12/7/10

¡Feria de Quitumbre! (December 5-6)

On Sunday and Monday I went to one of the major events of the Festivals of Quito, the Fair in South Quito. The highlight of my experience there was definitely seeing The Wailers concert! Even without Bob Marley, they were still excellent and they played a lot of my favorite songs, including: No Woman, No Cry, I Shot the Sheriff, Jammin, One Love, Exodus, Punky Reggae Party, Get Up Stand Up, a new tribute song to world hunger and more! The concert was free, outside in the sun and we were able to get pretty close to the stage, it doesn´t get much better than that!
Other than the Wailers, there were over 30 other musicians who played over the weekend, from all over Latin America and Europe.
After the concert, I tried some delicious Ecuadorian style fair food; fried dough balls with sugar, merange and chocolate covered strawberries on a stick!

 The Wailers Vocalists: Duane Stephenson, Koolant, one I can´t remember 
and the I-Threes (there are now two women)

 Aston "Family Man" Barrett on bass

 Just one of the crazy paintings that was completed during the festival

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