CULTURAL OPPORTUNITY- BROWN BAG IT

For my last Cultural Opportunity I asked my boss If I could take 30 minutes off to watch a Brown Bag it show, it’s a free event that PACE provides for the Peoria Courthouse Plaza doing the lunch hour, being that I work down there I could watch them play through the window but I can't really here the music or experience it. The show play every Mondays, Wednesday and Fridays during the summer they have different talents perform from jazz to banjos, youth bands and even swing. This week I saw John Heasley a guitar player he was a one man band. He didn’t have a big crowd maybe because it was the early half of his performance. I didn’t know any of the music because that’s not the music I listen to plus he was an older guy so he probably was playing songs from way back in the 60’s I think the kind of music sounded like blues/folks music. Yes, I was bored out of my mind. I only stayed for like two songs because I only had 30 minutes to watch but the songs where very long. In all I thought he was a very good guitarist that is the only thing I thought was good, I mean his singing wasn’t all that bad either I just didn’t know any of the songs and couldn’t feel his music as I was listening. Maybe next time I know to do some research on a band before I go listen so I could have a general idea of what their music is about but then again if your music is good it doesn’t matter if you know it or not. But after listening to a couple songs I went to work and asked my coworkers did they recognize any of the songs and I was told one of them was a Bob Dylan song I didn’t catch it.