CMF3 Dispatches: Music Editor’s Review pt. 1
Crossroads Music Festival
Saturday, September 8 / Sunday, September 9
The Crossroads at Grinders, the Gorilla Theater, the Brick
Review & crappy snapshots by Jason Harper
In case you’re one of the thousands of Kansas Citians who failed to support the local music scene by going to last weekend’s Crossroads Music Festival and having fun, well, you missed out.
Overall, the festival could have been much better attended, especially on Sunday. It’s depressing to dwell upon how disconnected and apathetic and unsupportive people in Kansas City are when it comes to live music that’s generated from right here in town. Put Elton John’s shiny boohiney in the Sprint Center, and folks will trample their own children to get in line for tickets. Plan a local music festival on a beautiful September weekend and people stay in their caves of darkness and ignorance.
But enough moralizing. The important thing is that the festival happened and the bands were good and the people who went had fun. I talked to heroic festival overlord Roach (aka Bill Sundahl) Sunday night, and he said much the same thing, pointing out that it took the now humongous SXSW festival about 15 years to break out of obscurity. CMF stands to grow. The believers were there this year. There was even a production company shooting a documentary.
DAY ONE: day
This man perp had more fun at the festival than you will ever know.
