2nd Annual Holiday Concert in Union Square

Typical Mission Street Corner

The Sign is Right

Holiday Cheer Incarnate

 

ELTD's second annual holiday concert strikes again!!! On this fine Saturday morning, Red and Susan the Turkey Daughter get up and hop to work making costumes for the afternoon concert. Thanks to some hot glue, a few choise items from the trashbags of stuff on its way to goodwill in Susan's trunk, Christmas deocorations, safety pins, pillows, a carrot and some left-over Halloween makeup, we are outfitted for just about anything, really. We sure weren't going anywhere on an empty stomach though...so sure enough we walked down to our favorite breakfast restaurant in full on costume regala and entertained the other eaters with Chritmas carols on the sidewalk while waiting for our table. Breakfast was amazing.

After the increidlbe truck drivers meal, we went back to Q headquarters, put the final touches on our fully functional costumes, loaded up the trusty saturn and fought through traffic madness of the 18 billion cars full of happy shoppers in downtown SF. Sure enough we made our way to Union Square where we unloaded the gear, parked, won a chicken fight (hands down - they didn't even stand a chance) with some dudes who were doing a scavenger hunt, set up our gear next to a hotdog/pretzel stand on the corner of Macys, and began belting out Christmas Carols at the top of our lungs - Annie Style.

For this gig we were fully expecting on busting into a street lamp, stripping one of our extention cords, and tapping into the city electircal network for power. Fortuanatly, however, the night before, Red ran into Didgital Dan who kindly offered to lend us his generator for the gig. What a hero - saving us from electricution for certain. The gig was a wild success - quotes from the crowed included an elderly gentleman who put a dollar in our case saying, "don't give up." Another favorite passer-byer was a family who came by and danced to our tunes saying that we were the best thing on the street. Indeed, we had a blast. The gig that was sceudled to end at four rocked on until about 8:30 when we could barely stand up any longer. At that point we had a whole $25 from the bills and coins people tossed in our case - $14 of which went to parking for the day. We topped off the day with another huge meal - a marvelous chinese feast at Firecracker. Both our fortune cookies revealed the same message: you are the center of attention in every crowd.

 

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