Day 3 - Farmers Market
We were in our element.
Buying farmers market apples, beet mead, coffee, alcohol soaked baked goods, antique jewelry, chatting with locals, families, kids … from the moment we stepped foot in that parking lot.
What joy. Our residents’ first hello to the Airdrie community: sharing selections from the album “the last leaf” by the Danish string quartet right here at the market, squatting on the cement and making custom buttons for each of our little friends, walking around and being in awe of the craft, creativity, passion, warmth that emanates from each stall - homemade (celiac/diabetic-friendly) desserts, all the wine and mead, the audiences who stood in front of us to listen the entire time even when sun went down and the temperature quickly dropped … we felt so alive, so welcome, so full of joy.
This was absolutely, exactly we imagined this festival to be. People, land, music. We’re out of our individual practice rooms. We come to the market together, we make real personal connections, we talk to people, we share, we exchange, we come home with huge bottles of delicious bright red fizzy beets mead, olive oil, cheesecake, friendship necklaces (cat and cow! <3), and so much laughter, so much … being in this moment, bonding over feast and friendship.
These are not just words. Not just wishful thinking, this is the community we have created, continue to create. This is still all just the beginning.
To be continued…!
Tomorrow, hear a completely different side of our phenomenal musicians - Debussy’s sensual String Quartet brought to you right on the lake.
“Music, by its very nature, is something that cannot be cast into a traditional and fixed form. The music I desire must be supple enough to adapt itself to the lyrical effusions of the soul and the fantasy of dreams.”
-Debussy
