Campo Konex
Well, we went to a music festival this past Sunday in the town of Lujan. Lujan is about 30 miles from Bs. As. and if you were driving out to the field where the concert was it should have taken about 1 hr. We were going to get a ride from our friend Claudio but he didn’t think his car would make it so…. We took the bus. Good ole’ bus #57 - and boy was that fun, Dorothy you are not in Kansas anymore! Basically standing room only (thankfully we got seats) for about the 1 – 2 hr trip. When we arrived into town you take another shuttle bus out to this open field where the festival was taking place.
The festival was very cool. vendors selling crafts, food (beef!), ice cream, fields set up to play futbol very chill…. Finally we headed into the music area, first up was Juana Molina (actually we missed the 1st performer) – she is an interesting story, the daughter of a famous tango singer (who we actually saw perform at our only tango show), also was 1st a famous t.v. star, and now is trying her hand at music. Supposedly she has a following overseas – meaning U.S., Europe, etc… - but in arg hardly anyone knows her for her music. She had a pretty voice, definitely some out there stuff – think Bjork – but it was cool just being in the open field enjoying the atmosphere as night fell. Next up was Kevin Johansen. Very interesting fellow, American dad, Argentine mom, grew up in both places, lived in nyc from 1990 -2000 (!) and was a regular at the world famous CBGB for years. In 2000 moved back to Bs. As. (just in time for the crisis) and has released 3 albums to much acclaim here and in Europe. His style is hard to describe, the press likens it to Manu Chao, Café tacuba (basically groups who perform in Spanish but cant really be labeled) anyway he was great! We have his latest cd, City Zen, and it’s a pretty cool mellow cd. he was the rare performer who actually sounded better live and was very comfortable on the stage (probably all those nyc crowds toughened him up). The last performer was spinetta but seeing as mr. johansen played a long time – finished around 12 – we figured it was time for the long trek back to Bs. As. – needless to say we got home close to 3am but as they say here “vale la pena” (it was worth it).
Other random music things, they actually have a thriving reggae scene here - that I discovered last week - this band named Los Cafres are pretty cool. And hopefully we are going to go to some reggae clubs the next wknd we are here. (Brasil this wknd!!!)
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