Picnic Music: Good Wood

Tuesday night I attended the first Picnic-in-the-Park concert of the year. The music was by the Good Wood Trio. Actually they are a quartet now so it seems that they are now calling themselves Good Wood.

The band is mainly an instrumental band that plays bluegrass, blues, and whatever else that sounds good instrumentally. They sang on a few songs but vocals are not their strong suit. Picking is.

I arrived late to the concert as usual. There were plenty of people there, either on blankets on the lawn or in folding chairs they had brought. I don't know what it was about the crowd, but they seemed to be an odd collection of people. Maybe it is because I haven't been back in the Flathead for very long.

The day was warm as our temperatures were in the upper 70s under clear skies. Beautiful weather and it actually feels like Summer now. Surprisingly it was breezy today. This wasn't bad during the day, but after the sun set it felt cold. Still I stayed at the concert until it ended at 9 pm.

I saw this band last year. Compared to last year the audience this year was more mellow. Polite, but not enthusiastic applause. No encores requested. Maybe it was because the audience was getting cold and wanted to leave.