I never know when I walk into a venue if it will have chairs or not. Mainstage #2 had no chairs the first night, but chairs the 2nd night. Mainstage #1 had chairs the first night, but no chairs tonight. Maybe if they sell more tickets they take out the chairs to make more room.
My friend, Martine, went to school with the festival director in charge of programming. So we got to go backstage and see the band from the wings.
That's Alex Massmedia's drummer and bass player.
We ate dinner (beef shiskabob for me) sitting on a rock wall looking out at the lake and the mountains. C'est magnifique, oui?
Then back to mainstage #1 to hear American, Cody ChesnuTT, who rocked the house. Motown lives! Soulful and grooving and great story telling.
Then off to jazz in the clubs. Most of the club names are caveau de something or other. Caveau means vault or cellar, which might seem strange, but this house I'm renting has a big vault door in the basement. I asked if it used to be a bank or something, but no. Houses in Switzerland used to be required to have a vault in the basement where residents could barricade themselves in the event of an invasion. So vault and cellar are sort of the same thing here. Tonight we went to Caveau des Vignerons (Vintners Vault or Vintners Cellar). This is the club closest to mainstage #1 where the jam sessions go early into the morning. The club was packed and we had to wait for the band to take a break, at which point some of the patrons leave and there is room for more people to get in. There was a trio (keyboard, bass and drums) that played grooves more than songs. I didn't recognize any melodies. We didn't stay for the jam session part of the evening. Maybe tomorrow.
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