Aug 17 2007
Alive at Five
She and I have decided that it is necessary for us to get out of the apartment during the week and meet some people. We’ve been pretty good about doing “social” things on the weekends, but our weekday evenings are generally taken up with the gym and dog walking. In order to do something about this situation, we ventured out to Portland’s Alive at Five concert on Monument Square. I neglected to bring my camera, so this shot taken on my cell phone will have to do:
We arrived around 6:30, after the opening band, but just as the headliner, Rebirth Brass Band, was getting going. Rebirth is billed as a New Orleans jazz funk brass band, and they were great. Two trumpets, two trombones, a sax, a tuba, and two drummers, and they were all a blast. We took some time to grab a sandwich at Louis VIII (highly recommended, by the way) and sat on their patio to listen to the music and watch the dancing. After we were done, we got up and joined in the fun.
The concert was a very mellow scene. There was lots of dancing, though nothing too crazy, more than a few dogs, and lots of people over at the Sam Adams beer tent. We didn’t arrive in time to get wrist bands for the beer tent, but we had a great time without any help from Mr. Koch. Unfortunately, this was the last Alive at Five concert of the season, so we’ll have to wait until 2008 to hang out in Monument Square and enjoy some outdoor live music with our fellow Portlanders.