Tonight’s free summer concert was at The Meadows, an outdoor shopping mall in Lake St. Louis. Ted and I invited our friends, Mike and Liz, to join us and the four of us had a good time together.
The venue was the center circle of the mall, which features a clock tower and several sculptures of cattails.
Because of the plantings around the circle, it was hard to get a good crowd shot. The food trucks were behind the cattail sculpture in the left center and that entire street (about a block long), plus part of the street on the right were filled with people in lawn chairs.
Music was provided by Vote 4 Pedro, described on their Facebook page as “a St. Louis wedding band.” Here’s what V4P has to say about themselves. Don’t you think they ought to stick with one way to spell the name of their group?
Here’s the band. None of the musicians is named Pedro.
They were good! The only down time between songs was the girl singer saying “Thank you, Lake St. Louis,” before she moved into the next song, apparently without taking a breath. Evidence of their good beat was that people started dancing on the first song, unlike Music on Main when it took an hour and half of the two-hour concert to get people dancing.
This guy started dancing when the first note was played, and he never missed a song for the entire two hours. This is pretty much his only dance move, unless you count doing the same thing with his other foot. He had energy, though, and smiled all the while he danced.
Raise your hand if you see a resemblance between Fletch (Chevy Chase) and Dancer Guy (above).
This little girl lip synced every song and really had some good dance moves.
We sat beside a family of 15 who brought dinner for everyone in their group.
The “dance floor” went about one-third of the way around the circle–wherever there wasn’t a lawn chair–because so many people were dancing.
It was another good night of summer music. Next concert: Saturday night. Tune in for the update.