music festivals/live music

[mruffruff]

Every Saturday night from 7 to 10 the city of Columbia provides a free, live concert in the big park downtown. They hire local bands of different styles for each week between Memorial Day and Labor Day. There are several food and drink vendors set up on the perimeter. I've always enjoyed the park. It has a huge waterfall and meandering "river" that flows into a large pond.

We take a picnic and some folding chairs for a free night of live entertainment.

[Killearn Kitties]

I'll see lots of live music this summer - been to 4 events in the last week alone - but none of it will be outside. The weather tends to be too unpredictable to make an outdoor event an attractive prospect. Fabulous when the weather is good, of course, but ....