Riverfest at Riverwalk
This past weekend the wife, the daughter and I took a little trip to some old stomping grounds of mine down to Clarksville, Tennessee. I had spent a lot of time there during the 16 months I was stationed at Ft. Campbell, KY with the 101st Airborne Division. I have to say, though, it has changed considerably since I was there last.

For this particular trip, however, we had come down for the Riverfest festival at a small park called Riverwalk. It's an area that stretches along the Cumberland River and has a nice setting to just take a load off. At this festival there was plenty to keep you busy and lots of music of all kinds. There was even a special kids section with lots of different activities for them as well.
Like to dance? There was plenty of room for that. You could dance in the grass, on the sidewalk, on a hillside, in front of the stage, even in the street if you could find an empty one. One Latino band had hips moving back and forth like a California earthquake.











I'm sure the crew of this towboat appreciated the sounds and sights that came with the festival after seeing nothing but miles and miles of river bank.








The band Raposo drove 18 hours from Long Island New York to come to perform at the festival and they brought the house down in almost a literal sense. The band had people up dancing and rockin' and rollin' through every song they played.







You could say that Raposo literally rocked up a storm. Even Mother Nature like the show so much that she provided the light show as a border-line severe thunderstorm blew up to the south. Lightning exploded all over the sky as the band cranked out song after song. Unfortunately she got so into it that the show had to be shortened because of a danger of the stage tent being blown over, as well as a lightning possibly bolt landing in the middle of the stage (now that would have made a REAL picture). By the way...you can find out more about group of New Yawkers at www.raposomusic.com.