Mt. Pleasant Classical Academy

For five days State College becomes a small town teaming with artists selling their wares of pottery, watercolors, photos, sculptors, jewelry, fiberart, and anything else you can think an artist might make to sell. The Central Pennsylvaia Arts Festival lasts for five days. Five fun days.

Streets are closed, and folks walk everywhere to view the artists wares.

But this small town takes this one step further by bringing in musicians to play jazz, rock, folk, country, blues, oldies, and harpists. We listened to the Rustical Quality String Band:

There were a few instruments we had never seen before. Here’s one and we still don’t have a name for it. Do you?

Then there are the dancers and the magicians and comedians and… the list goes on and on!

This magician was quite entertaining, and a young fella whose age I would guess at 12yo. Magician Joe mcNitt and his lovely assistant Liz truly had great tricks and stage presence. These kids were really into interacting with this young magician. Fun to see.

Ricky Lee was the last musician we watched and this is a rather rare shot too.

We never saw his eyes, and he definitly appeared to be quite afraid of the audience since this is how we usually saw him:

The best act by far was the Footbagger. He was AEWSOME. Footbagging is taking a little hacky sack ball, kicking it into the air, and doing tricks. For 2 or 3 minutes, continuously, to music. Totally amazing. At the end of the show he invited some kids up on stage to try footbagging. Four taps was all these kids could muster but one lucky kid walked away with a new hacky sack.

And the kids, they loved the Arts Festival. They wanted to attend the concerts, and performances, and look at what was being sold.  Boy, did they soak it all in.