OUR Fest Photos from 2005

These are photos from the 2005 OUR Fest taken by our old pal Karen Olson.

Let me walk you through these photos, shall I?

These two photos are of a band that looks remarkably like Hypnotic Clambake, but is actually the New York Klezmer Orchestra. The NYKO usually goes on first on Saturday morning (Day 2 of the festival). We usually start up the festival in order to keep the band schedule... um ... on schedule. I usually camp in my van next to the stage. So when it comes time to play the Saturday morning set, I literally roll out of bed, and roll onto the stage.



This is the cat-fish shaped pillow that was hanging under the Aquarium Stage. We caught it while fishing in a river of feathers.



Here is a shrunken version of the Snake Oil Medicine Show playing the Aquarium Stage.



Here is a shot of The Buddhahood.


Here's a random smattering of OUR Fest people.



Here's some shots of the legendary Baby Gramps, one from the Main Stage, and one from the Aquarium Stage. The weird part, is that these two photos were taken at the SAME TIME.




Here's some shots of Snake Oil Medicine Show rocking the hizzouse. The first photo shows Phil Cheney and Tovah painting. Phil is the artist behind the OUR Fest posters and t-shirts. That might be Maury playing piano in the darkness. Sitting in on guitar is Jason Krekel from the Mad Tea Party.




Here is Clambake playing, I think, the Friday night set. From left to right is Jim Shwarz (bass), me, Maury, Rick McCrae (trombone), JoAnn, and Tim Hull. This, I believe, was the OUR Fest that we played after the Mayonnaise CD was released. The line-up here, is the band that was recorded on the CD, and the line-up that we've, more or less, stuck with ever since.