Folk Life

While Noa typically eschews summer music programs, they were surprisingly amenable to performing with DCYOP for the Smithsonian Folk Life Festival and even willingly went to hours long practices (some of which ran even longer) in the middle of the day at a random middle school. The day of the actual performance they were less excited, which may have been due to the heat, or the thunderstorms, or the delayed sound check that the crowd thought was the actual performance with a fastidious conductor that kept cutting off the orchestra mid-piece.

Nevertheless, Noa persisted and made it through the entire performance of Dvorak's Legend, Nabor's Distant Worlds, and Vaughn William's English Folk Song, before the heavens opened up and we all rushed home.

Baseball Fireworks

For our own little Independence Day celebration, Owen and I went to the Nats v. Tigers game on the 3rd to see the both the literal and figurative fireworks. The Tigers jumped on top with three runs in the first, but the Nats answered with five runs in the bottom of the first, and Owen and I enjoyed it all having dinner out at the Red Porch. James Wood had a career best 5-for-5 game with a home run to celebrate announcing he was going to join the home run derby at the All Star Game, and the Nats beat the Tigers 11 to 7. To cap it all off we stuck around for the real fireworks show after the game too :-)