We city-o's who left the Big Apple to make Ithaca home will sometimes refer to town as the sixth borough.
The Southside neighborhood, where I live, is the main stem.
The feeling's there today at the annual Juneteenth event, celebrating African-American history and culture, at the Southside Community Center on South Plain Street.
It's a beautiful day, so come visit. Try the Ethiopian food, or Roy's Cuban fare, or the excellent fresh-juice drinks. There's music, and a great, friendly crowd to welcome you.
Steve Burke
for Ithaca NY Blog
Saturday, June 23, 2012
Friday, June 22, 2012
MLK Sculpture on the Commons
The new Martin Luther King sculpture was unveiled on the Commons today, and suddenly it seems like a weightier place.
See it at the Cayuga Street entrance to the Commons.
Steve Burke
for Ithaca NY Blog
See it at the Cayuga Street entrance to the Commons.
Steve Burke
for Ithaca NY Blog
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Taste of The Nation Sets Record
Last night's Taste of the Nation event was the largest in its history in Ithaca, raising a record $54,500.
Underwriting by the Sysco Company, the Strebel Planning Group, and others allows the full money raised to go to the event's beneficiaries, local groups working against hunger among children.
Ithaca is the smallest city in the country to hold an annual Taste of the Nation event. Not surprising, given the giving nature of this town.
Over 50 restaurants, wineries, and breweries provided food and drink.
Southeast Asian seems to be the hot cuisine of the moment among local chefs. GreenStar Co-op (first-time participant in the event) and Hazlenut Cafe, of Trumansburg, were among many offering stellar stuff in this style.
The wineries were too numerously good to pick a best. For presentation and fervor, however, we will mention Ravines Wine Cellars of Hammondsport. H'port is one of the local towns we always mean to visit. Now we have an extra reason.
Steve Burke
for Ithaca NY Blog
Underwriting by the Sysco Company, the Strebel Planning Group, and others allows the full money raised to go to the event's beneficiaries, local groups working against hunger among children.
Ithaca is the smallest city in the country to hold an annual Taste of the Nation event. Not surprising, given the giving nature of this town.
Over 50 restaurants, wineries, and breweries provided food and drink.
Southeast Asian seems to be the hot cuisine of the moment among local chefs. GreenStar Co-op (first-time participant in the event) and Hazlenut Cafe, of Trumansburg, were among many offering stellar stuff in this style.
The wineries were too numerously good to pick a best. For presentation and fervor, however, we will mention Ravines Wine Cellars of Hammondsport. H'port is one of the local towns we always mean to visit. Now we have an extra reason.
Steve Burke
for Ithaca NY Blog
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
GrassRoots Schedule Up
The schedule for the 2012 GrassRoots Festival is posted today.
Among the highlights are George Jones at 8 p.m. Thursday, and Rebirth Brass Band at 9:30 p.m. Friday.
The schedule and other info are available at http://www.grassrootsfest.org/.
Steve Burke
for Ithaca NY Blog
Among the highlights are George Jones at 8 p.m. Thursday, and Rebirth Brass Band at 9:30 p.m. Friday.
The schedule and other info are available at http://www.grassrootsfest.org/.
Steve Burke
for Ithaca NY Blog
Saturday, June 16, 2012
The State of Love
I thought of that old Woody Allen movie the other day, where he divides life into two categories, the Miserable and the Horrible. Those are the conditions he sees.
I thought of it because I was discussing with a friend the state of relationships. I have been single a long time. She has been busy with a string of relationships, but not happy.
We talked of a lot of things, but what it comes down to, I said, is the choice of being alone, and possibly lonely, or involved, and generally annoyed.
This annoyed her, which seemed to prove my point. And we're just friends.
"That's what you need," she said. "A t-shirt that says, 'I'd Rather Be Lonely Than Annoyed'."
"Yeah, except I'm not lonely," I said.
My personal option seems best to me, because the involved people, who are annoyed, can also be lonely. The double whammy. But you can't be alone and annoyed - annoyed at someone who doesn't exist? That's not metaphysically possible.
Of course, I suppose there is the state of possibly being happy.
As Damon Runyon says, though, anything in life is 6 to 5 against - and a proposition like happiness, in a relationship, much heavier, no doubt.
Steve Burke
for Ithaca NY Blog
I thought of it because I was discussing with a friend the state of relationships. I have been single a long time. She has been busy with a string of relationships, but not happy.
We talked of a lot of things, but what it comes down to, I said, is the choice of being alone, and possibly lonely, or involved, and generally annoyed.
This annoyed her, which seemed to prove my point. And we're just friends.
"That's what you need," she said. "A t-shirt that says, 'I'd Rather Be Lonely Than Annoyed'."
"Yeah, except I'm not lonely," I said.
My personal option seems best to me, because the involved people, who are annoyed, can also be lonely. The double whammy. But you can't be alone and annoyed - annoyed at someone who doesn't exist? That's not metaphysically possible.
Of course, I suppose there is the state of possibly being happy.
As Damon Runyon says, though, anything in life is 6 to 5 against - and a proposition like happiness, in a relationship, much heavier, no doubt.
Steve Burke
for Ithaca NY Blog
Friday, June 15, 2012
Days Ahead For Doing Good & Having Fun
This is a big weekend for peace and fun in our community with the 3rd annual Peter De Mott Trot on Sunday, and events surrounding it.
Then on Tuesday, there is the Taste of the Nation event, with restaurateurs and other food professionals hosting a gala event for fighting hunger.
The De Mott Trot is preceded by a concert tonight at the Finger Lakes Wine Center, an interesting place to congregate. Double E, the Evil City String Band, and the Grady Girls perform. We imagine wine is available.
Peace activities continue on Saturday with an afternoon rally by the Ithaca Catholic Worker and others at the corner of Clinton and Meadow Streets.
And on Sunday, the crowd will be having a picnic at North Point at Taughannock Park, a beautiful spot, if you've never been. And a convivial group.
Steve Burke
for Ithaca NY Blog
Then on Tuesday, there is the Taste of the Nation event, with restaurateurs and other food professionals hosting a gala event for fighting hunger.
The De Mott Trot is preceded by a concert tonight at the Finger Lakes Wine Center, an interesting place to congregate. Double E, the Evil City String Band, and the Grady Girls perform. We imagine wine is available.
Peace activities continue on Saturday with an afternoon rally by the Ithaca Catholic Worker and others at the corner of Clinton and Meadow Streets.
And on Sunday, the crowd will be having a picnic at North Point at Taughannock Park, a beautiful spot, if you've never been. And a convivial group.
Steve Burke
for Ithaca NY Blog
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Demonstration At City Hall For Pyramid Studios, Wed. 13 June
Amy Puryear of the Double E band (and the music scene in general) just stopped in here to Angry Mom Records/Small World Music to tell us there's a demonstration going on tomorrow out our back door, at City Hall, to protest the destruction of historic Pyramid Studios on Clinton Street.
It's a musical demonstration. Amy's band will be there, and Sim Redmond's, and Richie Stearns, plus as many musicians as can make it. The music community cares about Pyramid, and its owner, Alex Perialis.
And everybody should care about this situation, which comprises issues of communication, and lack of transparency, or what you might call sneakiness and lying, more plainly.
The mayor needs to know that public opinion counts. Please come out and be part of the effort.
Steve Burke
for Ithaca NY Blog
It's a musical demonstration. Amy's band will be there, and Sim Redmond's, and Richie Stearns, plus as many musicians as can make it. The music community cares about Pyramid, and its owner, Alex Perialis.
And everybody should care about this situation, which comprises issues of communication, and lack of transparency, or what you might call sneakiness and lying, more plainly.
The mayor needs to know that public opinion counts. Please come out and be part of the effort.
Steve Burke
for Ithaca NY Blog
Saturday, June 09, 2012
Third Annual Peter De Mott Peace Trot, Sun. 17 June
The third annual Peter De Mott Peace Trot takes place on Father's Day, Sunday 17 June, 10 a.m., at Cornell Plantations.
The three-kilometer run (or trot, or walk) is in memory and celebration of Pete De Mott, a friend to many in Ithaca, an activist for peace, a great family man, and an avid runner.
Pete served in the U.S. Army and in the Marines in the 1960's. His experiences in Viet Nam lead him to oppose war. Pete was among the most prominent anti-war activists in the world, committed in action and eloquent in words.
The Trot was created by his family and friends to honor and benefit Pete's work.
Details are available on the Trot's Facebook page, where you can register, or volunteer.
There will also be a benefit concert this year, on Friday the 15th, at 7 p.m. at the Finger Lakes Wine Center on South Cayuga Street, across from the Holiday Inn.
The concert features country rock from Double E, old-timey music from the Evil City String Band, and Irish music from the Grady Girls, comprising nieces and daughters of Pete and his wife, Ellen Grady.
Steve Burke
for Ithaca NY Blog
The three-kilometer run (or trot, or walk) is in memory and celebration of Pete De Mott, a friend to many in Ithaca, an activist for peace, a great family man, and an avid runner.
Pete served in the U.S. Army and in the Marines in the 1960's. His experiences in Viet Nam lead him to oppose war. Pete was among the most prominent anti-war activists in the world, committed in action and eloquent in words.
The Trot was created by his family and friends to honor and benefit Pete's work.
Details are available on the Trot's Facebook page, where you can register, or volunteer.
There will also be a benefit concert this year, on Friday the 15th, at 7 p.m. at the Finger Lakes Wine Center on South Cayuga Street, across from the Holiday Inn.
The concert features country rock from Double E, old-timey music from the Evil City String Band, and Irish music from the Grady Girls, comprising nieces and daughters of Pete and his wife, Ellen Grady.
Steve Burke
for Ithaca NY Blog
Thursday, June 07, 2012
Fred Eaglesmith at the Haunt, Thurs. 7 June
Fred Eaglesmith is a musician with a good career - dozens of albums, thousands of shows - and an exceeding popularity in Ithaca. He comes to Ithaca annually, it seems. He plays tonight at the Haunt.
Eaglesmith is like a rural Steve Earle, or a Canadian Tom Waits, although we don't know if he is Canadian.
Tonight's show is at 9 p.m.
Steve Burke
for Ithaca NY Blog
Eaglesmith is like a rural Steve Earle, or a Canadian Tom Waits, although we don't know if he is Canadian.
Tonight's show is at 9 p.m.
Steve Burke
for Ithaca NY Blog
Tuesday, June 05, 2012
Space Is The Place: Sun Ra and the Sounds of Venus
It would be great if everyone who is interested at looking at Venus skipping across the sun today also gave a listen to "Rocket Number Nine Take Off To The Planet Venus."
It is a great piece of music from the Sun Ra Arkestra that presents as clearly as possible the spirit of a rocket christened Number Nine taking off to the planet Venus to considerable enthusiasm, if for no particular purpose or reason.
Sun Ra was a great jazz musician and bandleader who gave his birthplace as Saturn, and lived in Philadelphia. His band of at least a dozen musicians played a lot of gigs in New York City and got there by Amtrak, all aboard with instruments and costumes.
Sun Ra looked at the world (and the cosmos) in a great way.
Steve Burke
for Ithaca NY Blog
It is a great piece of music from the Sun Ra Arkestra that presents as clearly as possible the spirit of a rocket christened Number Nine taking off to the planet Venus to considerable enthusiasm, if for no particular purpose or reason.
Sun Ra was a great jazz musician and bandleader who gave his birthplace as Saturn, and lived in Philadelphia. His band of at least a dozen musicians played a lot of gigs in New York City and got there by Amtrak, all aboard with instruments and costumes.
Sun Ra looked at the world (and the cosmos) in a great way.
Steve Burke
for Ithaca NY Blog
Sunday, June 03, 2012
One-Dollar Volvo, at Ithaca Festival
A 1997 Volvo can be yours tonight for one dollar.
Ithaca Foreign Car Service donates a car each year for a raffle for the Ithaca Festival.
Tickets are one dollar, or 10 for $5.
I'll be among the crew hawking tickets in front of the car at Cayuga and State Streets.
All it takes is a dollar and a dream, the NY Lottery says. We say that actually all it takes is a dollar.
Come by and say hi and buy a ticket. You could be walking around lucky today and not even know it.
Steve Burke
for Ithaca NY Blog
Ithaca Foreign Car Service donates a car each year for a raffle for the Ithaca Festival.
Tickets are one dollar, or 10 for $5.
I'll be among the crew hawking tickets in front of the car at Cayuga and State Streets.
All it takes is a dollar and a dream, the NY Lottery says. We say that actually all it takes is a dollar.
Come by and say hi and buy a ticket. You could be walking around lucky today and not even know it.
Steve Burke
for Ithaca NY Blog
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Cool, At Angry Mom Records/Small World Music
It is cool here at Angry Mom Records, in every way of the vernacular, slang, and real.
I work here on Tuesdays.
It's a hundred degrees outside and in here it's about 68. The building (Autumn Leaves Books) is air conditioned, plus we're in the basement. The differences are notable.
It's also cool because, you know, we're here. We became a partner in the place when it opened, and we closed our store, Small World Music, to merge here. Tuesdays we are here alone all day.
So stop in to see us. Talk about the Binghamton Mets (see previous post). Or music.
What's new around here lately? Alabama Shakes, Beach House, Lindsay Buckingham, Carolina Chocolate Drops, Dr. John (produced by Dan Auerbach of Black Keys), Fistful of Mercy, Norah Jones, Bonnie Raitt, Stone Canyon Rangers, and Hank Williams III.
Right now we're playing Freddie Hubbard. It's cool.
We're open til 8 p.m. on Tuesdays.
Steve Burke
for Ithaca NY Blog
I work here on Tuesdays.
It's a hundred degrees outside and in here it's about 68. The building (Autumn Leaves Books) is air conditioned, plus we're in the basement. The differences are notable.
It's also cool because, you know, we're here. We became a partner in the place when it opened, and we closed our store, Small World Music, to merge here. Tuesdays we are here alone all day.
So stop in to see us. Talk about the Binghamton Mets (see previous post). Or music.
What's new around here lately? Alabama Shakes, Beach House, Lindsay Buckingham, Carolina Chocolate Drops, Dr. John (produced by Dan Auerbach of Black Keys), Fistful of Mercy, Norah Jones, Bonnie Raitt, Stone Canyon Rangers, and Hank Williams III.
Right now we're playing Freddie Hubbard. It's cool.
We're open til 8 p.m. on Tuesdays.
Steve Burke
for Ithaca NY Blog
Sunday, May 27, 2012
Bob Dylan's Scheme
Nicholas Hill, on the Nonesuch radio program on WVBR this morning, played a bunch of Bob Dylan - like, 3 hours of it - because, he said, it was Bob Dylan's birthday this week, and because "Bob Dylan is alive."
We like that. Tributes to the dead are necessary, but to the living are lovely.
Nicholas played some other artists covering Dylan material, and we realized nobody does his stuff as well as Bob Dylan himself. It's because Bob Dylan tries hard, in the right way.
Technically he is not so good, and he doesn't worry about that. All his performances are heartfelt, though, and indicate thinking.
He's not trying to make it good. He's trying to get it right.
Thanks to Bob Dylan for all his living, and to Nicholas Hill for nice hours of accolade.
Steve Burke
for Ithaca NY Blog
We like that. Tributes to the dead are necessary, but to the living are lovely.
Nicholas played some other artists covering Dylan material, and we realized nobody does his stuff as well as Bob Dylan himself. It's because Bob Dylan tries hard, in the right way.
Technically he is not so good, and he doesn't worry about that. All his performances are heartfelt, though, and indicate thinking.
He's not trying to make it good. He's trying to get it right.
Thanks to Bob Dylan for all his living, and to Nicholas Hill for nice hours of accolade.
Steve Burke
for Ithaca NY Blog
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
The Coming College Crash
A generation ago, when the U.S. had money for things other than wars, college education opened to the middle class in a way it never had before, with plentiful need-based financial aid, and need-blind admissions.
Today, aid comes in the form of big loans for exorbitant tuition, and college loan debt has surpassed credit card debt in the U.S.
Colleges have big marketing budgets to keep the middle class desperate for marquee education for their children, no matter the cost.
A bad job market doesn't hurt. In fact, it helps. With no jobs, colleges are flooded with enrollment. There's nowhere else to go.
For the big-name schools, it's a double blessing. With so many college degrees out there, people perceive extra value in the most prestigious diplomas. The big schools have big marketing budgets to keep that frenzy foaming.
The crash figures to be a long process. Schools can stay full a long time. For every smart middle class kid priced out of Cornell, for example, there's a rich dumb one to take the spot.
It will be more an erosion than a crash, as once-prestigious schools, always playpens for he rich in part, become exclusively so.
Unless we work against it. The Occupy movement is addressing the issues of rampant tuitions and crushing debt.
The Obama administration seems to be listening. The president recently spoke of granting federal aid to schools bsaed on their basis of each school's efforts to stay (or become) affordable.
We hope it is not too little, though for current students it's too late; and that the crash, if not forestalled, can at least be fixed, with effort and time.
Steve Burke
for Ithaca NY Blog
Today, aid comes in the form of big loans for exorbitant tuition, and college loan debt has surpassed credit card debt in the U.S.
Colleges have big marketing budgets to keep the middle class desperate for marquee education for their children, no matter the cost.
A bad job market doesn't hurt. In fact, it helps. With no jobs, colleges are flooded with enrollment. There's nowhere else to go.
For the big-name schools, it's a double blessing. With so many college degrees out there, people perceive extra value in the most prestigious diplomas. The big schools have big marketing budgets to keep that frenzy foaming.
The crash figures to be a long process. Schools can stay full a long time. For every smart middle class kid priced out of Cornell, for example, there's a rich dumb one to take the spot.
It will be more an erosion than a crash, as once-prestigious schools, always playpens for he rich in part, become exclusively so.
Unless we work against it. The Occupy movement is addressing the issues of rampant tuitions and crushing debt.
The Obama administration seems to be listening. The president recently spoke of granting federal aid to schools bsaed on their basis of each school's efforts to stay (or become) affordable.
We hope it is not too little, though for current students it's too late; and that the crash, if not forestalled, can at least be fixed, with effort and time.
Steve Burke
for Ithaca NY Blog
Sunday, May 20, 2012
"The Big Splash": Anti-Fracking Concert, Sun. 3 June
The beat continues against chemical drilling for gas in our area.
"The Big Splash" is a benefit concert scheduled for Sunday 3 June in Recreation Park in Binghamton.
Performers include Sim Redmond Band, Evil City String Band with Richie Stearns, Thousands of One, Yolk, and the Burns Sisters.
The concert is preceded, on Saturday, by symposia on legal and environmental issues surrounding fracking, as the chemical drilling is called.
More information is available at http://www.shaleshock.org/ and http://www.fingerlakescleanwaters.org./
Steve Burke
for Ithaca NY Blog
"The Big Splash" is a benefit concert scheduled for Sunday 3 June in Recreation Park in Binghamton.
Performers include Sim Redmond Band, Evil City String Band with Richie Stearns, Thousands of One, Yolk, and the Burns Sisters.
The concert is preceded, on Saturday, by symposia on legal and environmental issues surrounding fracking, as the chemical drilling is called.
More information is available at http://www.shaleshock.org/ and http://www.fingerlakescleanwaters.org./
Steve Burke
for Ithaca NY Blog
Thursday, May 17, 2012
Ethiopian Food In Ithaca
A surprise to us, when we moved to Ithaca from DC years ago, was the absence of Ethiopian restaurants.
In DC, they are common. What do you want tonight, Chinese, Thai, Ethiopian? Casual, inexpensive places.
Now, it seems, the void has been filled, at least a little, with the presence of an Ethiopian food vendor at the Congo Square Market.
The Market is a neighborhood enterprise at the Southside Community Center on Plain Street, held every Friday.
The Market starts at 4 p.m. The Ethiopian food goes fast, we hear, so get there early. Then let us know how it is. We work Friday afternoon - evening. We might have to take a personal day soon.
Steve Burke
for Ithaca NY Blog
In DC, they are common. What do you want tonight, Chinese, Thai, Ethiopian? Casual, inexpensive places.
Now, it seems, the void has been filled, at least a little, with the presence of an Ethiopian food vendor at the Congo Square Market.
The Market is a neighborhood enterprise at the Southside Community Center on Plain Street, held every Friday.
The Market starts at 4 p.m. The Ethiopian food goes fast, we hear, so get there early. Then let us know how it is. We work Friday afternoon - evening. We might have to take a personal day soon.
Steve Burke
for Ithaca NY Blog
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
George Jones At GrassRoots Fest
The GrassRoots Festival has announced that country music legend George Jones will appear at the festival in July.
The festival schedule has not been released, so the day of his appearance is not yet public.
Four-day tickets are available for $95 at http://www.grassrootsfest.org/
Daily passes are not sold in advance, but at the gate.
Steve Burke
for Ithaca NY Blog
The festival schedule has not been released, so the day of his appearance is not yet public.
Four-day tickets are available for $95 at http://www.grassrootsfest.org/
Daily passes are not sold in advance, but at the gate.
Steve Burke
for Ithaca NY Blog
Tuesday, May 08, 2012
Big Bash To Beat Fracking, Albany, May 15
New Yorkers against fracking will convene in concert and in rally a week from today, in Albany.
The rally is at 4:30 on the West Capitol Lawn.
The concert is at 7:00 at The Egg performance center. It features Natalie Merchant, the Horse Flies, Citizen Cope, Medeski Martin & Wood, Dan Zanes, John Sebastian, Joan Osborne, Toshi Reagon, the Felice Brothers, and others.
Ticket prices start at $40 and go to $150. More information is available at http://www.theegg.org/.
Steve Burke
for Ithaca NY Blog
The rally is at 4:30 on the West Capitol Lawn.
The concert is at 7:00 at The Egg performance center. It features Natalie Merchant, the Horse Flies, Citizen Cope, Medeski Martin & Wood, Dan Zanes, John Sebastian, Joan Osborne, Toshi Reagon, the Felice Brothers, and others.
Ticket prices start at $40 and go to $150. More information is available at http://www.theegg.org/.
Steve Burke
for Ithaca NY Blog
Saturday, May 05, 2012
Beastie Boy
Much as we hate to write about dead people, as they become so prevalent as we age, we got to say something today about Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys.
We loved the Beastie Boys the moment we heard them, in 1986. We weren't supposed to. Our friends didn't. We played their CD at work and were made to take it off. It was stupid and vulgar.
That's what our white, college-people friends thought. We are white, too, and also went to college, so no offense. But we lived in DC at the time, and worked also with young African-American guys, and they considered the Beastie Boys funny and real.
Adam Yauch was maybe the most gifted one. He was smart in a way that my black friends saw, and white friends didn't. Years later maybe they did, when Mr. Yauch did exemplary work on behalf of the oppressed population of Tibet.
I admired him mightily for that, too. But I also liked the beats, the voice, the jokes.
And I liked him because he was a city-o. Brooklyn. Edward R. Murrow High School. A few years younger than me.
A few years younger than me. Dead of cancer of the salivary gland. Of the salivary gland?
The lesson is, I guess, take care of yourself, and enjoy life while you can. Do good work and be creative, even to the point (especially to the point?) of being different, or even outrageous. Don't be afraid.
And: as per my old white DC friends: fuck 'em if they can't take a joke. Farewell, Adam Yauch.
Steve Burke
for Ithaca NY Blog
We loved the Beastie Boys the moment we heard them, in 1986. We weren't supposed to. Our friends didn't. We played their CD at work and were made to take it off. It was stupid and vulgar.
That's what our white, college-people friends thought. We are white, too, and also went to college, so no offense. But we lived in DC at the time, and worked also with young African-American guys, and they considered the Beastie Boys funny and real.
Adam Yauch was maybe the most gifted one. He was smart in a way that my black friends saw, and white friends didn't. Years later maybe they did, when Mr. Yauch did exemplary work on behalf of the oppressed population of Tibet.
I admired him mightily for that, too. But I also liked the beats, the voice, the jokes.
And I liked him because he was a city-o. Brooklyn. Edward R. Murrow High School. A few years younger than me.
A few years younger than me. Dead of cancer of the salivary gland. Of the salivary gland?
The lesson is, I guess, take care of yourself, and enjoy life while you can. Do good work and be creative, even to the point (especially to the point?) of being different, or even outrageous. Don't be afraid.
And: as per my old white DC friends: fuck 'em if they can't take a joke. Farewell, Adam Yauch.
Steve Burke
for Ithaca NY Blog
Monday, April 30, 2012
May 1, Last Day For Discount GrassRoots Tickets
May 1 is the last day for discount ("Early Bird") tickets for the GrassRoots Festival in July.
Early Bird tickets are $85 for the 4-day event. On May 2, the price goes to $95.
Tickets are available at Autumn Leaves Books and Ithaca Guitar Works, but transactions must be in cash.
At the GrassRoots website, you use a charge card, and rather than mailing you a ticket, as in the past, they will e-mail you a ticket to print out, and scan at the gate.
The site is http://www.grassrootsfest.org/.
Steve Burke
for Ithaca NY Blog
Early Bird tickets are $85 for the 4-day event. On May 2, the price goes to $95.
Tickets are available at Autumn Leaves Books and Ithaca Guitar Works, but transactions must be in cash.
At the GrassRoots website, you use a charge card, and rather than mailing you a ticket, as in the past, they will e-mail you a ticket to print out, and scan at the gate.
The site is http://www.grassrootsfest.org/.
Steve Burke
for Ithaca NY Blog
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