Pioneertown, June 2008 - Manimal Festival
 Pappy
and Harriet's hosted the 1st Annual Manimal Festival on June 7th.
Indian chiefs from all over the high desert came. |
 Sound
Stage at
Pioneertown, located
a few miles outside Yucca Valley near Joshua Tree National Park, originally built as a movie set for Western movies. The movie set was
to provide a place for the actors to live, and have their homes used as part
of a movie set. |
 Pioneertown.What would Roy Rogers have made of people converting this facade into a home? |
 Mariee
Sioux sings songs at the saloon. |
 Xu
Xu Fang's ju ju dance. |
 The
Fang.
See more photos of Xu Xu Fang at The Echo (August 2009) here. |
 Photographing
the Fang in the beauty of the desert sunset. |
 Winter
Flowers with the hovering desert moon. |
 Winter
Flowers and the ever-present desert moon over the shoulder of guitarist /
vocalist / mandolin player Christof Certik. |
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 We
Are the World at Pappy and Harriet's in the high desert, near Joshua Tree. |
 Ryan
Heffington designs and makes his own costumes, some evoking an ethereal
quasi-Middle Eastern flair. The dance ensemble had the audience
stopped dead in their tracks, gawking at every move, having a subversive
quality that I can't quite identify. |
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Pioneertown June 2008 Manimal Festival
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Contact photographer/musician Ken Lee
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Photos of Pioneertown: Joshua Tree 2001 Leonid Meteor Shower 2001 Pioneertown-knee deep in desert snow! Pioneertown 2005-Daniel Lanois, Victoria Williams, The Donnas Pioneertown 2006-Gram Rabbit, Ralph Stanley, Cholla Cactus Garden Pioneertown 2007 Clean Air, Clear Stars Festival with Gram Rabbit and Winter Flowers Pioneertown 2008 Manimal Festival with Xu Xu Fang and Winter Flowers Joshua Tree 2009 Falling Planes, Joshua Trees, Wonder Valley Pioneertown and Joshua Tree 2010 Desert Willow & Gram Rabbit, April |
