October was about simple pleasures - live music, gatherings with friends, and spending a personal milestone in Big Sur.
A couple classmates got married in Marin and we had a lot of other friends fly in for the celebration. Needless to say it was a beautiful wedding. It was great to catch up with people we don't get to see as often, and we spent a lot of time on the dance floor with the bride and groom. My friends and I also made a point to actually go to Friday happy hour, hence the Bay Bridge photo at dusk.
October in SF kicks off with the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival in Golden Gate Park. I've been going to with friends for the past four years (the photo is actually from last year, just to show the crowd), and I like it because it's a really chill music festival and makes for great people-watching.
Also this month I also went to a couple concerts at venues I'd never been to before. I finally got to check out a legendary venue, The Fillmore. I'm a little ashamed we'd lived in San Francisco this long without going there; we got there earlier and one of the bouncers encouraged us to walk around upstairs and check out all the posters of acts that had played there. The show we actually saw waas Amy Helm (see video below) and The Word (Robert Randolph, John Medeski and North Mississippi Allstars). They were fantastic live - if you get the chance to see either group, they will blow you away.
I also went to a show at The Regency Ballroom for the first time to see Nortec Collective and Bomba Estereo:
This show was basically a dance party and we were right up front. Nortec Collective had a trumpet player and a tuba player both getting the audience hyped up. And I basically have a girl crush on Liliana Saumet, the lead singer for Bomba Estereo. It was a late night (for a weeknight) but it was worth it. And it made me happy to live in San Francisco where a lot of cool acts pass through.
