San Diego IndieFest -- Images From A Festival That Matters

Yesterday, my family and I attended our second San Diego IndieFest music festival - the 9th in a continuing annual series.  The festival -- with hot headlining indie band Bear Hands -- is a "labor of love" (literally) born by Alicia Champion (someone I have come to know and deeply respect) and spouse (and featured artist) Daneille Lopresti.  And it matters.  It matters to the community (this time City Heights, at the perfect intimate, open and family-friendly venue).  It matters to musicians and fans alike.  And it matters in terms of its message -- which is "Rock to Stop Violence."  Here are some scenes early in the day on another glorious San Diego day.

Images from top to bottom -- (1) my wife Luisa and I are captured at the festival's photo booth and asked to write "what matters" to us, (2) Luisa and festival co-creator Alicia Champion discuss the festival's roots and impact, (3) an image from early in the day, (4) my daughter, Hunter (with the braids) and her friend Izzy at the photo wall, (5) my son, Luca, at the art tent, and (6) Hunter and Izzy's photo of meaning (note the consistent theme of family and music ... and Hunter's "shout out" to indie band (and obsession) Warpaint, whom she has seen 3 times already and whom we will see again soon headlining Desert Daze in early May).