♪The Arts & Jazz Fest: A Multi Sensory Experience and Beloved Denton Mainstay♫
Those familiar with Denton, Texas and its lively melting-pot culture already know what a visit to the annual Arts & Jazz Festival entails. For the uninitiated, here's a tiny slice of a visit to one of the city's most well known yearly events from the perspective of an area native.
Arts & Jazz - A Bit of Background
The Denton Arts & Jazz Festival is a $0 admission event held during the last weekend of April each year. This seasonal favorite showcases musicians and artists from all across Denton County and beyond.
The festival features live music on seven stages, more indoor exhibition space than an Olympic swimming pool, and dozens of different food vendors in six food courts. Thanks to the festival's numerous corporate sponsors, the Denton Festival Foundation is able to produce this popular event free of charge every year, which attracts people near and far from all varieties of life.
What a day!
Arts & Jazz – A Bit of the Action
Arts & Jazz 2018 played out in its typical fashion. As usual, many of the attendees were new university students, empty-nesters, and young families. For group entertainment, this event is a cheap weekend of fun compared to the amusement park or the family science museum.
For those who enjoy observing the human in his casual outdoor environment, this place is a shimmering smorgasbord of action.
The festival starts on Friday midday and is open through the weekend (closing each night). We went on Friday evening around dusk and again Saturday afternoon. Friday night attendance was much lower than the rest of the weekend, and the weather was nice and cool compared to Saturday's abundant sunshine.
Facial expression: end of Friday night
Saturday afternoon is always jumpin' at the Arts n Jazz Fest
Obligatory fried things vendor
Oreo topped with cookie dough, battered, fried. Everything it sounds like it would be and more.
Mr. Stilt's been doin' this for over 20 years. He has achieved balance in his life.
Park People - Arts n Jazz style
Bonus Section: Saying farewell to The Cupboard
One of Denton's favorite stops for natural foods and supplements is now only a fading memory. This discovery was made on Friday night, where a small camp of homeless folks was setting up for the night under what used to be the shipping and receiving area as we were pulling in to park for the nearby festival.
Further research into the matter revealed competition from new brick and mortar stores in town, coupled with Amazon's cheap, fast delivery of vitamins and dietary supplements is what drove the good old Cupboard out of town and into the record books in March 2018.
C'est la vie
Still left wondering the what fate holds for this beauty. It'll always be there, sunny in my mind.
There are much worse places to hunker down for the night. Also much better places...
Feeling slightly eerie in the daylight. Maybe that was just me.
Cheer up. We saved you a seat for next year's Arts & Jazz Festival.
Sources:
https://dentonjazzfest.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denton_Arts_and_Jazz_Festival
http://www.thedentonite.com/food/cupboard-denton-closes
Personal experience
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Park People April 2018
Sketch Dump March 2018
What's the last festival you attended?
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Thanks for stopping by. Time for me to dance like a voxel!
^^voxel art gif by @ fabiyamada^^