Music and 3-D

Nick and I spent several hours on Thursday and Friday walking through the hotel/resort and marveling at the flowers and the decor. It is truly a unique place.









Friday's activities at the conference were enlightening. As "first timers" at this conference, we're kinda' figuring it out as we go along. As mentioned before, the purpose of this gathering is to preview acts for the "community concert" 08-09 season. Each act comes with a price either predicated on the number of performers or their "desirability". Brownwood's funding at this point is solely based on memberships and on grants from businesses and individuals, so we can't afford to have the 5 most expensive acts come to our town. We must recommend the best we can that can be paid for with what we have after we rent our facility (a new expense this year because the college auditorium is being renovated- it needs it, but that doesn't help our budget)
Anyway, we experienced pianists, country/bluegrass groups, gymnast/comedy group, Mediterranean music, a marimba artist and a Christmas show. That is one half of what we will see this weekend and of course, some of the groups could not be here for this preview. At the end of seeing all these talented folks, we-the group of 7- will take recommendations back to the entire board to decide on the artists for the 08-09 season (a daunting task)

After the afternoon's session was over Nick and I walked to the Mall (again) this time to do supper and go to the I-MAX theatre presentation of Harry Potter #5 WITH 30 MINUTES OF 3-D.
The first 3-D movie I remember, back before dirt, was Vincent Price in the House of Wax. OOOOhhhhh, it was cool. I'm sure I've experienced other versions, but they weren't very memorable.

THIS WAS! Voledmort almost in my lap, Harry and Dumbeldore's Army breaking thousands of prophecies in the Ministry. Glass was flying. Really well done and effective. Altho we had seen the "2-D" version of this movie, this one was BIG and in our face. A fun evening.