Love GrassRoots, but don't need to be there all weekend (198.0)
The Finger Lakes GrassRoots Festival of Music and Dance at the Trumansburg Fairground outside Ithaca is this weekend, Thursday through Sunday, and while I was really glad to get back there last July after two years of no festival (in 2020) and mini festival (in 2021), I'm taking a more restrained approach this year. I spent all of Thursday evening there until I bugged out just in time to avoid the downpour, and probably won't make it back up at all.
Thursday happened to have many of the acts I wanted to see, and while there are several others I'd love to catch over the course of the weekend, they're all spread out such that it's harder to justify the return trip. I have a press pass, so I don't have to pay to get in, but driving back and forth (and then walking between festival and off-site parking) takes a lot of time, and paying for that off-site parking is one of the hurdles. It's not TOO much. $10 for a day or $25 for the whole weekend. But it adds to the hesitation. The further-away off-site parking until about five years ago was free, and there was a shuttle bus running all the time.
There's plenty to do in town, and dogs to take care of!
Thursday happened to have many of the acts I wanted to see, and while there are several others I'd love to catch over the course of the weekend, they're all spread out such that it's harder to justify the return trip. I have a press pass, so I don't have to pay to get in, but driving back and forth (and then walking between festival and off-site parking) takes a lot of time, and paying for that off-site parking is one of the hurdles. It's not TOO much. $10 for a day or $25 for the whole weekend. But it adds to the hesitation. The further-away off-site parking until about five years ago was free, and there was a shuttle bus running all the time.
There's plenty to do in town, and dogs to take care of!