It's very relaxing to be at Cornerstone a day before anything starts. We've set up our merch booth, our camp, and we're ready. The cool band Psalters played on the worship stage by the beach. And though it started slow, with chants of the Lord's Prayer, it built up and it's jamming right now. They've taken on this topic and vibe and passion of refugees and immersed themselves in it to identify with it, as we are refugees -- all of us -- and it is a place where we can serve (the displaced and less fortunate of those around us).
Lots of instruments, dancers, participants, lots of Middle Eastern atonal accents, and a pulsating groove that's infectious. We are only a few hundred feet away from the stage where we camp, so my whole family is going to sleep with their tunes supplicating their ears. We don't know it, but our horizons are being expanded musically while we drift off to sleep.
What a cool way to pre-start the fest. Tomorrow is Tooth & Nail Day, and it'll be full of great and condensed/concise sets. I can't wait to see Children 18:3 torch the stage at 12:30 in the afternoon, as well as tons of others.
Posted by Doug Van Pelt at July 3, 2006 10:32 PM