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Wednesday, September 11, 2019 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
NO NAME: Lake has
seen a recent spike
in visitors
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PHOTO BY ISAAC KANZIG
Flor de Toloache, an all-female mariachi band from New York, wow the crowd with stylings that took off from the
Mexican tradition to incorporate everything from a touch of Motown to “reggaeachi.”
FOLK FESTIVAL: Event
showed power of
musical connections
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4 and backgrounds, the
shared experience at the
Sisters Folk Festival seemed
to draw everyone involved
closer together.
Friday evening Pharis
Romero, from northern
British Columbia, expressed
her appreciation for the expe-
rience she and her husband,
Jason, were having while
playing at The Open Door.
<I feel like I9ve died and
gone to folk heaven,= she
said.
<The sense of community
is what causes artists to want
to return and why we have
so many ticket-holders and
sponsors coming back year
after year,= said SFF Creative
Director Brad Tisdel.
Much of Tisdel9s work as
creative director for SFF is
focused at bringing the com-
munity together.
<I view the Sisters Folk
Festival as a model of eco-
nomic development, com-
munity engagement, schools
partnership, and community-
building through music that
is unique and dynamic. I see
how it helps folks to feel they
are contributing and engaged
in something bigger than
themselves,= he said.
Martyn Joseph, who has
played in Sisters a number
of times, put it this way: <If
Oregon is a cathedral, then
Sisters is a chapel on the
hill.= He added, <Coming
to Sisters is like revisiting,
remembering and rediscov-
ering true America. The great
thing about all this (the fes-
tival) is that it reminds us of
the greater good and the big-
ger picture.=
After her final per-
formance Sunday, Wood
described how the SFF is dif-
ferent than most festivals in
that the audiences come not
just to listen, but to actively
take part.
<The active engage-
ment from the audience cre-
ates a circular, reciprocal
communication between
the audience and the artist,
which forms that connected-
ness that makes the Sisters
Folk Festival special,= she
explained.
Susan Gibson reflected
on the week before the final
song Sunday morning and
thanked those who had come
<from far away and also
those from right down the
street= and urged everyone
to remember what had been
shared over the three days.
She told the audience that
<the artists come to see you,
not the other way around=
underlining the mutual inter-
play between performers and
listeners.
Many artists touched on
the notion that there has
never been a more important
time than now to foster com-
munity, not just in Sisters,
but everywhere we go. Beth
Wood pointed to this year9s
poster by Dennis McGregor
and alluded to the ripples that
come off the canoe as being
<like the ripples of the magic
and connectedness that were
experienced that can be taken
out into the world as every-
one goes back to their regular
lives.=
Mandy Fer of Sway Wild
said, <This week has been
such a wonderful reminder
about the power of music and
human connection.=
Keith Greeninger, known
for his thought-provoking
lyrics and concern for oth-
ers, closed things out for
the morning with a song he
actually wrote as a teenager
that comes from the per-
spective of a homeless man.
In an interview afterwards
he said, <We can talk all
we want about community,
but let9s not leave anybody
out.=
He added, <Sisters has
such a magical commu-
nity and it9s so strong. You
all treat each other so well
and treat your youth so
well. I find that the whole
way Sisters and the folk
festival are doing things
just radiates out into your
community.=
lake are made up of a gla-
cial moraine composed of
rock and gravel, which is not
conducive to the digging of
waste disposal <cat holes= or
to the organic decomposition
of the waste.
<Day hikers are not
affected,= said Nelson-Dean,
<but everyone needs to
adhere to appropriate back-
country behavior.=
Inappropriate user behav-
ior has been an increasing
problem in local wilder-
ness areas, as evidenced by
sweeping new wilderness
trail restrictions slated to be
imposed on a wilderness-
wide basis next year. The No
Name Lake area is one of the
many areas slated to require
limited-entry fee permits
starting next year.
The term <No Name
Lake= is actually something
of a misnomer. Although the
lake has no officially desig-
nated name, it actually has
several names. Some have
referred to it as Bend Glacier
Lake; it sits beneath the snout
of Bend Glacier on Broken
Top. Others refer to it as
Broken Top Lake, and it9s
also been called Iceberg Tarn.
Day hikers are
not affected, but
everyone needs to
adhere to appropriate
backcountry behavior.
— Jean Nelson-Dean
The character of the lake
is such that the glacial melt-
water escapes through a deep
gash in the relatively <fresh=
moraine that Bend glacier
pushed up in the not-too-dis-
tant geologic past.
PHOTO BY CRAIG EISENBEIS
This view of Broken Top from “No Name Lake” is one of the top scenic
views in Oregon.
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