DizneyMike’s World

Well, my wife, Julie, is still visiting with family back in Boston so I traveled over to Epcot's Food and Wine Festival by myself to see another Eat to the Beat concert at the American Garden Theater in front of the American Adventure.

Performing tonight was the group Sister Hazel. To be very honest I had no idea who Sister Hazel was or what songs they sang. In fact, I really didn't know if it was a woman or a group. OK, with that said now you know how out of touch I am with the current pop/rock music scene. Judging from the large number of fans they had in the audience it was obvious that I was one of the very few who didn't know of this group. I should say that the group is from Gainesville, Florida; so its roots are very much local.

Even though I didn't know any of their songs, I did enjoy the group. The lead singer has a great voice and I did like their songs. However, I only stayed for one set for two reasons. First of all for the fact I didn't want to sit through another set of unfamiliar songs and secondly, if you weren't a Florida Gator fan (and I'm not) you could be put off (as I was) by both the group and some of their fans. I spoke with a couple of folks after the concert and they felt the same as I did.

For those of you who aren't familiar with Sister Hazel, they are a rock group who had a number of hit songs with their biggest being "All For You". As I mentioned before they are from Gainesville, Florida, the lead singer attended the University of Florida (hence the strong Florida Gators connection) and the band's fans are called "Hazelnuts."

They said they would change up the songs in each of the sets, but would include the crowd-pleasing "All For You" in each set.

The familiar Eat to the Beat concert series sign that's on the stage.

Please leave me a comment and tell me if you were there what you thought of the concert or what your memories are of the group or of previous concerts. I love to get comments.

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Well, that’s all for now. As my good friend says, “See ya real soon”….DizneyMike