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. |
 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
Eleven Shadows Travel Page
Contact photographer/musician Ken Lee
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Other photos of Pioneertown: Joshua Tree 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 |
