towpath to Allentown, where we visited the church where the Liberty Bell was hidden during the Revolution. About 40 people went, including a big CAT contingent, and we did about 12-13 miles in total.
The second ride was a continuation of the CAT Ride Leader training: the group of trainees had been tasked with designing an approximately 2-mile ride loop from CAT, then we would take turns leading the others on our rides. (I’d led my own ride the previous week, so I was just along for the uh, ride.) We did three more rides yesterday, for a total of about 10 miles. It was really fun to see what individual people did with the assignment.
We hit Joe’s last night for dinner, where we saw Joe & Laura, Marty & Jan, and John & Donna who are leaving for Scotland today.
