Re: [Harp-L] Re: SPAH convention

[fjm <bad_hat@xxxxxxxx>]

I haven't been to a Jam Camp.  They sound fun and I'm sure they are.  I 
have been to a couple of SPAHs and I find them somewhat overwhelming but 
not because of the size.  It's about the focus.  It's too harmonica 
centric for me.  I'm a musician who happens to play harmonica and SPAH 
while being somewhat about music is really more about harmonica.  The 
recent ranking of some of the younger players is an example of what I'm 
talking about.  Granted it's a huge event with little corners of 
interest at every turn.  It's pretty easy to wander down the right hall 
and bump into something interesting. I didn't go this year.  I couldn't 
wrap my mind around being adjacent to the Mall of the Americas.  I did 
go last year, I really liked the location city, Sacramento.  Ironically 
the other harmonica event city I really liked was Minneapolis but at the 
Harmonica Summit and in the centre of downtown not in a suburb.