Georgetown Red Poppy Fest 2018

Last year, when we went to Georgetown's Red Poppy Fest, we had a blast. So, we decided to do it again!

This year, we had an added reason. My three college students need one more concert for their music appreciation class. There are three concert stages, with continuous concerts all three days of the fair.

Red Poppy Fest poster

We arrived around mid-afternoon and wandered among the vendors selling this or that. We did not find anything of great interest. Unlike last year, when it was cold and either rained or threatened rain all day, today was a beautiful and warm day. One of the local shops, a bar and restaurant with entertainment called Roots, attracted our attention again this year.

On tap, they had a rather unusually named beer:

Since we raise goats, we just could pass this one by. It turned out to be a medium, full-flavored, somewhat hoppy beer. We liked it very much. At $6.00 for a pint, this was a better buy than most of the other vendors who were charging $6.00 and up for a 12-oz beer!

Roots offers another advantage — it is close to the Red Poppy, or main, stage.

At 7:30, a "southern soul" band came on stage: Prophets and Outlaws. In this photograph, you can see them in the foreground with "PAO" on their drum.

Their music is kind of different, but they are definitely pretty good.

During their set, my wife decided it was time for food. My daughter and I wandered through the food courts, looking for the German booth we had found last year. They didn't come this year. Plan B was pizza. (Plan B is ALWAYS pizza! ;)). The going rate for the booths was $12 for a twelve inch pizza. Roots was offering an eighteen inch pizza for less that two of the twelve inch pies. We ordered a take-out pizza from Roots and ate it in front of the stage. Roots makes excellent pizzas!!

For us, the main event was Joe Nichols. It seemed like "forever" while we waited for POA to be cleared off of the stage and the rest of Joe Nichol's gear to be set up.

Joe finally took the stage at 9:00....

Youth Orchestra of San Antonio with the San Antonio Symphony Orchestra

My college students are at it again. This time the concert, entitled YOSA Side by Side, is a combined concert of the San Antonio Symphony Orchestra and the program for young musicians, Youth Orchestra of San Antonio. For a venue, the Laurie Auditorium at Trinity University was selected.

The Laurie Auditorium is huge. It will seat 2700 people!