There Was Music

 Last night we attended the first show of the Ruby Summer Concert Series at the waterfront park.  These are free concerts every Friday night during the summer at Ruby Amphitheater.

The warmup act for the show was a band called The Cooley Gang. I ripped this blurb from their web site:

(Their music) spans many classic genres including: bluegrass, old time, rock & roll, gypsy jazz, folk, jam band, and cowboy songs.

They were a tight band and surprisingly good.  Here's a shot of them:

I had to post this picture of a dog that I saw at the concert.

It apparently had sensitive hearing or just disliked loud noise.  These ear protectors just be specially made for pooches because there are big paw print logos on either side.   There were moment when I wished that I had something like that.  We were sitting in the fourth row from the stage, and my Apple watch had warned me several times about high decibel levels.

The featured band was called the Leftover Salmon.  They are a classified as a jam band and their music was somewhat reminiscent of the Greatful Dead.  They were good!  I'll have to look into some of their music on YouTube.  If you want to learn more about them, click on the Leftover Salmon link at the top of this paragraph.  It will direct you to their Wikipedia entry.

Here's a shot I took as we were leaving.

 

Next time we go to one of these concert, We're going to sit much further back,  so that we will get an unobstructed view of the band, whereas from the fourth row we had to contend with people dancing and standing in front of the stage.