Our neighbors to the north in San Pancho just wrapped up another one of their annual music festivals. This event, which began as an informal jam in a local musician’s back yard, over a dozen years has grown into a major gathering of local and traveling musicians, with three nights of live music in San Pancho’s lovely Plaza del Sol.
This year the producers set up a pair of stages at right angles to each other, assuring little or no downtime between acts. The audience, comfortably seated in the middle, merely had to turn their chairs, or their heads, 90 degrees to shift the view from one stage to the other. Very convenient.
The plaza in San Pancho is pleasantly open and spacious, allowing for plenty of seats without cramming people in. Each day the shows started at 5 pm, with a warm sun setting to the west, bathing the crowd and the players in rich late afternoon light. These pictures were shot late on Saturday afternoon. That’s Leonardo Trincabelli playing the Swedish Hang, a hypnotic, steel drum-like instrument, and Joe Hadlock on solo keyboards.
Being Sayulita residents, with a carnival, concerts, and a general fiesta atmosphere cranking up the volume down here in Wild West Sayulita, we enjoyed our trip up to tranquil San Pancho, but we had to get back to Sayulita for the action. All reports are that the later sets on all three nights rocked the San Pancho house, or in this case, the plaza.
