Tunes in the Dunes Part II - 2019

It’s a beautiful Friday and we are off to help shuttle folks into camp, get our gear set up in our favorite tent and be ready to let the music flow around and through us!  The teachers and performers this year are outstanding, as usual, but there is some extra energy that charges the air.  Sunshine?  Ocean waves?  Smiling faces?  Laughing voices?

The Hood River Trio, now Quadro...play up a storm...and then some.  Through out the weekend, they show up EVERYWHERE!  On the deck, in the dining hall, on the beach, all day and late into the night, This group ROCKS!

Aaron takes a turn at the bass.

Andy starts off sing alongs / play alongs.

Kate and Steve offer introductions to songs new to me,  and I return home with those melodies and words swirling in my head and heart.

KJ heads the kitchen staff again and the meals are totally awesome, healthy, local grown (except the oranges!) and good to the last bite.

Each meal we sing:  “Thank you for this food, this food, this glorious food.  For the minerals, and the vegetables and the animals...that make it possible!”

With the early morning beach walks we sink into a deeper understanding of this place and space.

A sacred hour after lunch allows us to creep down to the beach and sit in the Dunes ...breathe the sea air, play a few tunes and be grateful for the sun and warm.

Evenings offer up a teacher concert, a chance for an open mic experience and more song and fellowship.  

Saturday night there is a starry night, moon light, campfire....and yes, more music!

Sunday.  Goodbye day.  So long, old friends and new. So long, ukulele lessons from great teachers. So long, yummy, carefully prepared meals.  So long, waves rolling in.  So long, songs swirling through the air...everywhere.  So long, Westwind.  Until next year and Tunes In the Dunes X!  Already put it on the calendar!