CASAA Concert in The Park Pics

**Sun Vaporer** · 01-29-2010, 03:27 AM

Originally Posted by Webby

I met today with Greg Cyprian, the Director of Events for the City of Mobile and he is VERY excited about the event. We have the full support of many Downtown merchants and this is looking like a GREAT opportunity.

CASAA's intention is first and foremost to use this event as a means of promoting public awareness and support of alternatives to smoking and harm reduction methods. Although we'd love for this to generate tons of money, our commitment is to make this a FREE event and help in any way possible to get folks to come out and meet one another.

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Web,

My old Friend, how about some good bands showing up for the event--maybe the Stones, Zepplin, Tull, and something a little more mellow like the Eagles and Bread. Add a little Kenny G and we will be all set!!

Sun

**DonleyDoRight** · 04-03-2010, 02:10 AM

Well we did it!
We had to have had at least 5000 people come through the park and check out the booths, inflatable jumping attractions, food booths and even Mobiles minor league baseball team the Bay Bears brought out a batting cage. Glowing LEDS were everywhere.

Everybody owes Webby and Mrs. Webby a HUGE thank you for all the work they did, without them this would not have happened.

Sorry webby, your Gumbo came in 4th place. I thought it was awesome though. Hard to beat the winning entry though, with all the seafood they chunked in it. Should have had a rule or a different category.

You could not have ordered a better day from a catalog. The weather was warm and became nice and sunny in the afternoon. Not a drop of rain. And the park is beautiful with a fountain, green grass and stately oaks.

We had the best bands that we could have asked for. We started out with the excentrix (now the Rejects) who played enough variety for everybody, songs we all knew the words to. Thanks guys, you helped make this a success.

We had folks dancing from 3 to 80+.

Bloody98 had a personal issue but Mark their lead guitarist made it work by inviting a touring rock ban the "KGB" straight of the road to cover for the missing member.
They absolutely blew the doors off the joint!
And Mark coordinated the bands and ran sound for all of them to. Thank you Mark.

The closing band was a professional jazz trio, the soft soothing melodies took us to close. A great way to wind down from all the work that was put into the event.

We did have some ECF members from Florida show up, thank you ladies.
The only thing that could have made this better would be to have seen all you there too, Hopefully next time. And after the success of this event I'm sure there will be.

**boochips** · 04-03-2010, 07:13 AM

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**DonleyDoRight** · 04-04-2010, 07:24 AM

Thanks for the pictures BooChips, Shows the other members what they missed. LOL.

Wanted to talk some more to you at the get together but you slipped away too soon.
Glad you could make it, I enjoyed comparing mods with you.

**MsSki** · 04-04-2010, 07:54 AM

I so wish I could have been there.

Tara

**boochips** · 04-04-2010, 08:02 AM

Originally Posted by DonleyDoRight

Thanks for the pictures BooChips, Shows the other members what they missed. LOL.

Wanted to talk some more to you at the get together but you slipped away too soon.
Glad you could make it, I enjoyed comparing mods with you.

Yea we slipped away to the Mardi Gras Museum next door...it was great.
We had a good time all weekend. Mobile is a really nice city and we had a fantastic room at the Hampton.