LadyBug Music Festival Milford, Delaware

We volunteered at the Ladybug Music Festival in Milford last Saturday.  We helped set up and break down and handle merchandise and provide information.  It was phenomenal - the entire event!  We loved the whole idea of a music festival celebrating and highlighting women musicians.  And our volunteer experience couldn't have been better.  The other volunteers were great, the public was great, the weather was great, and the music was awesome.  

I put the two posters from the festival on my "wall" which some would call a "Vision Board" or a more boring sounding bulletin board. My husband and I made the board out of insulation sheets and initially I intended it as a spot to hang my fiber arts projects as I was creating them.  The two chairs are on wheels so they are easy to move away.  But then I had old sheets of a tye-dye pattern that were just too fun to pass up for that spot in my studio.  There is just so much color and playfulness in my studio that the board just begged to have more.  So I put some of where I'm going with my creative projects, and some of what I've done (like volunteering at the Ladybug Music Festival) when the energy is so awesome that it feeds me going forward.  Other things on my board with the Ladybug posters is a flyer from Tiny Beautiful Things, a small play done at Camp Rehobeth, based on Cheryl Strayed's book, Tiny Beautiful Things.  White wings are also on the board and those I wore for my costume of Cupid at the Cupid's Undie Run around Valentine's Day in Washington, DC in 2013.  I think that was the year.  My daughter wanted to do it and a gentleman I worked with was forming a team so we could fund raise.  The proceeds in part went to benefit research for a rare children's disease that his daughter had.  The Undie Run is really just a heavy drinking event where mostly youngish "runners" show up in underwear, skimpy swimwear or costumes, also mostly skimpy.  I wasn't going to go skimpy at my age so I came up with a costume of flesh colored and heavily spandexed body suit, the white wings, and I put a white kitchen dish towel around my bum wrapped like a diaper.  It went over really well.  We ran the, get this, one mile, if that, in the snow, while runners were sometimes walking on their hands and many were dropping to do pushups.  I was in the latter category.  I was so sore the next morning.  OK so I digressed.  No surpise. 

This was one of the first bands to play on the main stage but for the life of me 
I don't remember which one.  They were good though.  It's just that 
I was distracted with my volunteer duties.

The key performance was Eljuri out of NYC.  Cecilia Villar Eljuri is from Guayaquil, Ecuador but grew up in NYC.  She's a bilingual singer/songwriter, plays a really good guitar.  Her genre is alternative pop/rock and Latin but I'd suspect we should not pigeon-hole her.  I believe she is creative and open and will keep surprising fans with innovative, exciting and lush sounds and thoughts.