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Hannah Bell Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-02-10 06:37 AM
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What in the world is going on in Fairfield, Iowa?
Fairfield has 9,500 people, add about 300 at Maharishi U. Des Moines is about 2 hours away, I guess that's the nearest big city.

But they've got a performing arts center & something called the fairfield musicians's club & they're putting on some great shows -- apparently with local talent. the oldest musicians look like they're in their 60s-70s & the youngest in their 20s.


some video from a motown review in january, looks like about half the town on stage, other half in the audience:

here's the big finale, love train, with the whole cast & audience rocking out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJ9L2P4FruA&feature=related


here's the mayor & radio station manager singing as part of the "four tops" (i'll be there)

http://www.youtube.com/user/FairfieldRocksMe#p/u/2/KcDrNurJrxk


papa was a rolling stone:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pcj2fjsDB0M&feature=related


you keep me hanging on

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9YaQ2p1k1o&feature=related


credible let's stay together by 50-ish woman

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZVsb4nAIE0


midnight train to georgia: lead's no gladys knight, but listenable & looks like they're having fun, back-up is great

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_nQfdUohi8


at last (etta james)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyDKxLd0K9M&feature=related


mustang sally

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eb4XI-cLg8E&feature=related


etc.


this looks like so much fun.

anyone know anything about fairfield?






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xchrom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-02-10 06:41 AM
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1. i have a lot of family from there -- still one cousin from there.
the whole family on both sides hail from burlington, mt pleasant, and fairfield.

the town really changed after the meditation university moved in.

it just became hipper -- and now they are doing the right things to attract a younger 'quality of life' crowd to come back.
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Hannah Bell Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-02-10 06:46 AM
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2. how do they field so many decent musicians from
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conscious evolution Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-02-10 06:49 AM
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3. Its the hippys
We love to make some music.Its part of the hearing color,seeing sound thing.
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Hannah Bell Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-02-10 06:51 AM
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4. i didn't notice any hippies.
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Scuba Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-02-10 07:19 AM
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6. We look different now.
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Lochloosa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-02-10 09:30 AM
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19. +1
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conscious evolution Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-02-10 07:26 AM
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7. If the Maharishi is involved
there will be hippys close behind.
Always.
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Hannah Bell Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-02-10 08:06 PM
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21. so tell me about maharishi u.
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conscious evolution Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-10 07:38 AM
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22. Admittedly,I don't know much about MU
Never even heard of it till this OP,as a matter of fact.
What I do know is that whereever gurus like the Maharishi go,hippys follow.Its just the way it is.
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Hannah Bell Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-04-10 01:04 AM
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23. he's dead. so have the hippies followed?
i kid.
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John Q. Citizen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-02-10 09:26 AM
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16. Hippies with haircuts.
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Echo In Light Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-02-10 09:27 AM
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17. Check out the Place of Skulls show I cited below - plenty of us w/waist-length hair! lol
Edited on Wed Jun-02-10 09:28 AM by Echo In Light
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Echo In Light Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-02-10 09:08 AM
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13. +1
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xchrom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-02-10 07:01 AM
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5. well its still a small town with long winters
and so you have to do something.

besides the world is a small place -- you move some where find a good thing -- you pass it on and friends move and so on.

many of the people who live there now arent from there, that neck of the woods went through a pretty good depopulating phase.
its a little better now from what i can tell.
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madrchsod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-02-10 07:29 AM
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8. my dad`s family is from the fairfield area
he was born there and i still have relatives in burlington and mt pleasant iowa.

besides the guru, fairfield is famous for Parsons College....http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsons_College

my dad said it was quite a shock to the folks when the guru bought the college but it brought in a lot of money...

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xchrom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-02-10 08:38 AM
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11. I wonder if we played Iowa geography if we'd know
Some folk in common.
I bet my mom would.
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Bluenorthwest Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-02-10 08:03 AM
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9. The difference is you. And thanks for that
What's going on in that town goes on in many towns, maybe better, maybe worse, but in towns across America, and the world, everyday people make theater for their communities. What is refreshing here is that you are taking note of the fact that it is a wonderful thing they are doing, that they are having a hell of a good time, and that it is a worthwhile thing to do.
Most of the time you hear about 'community playhouses'. "Oh, they get up and do plays for each other. The city gives them a break on rent for the hall, but they don't make money. Football makes money."
Usually, such groups don't get anyone saying they are cool, or pointing out that such things build community, promote the town even.
So good for you, and thanks to you..
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Hannah Bell Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-02-10 03:08 PM
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20. my town has about 3 times the population but our community musicals don't
field that much competence.

the band didn't hit a wrong note.



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rurallib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-02-10 08:09 AM
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10. They have a great community radio station
and are very, very progressive. A town called Vedic City was built just north of Fairfield a few years back.
We go down there occasionally
http://www.kruufm.com/
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cyberswede Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-02-10 09:04 AM
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12. They also have a subdivision of sustainable housing
Fairfield ‘blazing a trail’ for other Iowa cities eyeing sustainability
Community-by-community response to climate change offers Iowa its best chance to become a national leader in sustainability
By Beth Dalbey 1/4/10 6:00 AM

FAIRFIELD — Lonnie Gamble, who lives in a solar and wind powered straw bale home in this Jefferson County community, hasn’t paid a gas or electric bill in two decades. The residents of Abundance Eco Village, a 13-unit subdivision Gamble developed with a partner, hope to replicate his record in their wood-construction homes.

Cypress Villages, a 145-acre subdivision taking shape on organically-certified land north of Fairfield, aims to be Iowa’s first community to be completely LEED-Platinum — the U.S. Green Building Council’s highest designation.

(from http://iowaindependent.com/24858/fairfield-%E2%80%98blazing-a-trail%E2%80%99-for-other-iowa-cities-eyeing-sustainabili)


Check out Cyprus Villages: http://www.cypressvillages.com/ and
Abundance Eco Village: http://www.abundance-ecovillage.com/

Lots of neat stuff going on there!



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MineralMan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-02-10 09:14 AM
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14. Same thing that is going on in many places.
There are just fewer alternatives for something else to do in Fairfield.

Most places, including big cities, have stuff like this going on. The place I used to live had a theater that did all of the Gilbert & Sullivan cycle of musicals. Year after year. They packed the place all the time. I played oboe in the pit orchestra for a couple of years. It was great fun. Very popular, but went unnoticed by most residents. There was so much going on that you could choose your entertainment.

In Fairfield? Not so much, I'd guess.
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Echo In Light Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-02-10 09:15 AM
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15. And not far from Ia at all, The Cornerstone Festival, Marietta, IL, July 2nd
Edited on Wed Jun-02-10 09:17 AM by Echo In Light
Lots of bands

http://www.cornerstonefestival.com/bandsDay.php?Day=56&Page=day&y=27

Place of Skulls on Fri July 2nd 1pm !!!



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treestar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-02-10 09:29 AM
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18. I don't know, but from reading the thread, it sounds like a wonderful thing!
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