I wandered around the Norman Music Festival on Sunday and shot some pics. NMF brings in ”alternative everything” music to stages set up on closed downtown streets. It is a huge success, drawing at least 30,000 people to see more than 100 quite talented bands and artists perform in the two-day festival.
But I’m not so sure how many of those attending really appreciated how good some of the bands were. I can’t say I was a big fan of a lot of the music, especially groups like The Sword and Dirty Projectors, but as someone who spent a long time playing in high school and college bands at least I recognize accomplished musicians from those who are panhandling with bad chords.
And, being the old trumpet player I was of course most impressed with the latin sound of Grupo Fantasma, an Austin band that will make your booty move — or you are legally dead.
I’ll post some more images from the festival tomorrow.
