Battle of the Jug Bands, baby!

For our sister bonding event of the year, Hobbitsister and I decided to go to the 27th annual Battle of the Jug Bands. I had grand ideas of a close atmosphere of rednecks jug banding over their potluck dinner, but this was huge. All types of people, all ages, most of whom had all their teeth - it was crazy.

It was at the Cabooze, which has a great bar atmosphere. It was kind of scary, though, how plastered people were by 3:30. I can only imagine what it was like by 8.

The whole thing was very interesting. The first group sang 'Keep on Churnin' 'til the Butter Comes' followed by 'Love Shack.' One group played 'That's All Right, Mama,' the Elvis song that was originally not an Elvis song. It was cool to hear how it may have sounded originally.

My favorite was the last group we saw, on the mere count of because all afternoon I had been watching these Hasidic Jews, thouroughly enjoying that they were even at this thing, and then they ended up being in it. :) It was kind of funny to see one take off his hat to adjust his yarmulke on stage. He also amused me with his having a jug in one hand and bottle of beer in the other.

Afterwards we decided we wanted to grab something to eat, but had no luck deciding on a place (mostly because we couldn't think of a good malt shop), but then drove by the Heights Movie Theater (which everyone should go to sometime because it has so much character, complete with an organ for when they show silent movies), and noticed that "Slumdog Millionaire" was playing, so we spur of the moment decided to see that instead. It was really good. I highly recommend it. (Hobbitsister has a review on her blog.)

So that was our sister bonding time. Great fun. :)