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Monday, October 1, 2007

Excelsior Festival 2007

This post is actually about a week late. It's going to be followed by a second post about this past weekend's wedding performance. Anyway, we performed for the Excelsior Festival on Sunday, Sept. 23, 2007. It was a two lion performance for the children's stage. For those of you who don't know where the Excelsior is, it's around the Outer Mission, off of Alemany. It was a basic performance. We mixed it up a bit by pairing up Bradford with Khiem. Somehow, Doug has gained lots of muscle mass and weights more than Khiem. That is why we figured to give Bradford a little rest.

Before the actual show, we decided to try to draw a crowd by playing some music.



Fai, does it feel good to get back on that drum? You know it does...

I thought this next picture was cool because it looks like Khiem is going up to fetch something from the top of that tent-like structure. Unfortunately, he wasn't and that object was just in the way of the picture.



Looks cool anyway.

Fast forward to about the middle of the performance and the two lions are on double leg stacks right before picking up the scrolls. I can see myself on the left!







Here is Fai, preparing to shoot off a Confetti cannon. CAREFUL! Don't shoot it too early!





Scrolls come down!



Russell and Berman decide to pose in front of the drum to end the performance. Good job guys. It was very easy and quick. There were some definite music hiccups though. We'll be working on those in the next few weeks.

Hmmm, if it works, I might just post up some music, that way we can track some of our progress.

Breakfast that Day: Bashful Bull
Lunch that Day: I don't know. I had to leave right after the performance!

Another update coming in the next hour!

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