Last Friday Mary and I gathered a few friends up and went to the Minnesota state fair. This was the first year I can remember going to the fair and the food wasn’t the main reason for going. Mary and I picked Friday night because Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings were playing a free show on the Lienie Lodge stage.
When we got to the stage I was impressed by the number of people that were there. The show started with the Dap-Kings coming to the stage and entertaining us with a couple of upbeat instrumentals which really got the crowd going. Instantly the little soul man in me started to find his grove. Sharon then took the stage and had the crowd in the palm of her hand. She played a lot of my favorites from her earlier albums and did an amazing cover of “This is a Man’s World” by James Brown.
Since it was the State Fair I expected to see the crowd dwindle as the show went on but Sharon didn’t disappoint. She invited people up on the stage to dance with her which at times was entertaining and times creepy. Imagine if you will a early forty year old male, shirtless with jean shorts and flowing blonde hair trying to dance with Sharon Jones. I my was much more smooth of course, I must have looked like a white James Brown in the crowd. Not only was I cutting the rug, I was eating a gigantic turkey drumstick that looked like it came from the Cloverfield monster.
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