Where did you meet your spouse-sweetie-significant other?

[jonnygospeltent]

Was there music involved?
I met the lovely wife 30 years ago this week at 98 cent pitcher night at The Thirsty Whale. The band playing was called Punch and they were really good.

[festivalgirl]

Was there music involved?
I met the lovely wife 30 years ago this week at 98 cent pitcher night at The Thirsty Whale. The band playing was called Punch and they were really good.

CONGRATS!!!! We're at 15 years in a couple of weeks.

We met at work & each always had music playing in our work areas. It was one of the first things we realized we had in common. JF was a no brainer!! :D

[Lostcajun]

In high school at O Perry Walker High in Algiers 30 years ago! She is still my best friend.

[Lostcajun]

This past fest was her first with me, and it was wonderful to see her dance with friends and Ths to Stevie Wonder in the Rain. a GREAT moment!!!! Glad is was raining to hide the tears of joy.....

[ibjamn]

Hebjamn & I met online and there was no music involved. (There was trivia involved.) But I did make him go to Jazz Fest before I married him. ;)

[sophisticated sissy]

Ibjamn', so we can take it that he passed muster? That is pretty good judging criteria before making a huge commitment, though!

My Spousal Unit & I met in an alley! :D He's never been to JF. And after a quarter century of marriage, I'm afraid to ... what if he doesn't like it?!?:eek: :p :D

[duende]

Meet my Yvonne (the sweetest one, me-oh-my-oh) at a BBQ at a friend's brother-in-law's house about 15 years ago. The hosts were deadheads & hot air balloon people and my wife knew them from both activities. Everyone ate, I schmoozed the cute deadhead, and then everyone went to a nearby club to play pool and listen to loud rock'n'roll. So, yes, there was music involved - the band was Gringo Loco, and I was (am) one of the geetar players. It was wonderful night - and a private victory dance... usually the drummer gets the girl!

[Frosty]

It's a sordid story but remember how God created Eve for Adam? Now imagine Calvin with an ice cream scoop.

Frosty

[jhjpotter]

We met in a bar in Palo Alto, named, appropriately enough, Nola!!

http://www.nolas.com/images/nola.gif

[chrisjoseph]

Is this question directed towards my current spouse, or the next one? :)

[festbabe]

Aw, what a sweet question, I look forward to reading everyone's stories (except maybe CJ :p )

Mike & I are both musicians, and we met while playing in the same group (this was about 15 years ago). So absolutely, without music, we would not have 'found' each other.

What's really funny about it, neither of us were attracted to the other back then, although we were friends and would share beers after rehearsal together (with the group). Maybe because he was married at the time? Ten years ago, he and his (then) wife moved to a new house right before I bought and moved to my current house, so he let me take all the good packing boxes. Ha! - who knew that about four years after that he'd be moving here (should have kept the boxes).

Edited to add: They were divorced about a year before there was any flirting between us. When I re-read this it sounded like he left his wife and moved in with me - NOT!

[Carolina Beadhead]

I went to visit a friend in college in Raleigh and Richard was my blind date. We went out to eat and to a bar. There was music playing but damned if I can tell you who it was...

Just celebrated 31 years together this past June. :)
(And, no, he doesn't come to Fest. That's why we're still married.)

[swag]

I haven't met the future Mrs Swag yet, I don't think, but when I do, my hunch is it'll either be in New Orleans, at a Fest somewhere else, or maybe on a board like this one...

[chrisjoseph]

I haven't met the future Mrs Swag yet, I don't think, but when I do, my hunch is it'll either be in New Orleans, at a Fest somewhere else, or maybe on a board like this one...

that will have to be a wedding at the Gospel Tent. Or at the Patry.

[where yat brah]

Laundromat

[stynger]

Music was very much involved in our dating. I had been making deliveries to my future wife's office for over a year before I really noticed her. I asked her out. If I had done it any sooner she wouldn't have gone out with me as she was getting over a breakup.

Our first date was to Universal City to see "The Commitments". I learned shortly after that she had attended the "TAMI Show". For those not in the know that was a concert in Santa Monica in 1965 that featured among others The Rolling Stones and James Brown. It was made into a movie which a later edited version I had on video. I took it over to her house and we watched it as she told me stories about that night.

I figured anyone who had seen the orginal Rolling Stones and had seen perhaps James Brown most famous moment onstage....well I could hang out with her. :D

[Delta]

At a bar shooting pool on a Friday night. The only music involved was the best jukebox in town, which is why we were at that particular bar to begin with. We went out that Sunday and within about 2 hours we had set the date for the wedding. Met in October, married in December, and this New Year's eve marks 25 years and three kids for us.

Our first date was to the state fair and on our 10th anniversary they put a big picture and article about us and the kids on the front page of the paper as advertising for the fair. The other picture on the front page that day was Asleep at the Wheel, so we were in good company.

[Amy Winette]

We met in a bar in Palo Alto, named, appropriately enough, Nola!!

http://www.nolas.com/images/nola.gif

Yep, 6 years ago, no music there, but I believe we went over to F&As after and there was music, right?

[Amy Winette]

Is this question directed towards my current spouse, or the next one? :)

You are lucky your current Mrs. doesn't read the board Mister!! ;)

[ozzie]

We met when I went to work on a remote construction site. 500 blokes and just a couple of gals.... you do the math, I got the pick of the bunch! Just celebrated 20 years.

No music involved, but we both always had a hankering to visit New Orleans even though neither of us even knew anyone who had been there. Took a lot of years before we had the means to go, and now we can't stay away.

[ozzie]

We met in a bar in Palo Alto, named, appropriately enough, Nola!!

http://www.nolas.com/images/nola.gif

That's fate for ya!

[VWGal]

My late husband and I met when we were both members of a very large notorious ski club called the Petroleum Ski Club in Calgary -- he was playing guitar several hours at a stretch on a ski bus bound for Schweitzer Basin, Idaho (Potters will know that one). I was the loudest and most-on-key singer in the unofficial bus choir, so I was told to stand beside the guitar player to help him lead the drunks through a repertoire of rugby, folk and Fogerty songs. He worked for the company I now work for, but the sideline was music, so we were both in bands of little renown together until kids came along.

We didn't meet at Stampede, plastered in a bar, which is the story of 75% of all Calgarians...at least we were on a ski bus, albeit semi-plastered. The "bus band" had to stay sober enough to remember words to songs.

[jolie]

My husband and I worked for the same company 16 years ago. At some point we both became single at the same time and he asked me to go see a concert.. Bryan Adams (kinda funny cause neither of us are huge fans.. just a reason to go out). Our second date was an Eric Clapton concert. Third date Jazz Fest 92. Moved in together shortly after that. A shared love of music and all things "water" have been key for us!:)

[ohio]

We met at the bus stop after school in junior high. Went to different schools at that time. No music involved then, but 10 years later we spent our honeymoon at Fest. And that, will be 25 years ago on the day of Threadhead Patry '09!

[festivalgirl]

We met at the bus stop after school in junior high. Went to different schools at that time. No music involved then, but 10 years later we spent our honeymoon at Fest. And that, will be 25 years ago on the day of Threadhead Patry '09!

This will be the first time we'll be in town for the Patry ...... hopefully we'll get tickets and celebrate with some Silver!!

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[festivalgirl]

We met at the bus stop after school in junior high. Went to different schools at that time. No music involved then, but 10 years later we spent our honeymoon at Fest. And that, will be 25 years ago on the day of Threadhead Patry '09!

This will be the first time we'll be in town for the Patry ...... hopefully we'll get tickets and celebrate with some Silver!!

[Zydekitten]

We met in a bar in Palo Alto, named, appropriately enough, Nola!!

http://www.nolas.com/images/nola.gif
That's a great bar and one of my faves in P.A.! If it'd been there when I still lived in Palo Alto, I might have made it to New Orleans and Jazzfest MUCH sooner!!! :D ;)

[Zydekitten]

I met my better half, sweetie and significant other (yes, wisenheimers - those all describe just one individual) right on dis here Bored!!! :D :D :D :D

[Corona]

We met at the bus stop after school in junior high. Went to different schools at that time. No music involved then, but 10 years later we spent our honeymoon at Fest. And that, will be 25 years ago on the day of Threadhead Patry '09!
:D :D Love all these stories!!!

[Corona]

:D :D Love all these stories!!!
Hmmm....y'all pretty much know mine. Married to someone who didn't like New Orleans and hated going to live music venues. Years of doing stuff on my own. Separated and divorce in process :)

Ed and I have known each other for 15 years and met at Michigan Speedway as our two groups of peeps camped together year after year. He works with my best friend Trish and she always kept us up on what the other was doing. We each harbored a secret crush that we ignored until we got together 7 months ago for a "let's all get together for drinks night out" and the rest is history. He LOVES music and New Orleans and my friends and my family.....soulmate for sure. If we get married.... we know it WILL be in New Orleans :)

[Corona]

I met my better half, sweetie and significant other (yes, wisenheimers - those all describe just one individual) right on dis here Bored!!! :D :D :D :D
So happy for you both Lis!!

[Moon]

Met years earlier at a local bar. 1st date was a Rounder showcase with Steve Riley, Geno Delafose, and Marcia Ball. When I saw how much she enjoyed it I thought, this might work out. That was 13 years ago.

[Michelino]

We were introduced at a bar by a mutual friend somewhere around 28 years ago, Became good friends and stayed just that for five years. Looking back, our first date was probably the night we I asked my friend to come with me and watch an August meteor shower, but we weren't really a couple until about five months later. And then in early 1986, we took a trip to New Orleans and came back soul mates forever. We honeymooned at the Royal Sonesta in 1989. We spent most of the 80s and 90s "discovering" New Orleans music together, even before our first fest in 1994.

[mangoon]

Met my gf almost 11 years ago when she was a bartender at a place I spent allot of time in:) . At the time I started dating a friend of hers who was a bartender at the same place. Ironically I had a crush on her at that time and somehow ended up with the other girl instead because I didnt think she had any interest. Fast forward to 10 years later and we end up going out pretty much by fluke after not seeing each other for about 8 years-got along like peas and carrots and now have a baby on the way. Funny enough she tells me that she had a crush on me 11 years ago and couldn't believe I started going out with the other girl. All I could do was slap my forehead and proclaim the fact that i am a complete dumbass!!!;)

[Belle]

Richard and I met at the Soap Creek Saloon in Austin in 1980 or so. Some girlfiends got together and went to Austin (did that lots) for Jerry Jeff Walker one night and Marcia Ball the other. That was the best whole in wall bar in the 70's and early 80's.

Picked him out of the crowd, bought him a drink, danced, road home with me Sunday and never left.

If my daughter does that I will kill her.

[chrisjoseph]

Carmen and I met in 2000, when I was 43. I had been married ever so briefly in my 20's, and then was single for almost 20 years. Getting married and having kids was not on my mind. I liked being single. At least until all my single friends were married and having families.

At any rate, while not looking, I was at a work seminar....Carmen was one of the speakers. I made a "work excuse" to talk with her afterwards. Then I called her at work the next day, about "work." We started talking about hiking, music, politics. We were really hitting it off.

Then, on one phone conversation, Carmen (who is from Michigan) described how she got out to LA that previous winter (1999). She started using the term "we," and it wasn't her and I. I was sooooooo BUMMED. She had a boyfriend and was living with him. I was like: "oh well." On to something else.

I went on a two-week backpacking trip over the summer of 2000, and basically forgot about her. When I got back, she called me and suggested we should have lunch. That got my eyebrows up.

We had lunch. The rest is history.

[McGregor]

My wife and I were set up by a mutual friend who told her that I loved music (she does also) so it was really the catalyst that got us together....

that and my smooth moves....:D ....NOT! :(

[mdfest]

She worked at the bank next door. Saw her drinking a water on a break. I had never seen her- our offices didnt have windows. Asked her to lunch. She sends 2 coworkers over to interview me and give me a stamp of approval.

Bennigans tried to warn me off by serving me a raw chicken sandwich, but I didnt understand the signal. We exchanged numbers, but she felt I was a little "cocky" so no follow up.

She finally saw the light a few weeks later and calls. We head out to Baltimore for a friends bday party. Some no name blues band was playing. Another date the next night- she hasnt left since- almost 13 years later.

[djgriff]

I had to go to Colorado to meet a girl from Jersey.

I was organizing a trip to Breckenridge in the winter of 2001 and my buddy tells me that there is a new girl in his office who was supposed to go to Jackson Hole but her trip fell through at the last minute - he told her there might be room in our house if she wanted to join in.

She met us in Breckenridge and that was that. We both already had plans to go to Fest in 2001, but on different weekends. She hasn't been back to Fest since because we now have two small boys but I'm sure she'll get back when the kids are a little bigger.

[Mexi]

If my daughter does that I will kill her.

LMAO!!!!
Damn right.

[freebo]

My soul mate and I dated in our junior year at John F. Kennedy high.

Problem though: in June my folks and I moved to Richardson, TX. At that time (1975), it was a sleepy little bedroom community of Dallas. I liken it to leaving Oz to move to Kansas.

We kept in touch for a while, but teenage (male) hormones being what they are, I found a new (local) girlfriend pretty quickly.

Well, everyone in Texas told me that I should check out Austin. It would be a better fit for this freak from New Orleans. So after graduation, I went to The University, where whaddya know? They were right! Austin in 1976 was a magical place, with music and 'unique' people of all kinds everywhere you turned.

I eventually got my bachelor's degree -Best twelve years of my life! -or at least some of the most fun. :p Got married and moved to Florida in 1988. Landed in St. Pete because it most closely resembled my vision of Florida (parks, water, beaches, etc.).

Went through a lot with my first wife, but ultimately we grew apart. By 1996 it was time for my 20th high school reunion. I figured: what the heck, why not check it out? I hadn't been to one yet...

Well, I'm hanging with my podnahs, and who should walk up but my soul mate... That's right: after 20 long years, we met again for the first time.

I won't lie. There were sparks. And even though we were both in a relationship, neither was doing well. For me, the clincher was when my Dad passed away the next month, and my wife (at the time) didn't come to the funeral. The writing was on the wall.

It didn't go smoothly, especially at first. She lived in NOLA, me in FLA. We dated long distance for a couple of years. I got a job there and moved back in 1999. But I didn't like it all that much (be careful what you wish for), and only stayed a year. I moved back and left her in New Orleans. But that didn't last. I knew she was "The One"...

So now she lives here, and we got married in 2002 (on the streetcar #934). We both miss New Orleans a lot, but every day we count our blessings, and the 50 vertical feet between us and sea level. Yeah, it's a tough price to pay, but life is good, and we know that one day we'll move back to our beloved home town (or at least to Metry). :)

Oh, um, music? I LOVE MUSIC. To quote Frank Zappa: "...Music is the best!" But other than the DJ at our HS reunion, I honestly don't remember... She's embraced my love of music, and even developed a little something of her own (I'm so proud!). And I love her for that. :D

[festivalgirl]

What I love about this thread .... we're all using the terms "Best Friend" & "Soul Mate".

We have so many friends who don't seem to like their mates much let alone consider them friends. Steve & I spent a lot of time working opposite shifts and it was miserable. One of our great joys of JF is being with other couples who feel the same way we do.

[okay, done with the soppy stuff ... for now ;)]

[funkkjunkie]

Aw, this thread is so sweet.
Met my husband first day of college. He loved heavy metal. I loved blues.
Next significant other- we came together because of our love of music and cooking. He introduced me to the subdudes.
Next significant other was a musician who worked at a used record store. Law, that was grand. I must've acquired 200 gifted cds over that couple years.
Now there is no significant other but if there ever is one, music will be a big part of the picture.
Hug your mates, yall. You are blessed. :D

[denideadhead]

This thread is just one big AWWWWWW :) OK ...Met the boy sophmore year in High School ....He had just returned to the States after living for three years in the Netherlands and he was so cute, full of attitude and seemed so worldly and I was the wonder of wonder geeks.... some how we became friends but never would he even consider seriously dating me though we did share the occassional kiss and lots of confidences.
I went to Boston and he to New Haven for college. Home for summer I ran into a mutual acquaintance who was trying very hard to hook up with my visiting roommate. Said acquaintance called Buff and then put me on the phone in an effort to entertain me soley so he could spend time with my roommate.....we talked met for a pizza .......been together pretty much ever since ...married for 21 yrs this Nov......we always loved music he turned me onto the Dead and Dylan and more...he is not much for going to shows anymore and these days prefers to live vicariously through my musical adventures....We have had some rough times but still my best friend and we still share kisses and confidences....

[glinda]

Aw, this thread is so sweet. .....
Now there is no significant other but if there ever is one, music will be a big part of the picture.
Hug your mates, yall. You are blessed. :D
Took the words right outta my mouth, funkk.

[Staxsun]

There's no way I can tell all of this right now, since I'm at work and it will take forever. In the beginning I went to the doctor.......

[Delta]

Doctor, doctor, give me the news.....and it goes from there?

[Staxsun]

Doctor, doctor, give me the news.....and it goes from there?

Indeed! The doctor thought I had reflux, but he sent me to the cardiologist just to rule it out. They would call me with a date for the appointment. They called and told me October 22. By that time I was feeling pretty bad, so I decided to spend my fortieth birthday at the heart doctor. I didn't bargain on having a "do not pass go" trip to heart surgery with a triple bypass. More later....

[mamaroux]

No music involved, at least there was no music actually playing.

I had been walking from the parking lot of the college to class with my friend, Lynn. Our conversation was about marriage... I said I never wanted to get married, "what if the right man for me lives in Siberia, and I never meet him? I don't want to marry the wrong guy, so I'm never going to get married." that was my steadfast position on marriage at the time. It was January, and a long, cold walk to the building.

As we turned into the class room, at the very end of the hall, for our Sociology course, I saw this guy... his long, long legs sticking out straight, wrapped in denim with some funky trim at the bottom, British tan leather boots that obviously went up to his knees, crossed at the ankles as he leaned back into the desk chair, a full head of thick, very dark, wavy hair, prominent brown with very full, dark eyebrows and bedroom eyes... and very full lips. Took my breath away, and I whispered 'oh my god' as I gasped, and walked to the very back of the classroom, to take the seat all the way back in the far corner. Lynn wanted to know what was wrong with me and I told her that was the guy I was going to marry! She got pretty pissed off at me and said she saw him first! She didn't get it... i didn't want to get married, I didn't know this guy from Adam, he could have been a mass murderer for all I knew, yet I had this insane feeling that I was somehow going to marry him even if I didn't want to get married!

The professor started putting us in groups of 4. He was going down the aisles, putting one student after another in groups. He got to this guy, then pointed back at me "you there in the corner, you're in this group!" So it was kismet... we started talking, having coffee... I thought he would never stop talking sometimes (hahahaha) yet girls in his engineering classes told me that he was very quite... a year later we went on our first real date, 8 months later we were engaged, a year after that, we were married... On the day of our wedding, just before I was supposed to walk down the aisle, I told my dad I wasn't sure I could do this... his response was "Damn it, I paid for this wedding! You're going through with it!"and had our 34th anniversary in August.


Three kids, on grandbaby later, I'm still not sure I wanted to get married... LOL

[mamaroux]

My soul mate and I dated in our junior year at John F. Kennedy high.

Problem though: in June my folks and I moved to Richardson, TX. At that time (1975), it was a sleepy little bedroom community of Dallas. I liken it to leaving Oz to move to Kansas.

We kept in touch for a while, but teenage (male) hormones being what they are, I found a new (local) girlfriend pretty quickly.

Well, everyone in Texas told me that I should check out Austin. It would be a better fit for this freak from New Orleans. So after graduation, I went to The University, where whaddya know? They were right! Austin in 1976 was a magical place, with music and 'unique' people of all kinds everywhere you turned.

I eventually got my bachelor's degree -Best twelve years of my life! -or at least some of the most fun. :p Got married and moved to Florida in 1988. Landed in St. Pete because it most closely resembled my vision of Florida (parks, water, beaches, etc.).

Went through a lot with my first wife, but ultimately we grew apart. By 1996 it was time for my 20th high school reunion. I figured: what the heck, why not check it out? I hadn't been to one yet...

Well, I'm hanging with my podnahs, and who should walk up but my soul mate... That's right: after 20 long years, we met again for the first time.

I won't lie. There were sparks. And even though we were both in a relationship, neither was doing well. For me, the clincher was when my Dad passed away the next month, and my wife (at the time) didn't come to the funeral. The writing was on the wall.

It didn't go smoothly, especially at first. She lived in NOLA, me in FLA. We dated long distance for a couple of years. I got a job there and moved back in 1999. But I didn't like it all that much (be careful what you wish for), and only stayed a year. I moved back and left her in New Orleans. But that didn't last. I knew she was "The One"...

So now she lives here, and we got married in 2002 (on the streetcar #934). We both miss New Orleans a lot, but every day we count our blessings, and the 50 vertical feet between us and sea level. Yeah, it's a tough price to pay, but life is good, and we know that one day we'll move back to our beloved home town (or at least to Metry). :)

Oh, um, music? I LOVE MUSIC. To quote Frank Zappa: "...Music is the best!" But other than the DJ at our HS reunion, I honestly don't remember... She's embraced my love of music, and even developed a little something of her own (I'm so proud!). And I love her for that. :D

Here I thought you two just married each other for that VW!

[mamaroux]

that will have to be a wedding at the Gospel Tent. Or at the Patry.

One I sure don't want to miss!!!

[mamaroux]

We met at the bus stop after school in junior high. Went to different schools at that time. No music involved then, but 10 years later we spent our honeymoon at Fest. And that, will be 25 years ago on the day of Threadhead Patry '09!

Utoh... sounds like another exchange of vowels need to happen!! Maybe Byron will lend you his mouse ears Top Hat!

[mamaroux]

I met my better half, sweetie and significant other (yes, wisenheimers - those all describe just one individual) right on dis here Bored!!! :D :D :D :D

... and might I add, what excellent taste you have in better halves, sweeties and significant others, Zkitty!

[mamaroux]

Hmmm....y'all pretty much know mine. Married to someone who didn't like New Orleans and hated going to live music venues. Years of doing stuff on my own. Separated and divorce in process :)

Ed and I have known each other for 15 years and met at Michigan Speedway as our two groups of peeps camped together year after year. He works with my best friend Trish and she always kept us up on what the other was doing. We each harbored a secret crush that we ignored until we got together 7 months ago for a "let's all get together for drinks night out" and the rest is history. He LOVES music and New Orleans and my friends and my family.....soulmate for sure. If we get married.... we know it WILL be in New Orleans :)

well, it took ya long enough!! About time you two got together! (I'm pretty fond of that Eddie, can you tell?)

[mamaroux]

If my daughter does that I will kill her.

:eek: ROFLMAO!!! That's a real hoot!

[mamaroux]

I had to go to Colorado to meet a girl from Jersey.

I was organizing a trip to Breckenridge in the winter of 2001 and my buddy tells me that there is a new girl in his office who was supposed to go to Jackson Hole but her trip fell through at the last minute - he told her there might be room in our house if she wanted to join in.

She met us in Breckenridge and that was that. We both already had plans to go to Fest in 2001, but on different weekends. She hasn't been back to Fest since because we now have two small boys but I'm sure she'll get back when the kids are a little bigger.

OH I had forgotten that Kat worked with Paulie!! I knew he introduced ya, but somehow the rest of it escaped my brain...

[mamaroux]

What I love about this thread .... we're all using the terms "Best Friend" & "Soul Mate".

We have so many friends who don't seem to like their mates much let alone consider them friends. Steve & I spent a lot of time working opposite shifts and it was miserable. One of our great joys of JF is being with other couples who feel the same way we do.

[okay, done with the soppy stuff ... for now ;)]

oh goodness... if you don't marry someone who you can consider one of your best friends, someone who you can laugh with and actually LIKE, then there is something very wrong.

[festivalgirl]

oh goodness... if you don't marry someone who you can consider one of your best friends, someone who you can laugh with and actually LIKE, then there is something very wrong.

we still wake up n the middle of the night, look at each other, chuckle & fall back to sleep.

i also thought i'd never get married. i can't believe i found someone who puts up with me!! [but, then again, i put up with him too :)]

[festivalgirl]

... and might I add, what excellent taste you have in better halves, sweeties and significant others, Zkitty!

so, have we had a threadhead wedding yet??? [in my best yenta voice ;)]

[Orleansnj]

Eric and I met one night in college when they had free midnight movies on campus, completely by accident. I was told by a group of friends I was going to the movie - it was teenage mutant ninja turtles - you get my resistance. A whole crowd of us pile into the theater and suffered through the flick. On the way out, the guy who thought I was going to date him (and remains a very good friend to this day) decided he needed to sleep - he left. Eric and a whole group of us piled into his car and went bar hopping. We ended up at a bar on Magazine street that was called AT's at that time. They were playing some horrid, horrid, horrid music. We all decided to leave. My friends left, Eric asked if I was tired and said 'let's hang out'.....we went back to his place to listen to music and then drive around the city. Well, by 7 am the sun was coming up on the levee and it was time for this princess to get some sleep. Eric had a review session at the Business School on campus the next morning - and I told him he could crash in my dorm room on the floor. He declined. (imagine! why didn't the floor seem appealing - and what in the HELL was I thinking - the floor?!?!?!?!).

He only knew my first name and the dorm I lived in on campus. He went through the college phone book for a few days before he found my phone number.....(he still jokes that it is a damned good thing my last name began with C - otherwise who knows). Our first official date was at Mandina's on Canal Street..... a little over 18 years ago. (yikes !). we moved in together within a few months. We'll be 'officially' married 8 years in a few months. He proposed at Jazz Fest in 1999..... (I had a thing, I didn't want to entertain the discussion of marriage until I was at least 30). We would have been married right then, but Louisiana had rules about getting a marriage license etc. And our parents would have had the canary of the century.... LOL.

[mamaroux]

we still wake up n the middle of the night, look at each other, chuckle & fall back to sleep.

i also thought i'd never get married. i can't believe i found someone who puts up with me!! [but, then again, i put up with him too :)]

LOL, yeah, we be in the same boat, kiddo! :) I also like that we give each other space. He can do want he wants, I can do want I want, and we invite each other to come along. I love baseball, he doesn't... so i go with other people. He likes racing, I don't... he's gone with other friends. I've gone to New Orleans many times when he couldn't go, and I've told him to go out with friends when we're there and I'm not up to it... and vice versa. We both know who we come home to...

[festivalgirl]

Paul Newman/Joanne Woodward story ....

He and his wife were reputed to have one of the happiest marriages in Hollywood, but the outspoken Joanne Woodward admitted that it took a lot of therapy to cope with the fact that, even though she got an Oscar first, he was able to stay a leading man for four decades. She told a magazine that she was always “uncomfortable and even angry” that “Paul was so much bigger than I was ... Because he was living my fantasy” to be a star.

She would not talk to me for The Times’s profile that her husband did to promote “The Color of Money” — even just on the topic of his role as the director of five movies that she had starred in. She said she did interviews only solo or jointly with him — not about him. That byzantine deal reflected the rivalry that threaded through their romance.

He said that he appreciated her, as he looked around his elegant Fifth Avenue apartment, observing dryly: “If anyone had ever told me 20 years ago I’d be sitting in a room with peach walls, I would have told them to take a nap in a urinal.”

[denideadhead]

well, it took ya long enough!! About time you two got together! (I'm pretty fond of that Eddie, can you tell?)
I second that emotion :)

[Amy Winette]

I met my better half, sweetie and significant other (yes, wisenheimers - those all describe just one individual) right on dis here Bored!!!

I love it Kitten :) You n Frank are great peeps :)

[Amy Winette]

I had to go to Colorado to meet a girl from Jersey.

I was organizing a trip to Breckenridge in the winter of 2001 and my buddy tells me that there is a new girl in his office who was supposed to go to Jackson Hole but her trip fell through at the last minute - he told her there might be room in our house if she wanted to join in.

She met us in Breckenridge and that was that. We both already had plans to go to Fest in 2001, but on different weekends. She hasn't been back to Fest since because we now have two small boys but I'm sure she'll get back when the kids are a little bigger.

Since your gal had to give up her trip to Jackson Hole to meet you, maybe you guys need to come out here sometime -- we've got plenty of places you can stay :)

[Amy Winette]

Forgot to quote, but I don't know that we've had a threadhead to threadhead wedding yet, I'm sure there will be one in the future!! We did, however, have a beautiful Festngators renewal of vows patry before last :)

[ohio]

Utoh... sounds like another exchange of vowels need to happen!! Maybe Byron will lend you his mouse ears Top Hat!
Oh no, no re-mooing the vowels. Our love has been a consonant! I think we'll have a heroin & everclear after-patry. kidding...

[festivalgirl]

Oh no, no re-mooing the vowels. Our love has been a consonant! I think we'll have a heroin & everclear after-patry. kidding...

it's silver, right........

http://thumbnail.image.rakuten.co.jp/@0_mall/loj/cabinet/patron/patron-silver.jpg

[ohio]

it's silver, right........

http://thumbnail.image.rakuten.co.jp/@0_mall/loj/cabinet/patron/patron-silver.jpg
ok, heroin & silver after-patry...

[festivalgirl]

ok, heroin & silver after-patry...

gotta stick with tradition ......

[festivalgirl]

here's the gift list:

http://www.happy-anniversary.com/year-of-marriage/index.html

Woo Hoo .... 15 years for us on the 15th - GLASS!!!!!!

[tabasco]

This one is not to be shared with parents or children. ;) lol :D

Met Mrs. Tabasco in a Strip Mall parking lot while trying to score some alcohol at the local liquor store...I was 19 she was 16 and was with her step sister who was dating a friend of mine who had a fake id! WAHOO! Beer & whiskey on a friday night!
We all took off together to drink, up in the mountains on someones property who we didn't know!? But it had a great view of the Jersey burbs. Polished off a pint of Jim Beam. Then soon after.... was our first kiss. Got back in the car "i wasn't driving!" somehow ended up at a golf course!? Just imagine 5 drunk kids wandering around a closed golf course around midnight! I can still remember how bright the moon was! What a night! I was hanging with the coolest chick ever! After the golf course we ended up at her stepsisters house for some more best night ever stuff.
I made it home somehow??? The next morning we found some souvenirs from the golf course in the back of my friends car!!!? :eek: Yardage markers and a flag! If her parents ever found out about that night????? OH MY! I dont even want to think about that one!

Well even though we were under the influence that night, a few weeks later & a few more "non drunken dates". I did find out that she was the coolest chick ever and have been together since!
21 years and counting.:D

[Amyloves...]

This is a cool thread. I don't even remember meeting Jimmy actually because we grew up in the same neighborhood so I kind of always knew him. He's four years older than I, which is huge when you're kids, so we never hung out. Then in high school during one of my wild years, he and one of his friends got me out of a very bad situation one night and I guess the bond was formed and we were friends after that. Fast forward some years and he's unhappily married and I'm stupidly engaged (both too young) and we all kind of hang with the same crowd. I finally come to my senses and realize the fiancee makes me miserable and end that, and right around the same time he bails on the bad marriage. We commiserate with each other through all that drama. What was funny was that part of the inspiration for getting out of my relationship was cause I saw he was miserable and it made me think hard about what I was doing...and part of his inspiration was seeing me go through with the difficult breakup b/c he realized he should have done the same but didn't have the courage. I decided I'd never get married...yeah right. Sparks fly. Fast forward and three kids later we had our 20th anni last month!

[Staxsun]

Indeed! The doctor thought I had reflux, but he sent me to the cardiologist just to rule it out. They would call me with a date for the appointment. They called and told me October 22. By that time I was feeling pretty bad, so I decided to spend my fortieth birthday at the heart doctor. I didn't bargain on having a "do not pass go" trip to heart surgery with a triple bypass. More later....

There's a lot to this story, but the doc on call discharged me at 4 AM on a Sunday. Luckily, they let me hang around until late in the day. A nurse from the Cardiac Wellness center came by and gave me some education and suggested I talk to the doctor about cardiac rehab.

I ended up at rehab (no, no, no), and was helped by several nurses and exercise physiologists. After I graduated, I joined the center, working out several times a week. The saga continues in the next episode.......

[jerseygirl67]

This one is not to be shared with parents or children. ;) lol :D

Met Mrs. Tabasco in a Strip Mall parking lot while trying to score some alcohol at the local liquor store...I was 19 she was 16 and was with her step sister who was dating a friend of mine who had a fake id! WAHOO! Beer & whiskey on a friday night!
We all took off together to drink, up in the mountains on someones property who we didn't know!? But it had a great view of the Jersey burbs. Polished off a pint of Jim Beam. Then soon after.... was our first kiss. Got back in the car "i wasn't driving!" somehow ended up at a golf course!? Just imagine 5 drunk kids wandering around a closed golf course around midnight! I can still remember how bright the moon was! What a night! I was hanging with the coolest chick ever! After the golf course we ended up at her stepsisters house for some more best night ever stuff.
I made it home somehow??? The next morning we found some souvenirs from the golf course in the back of my friends car!!!? :eek: Yardage markers and a flag! If her parents ever found out about that night????? OH MY! I dont even want to think about that one!

Well even though we were under the influence that night, a few weeks later & a few more "non drunken dates". I did find out that she was the coolest chick ever and have been together since!
21 years and counting.:D

OK, what mountains and what golf course???? South Mountain or Watchung? LOL

It's too soon to tell my little story...only 3 months...when we get to 6 or 9 (right about Fest time) I'll share! But I love these stories y'all. So sweet (and funny!)

[chicago_bones]

I met my wife Linda at a Cajun dance in June 1995 at The Bop Shop in Chicago. I had taken a friend and fellow Jazzfester there to celebrate her birthday and my future wife asked me to dance. Before the night was over, I gave her my phone number and told her to call me if she wanted to go out dancing. A few weeks later we arranged to meet at Fitzgeralds for the American Music Festival and danced to Geno Delafose, Stee Riley, and Marcia Ball. Our next date included dancing to Boozoo at a street festival. Needless to say, we've been jazzfesting ever since then (including our honeymoon) and still dancing.

[ohio]

gotta stick with tradition ......
;)

[Staxsun]

There's a lot to this story, but the doc on call discharged me at 4 AM on a Sunday. Luckily, they let me hang around until late in the day. A nurse from the Cardiac Wellness center came by and gave me some education and suggested I talk to the doctor about cardiac rehab.

I ended up at rehab (no, no, no), and was helped by several nurses and exercise physiologists. After I graduated, I joined the center, working out several times a week. The saga continues in the next episode.......

So they asked me after I'd been there a while what kind of exercise I liked other than treadmills, etc. I told them that I loved to play tennis although it had been a long time. Eileen told me that after I was six months post surgical she would get me out on the tennis court. I assumed she was just being nice. So eventually it happened that we played tennis a few times as friends. Football season rolled around, and she knew I had season tickets, so she invited herself out with me to a game. We progressed from there. It took about four years for me to get her to marry me, though.

[Jay Fest]

Music was not involved when I met my wife in the dining hall of our grad school dorm at the University of Chicago in the fall of 1972, but I was encouraged when she went with me a few weeks later to see the on-campus showing of the movie "200 Motels". When she went with me to see Captain Beefheart, I knew she was in love.

There is no way in hell she would ever go with me to hear that kind of music now. Hell, I can't even get her to come to Jazzfest (we did visit NOLA for a couple of days in November a few years ago). But we had our 35th anniversary this year, so I suppose that is promising!

[jonnygospeltent]

Hey Jay,was that when the Captain opened up for Sailcat at the Aragon?

[Zydekitten]

... and might I add, what excellent taste you have in better halves, sweeties and significant others, Zkitty!
Awww, thanks Mama!!! :o I think I do too - I don't deserve him by half and I must have done something good sometime to be so lucky as to have him in my life! :)

[Zydekitten]

so, have we had a threadhead wedding yet??? [in my best yenta voice ;)]
Well . . . WE haven't. And I don't anyone else has to date.

[Chicago Fest Fan]

Was there music involved?
I met the lovely wife 30 years ago this week at 98 cent pitcher night at The Thirsty Whale. The band playing was called Punch and they were really good.

Johnny I love that you and your wife met at the Thirsty Whale. I spent some time there myself and was sorry to see it turn into a McDonalds.
I bet if it was a 98 cent pitcher night it was sponsored by the Loop.

[ozzie]

here's the gift list:

http://www.happy-anniversary.com/year-of-marriage/index.html

Woo Hoo .... 15 years for us on the 15th - GLASS!!!!!!

Chrissa adds a trip to RT's gallery to the itinerary

[ozzie]

ok, heroin & silver after-patry...

Ohio adds a trip to [I have no idea] to the itinerary

[ozzie]

Johnny I love that you and your wife met at the Thirsty Whale. I spent some time there myself and was sorry to see it turn into a McDonalds.
I bet if it was a 98 cent pitcher night it was sponsored by the Loop.

Chicago Fest Fan crosses Maccas off the itinerary

[ozzie]

Well . . . WE haven't. And I don't anyone else has to date.

Kitten adds an ozzie to the flower girl list

[ozzie]

This one is not to be shared with parents or children. ;) lol :D

Just imagine 5 drunk kids wandering around a closed golf course around midnight! I can still remember how bright the moon was! What a night! I was hanging with the coolest chick ever!

Tabasco adds a twilight golf game to the itinerary. Hey, that sounds like fun and I don't even play.... golf.

[ozzie]

So they asked me after I'd been there a while what kind of exercise I liked other than treadmills, etc. I told them that I loved to play tennis although it had been a long time. Eileen told me that after I was six months post surgical she would get me out on the tennis court. I assumed she was just being nice. So eventually it happened that we played tennis a few times as friends. Football season rolled around, and she knew I had season tickets, so she invited herself out with me to a game. We progressed from there. It took about four years for me to get her to marry me, though.

Well, you know what they say... a couple that plays post surgical tennis together, stays together!

[ozzie]

Don't mean to hijack the thread... love these love stories. [sigh]

[ozzie]

My soul mate and I dated in our junior year at John F. Kennedy high.
So now she lives here, and we got married in 2002 (on the streetcar #934). We both miss New Orleans a lot, but every day we count our blessings, and the 50 vertical feet between us and sea level. Yeah, it's a tough price to pay, but life is good, and we know that one day we'll move back to our beloved home town (or at least to Metry). :)

Awww... very good things come to those who wait.

[ozzie]

What I love about this thread .... we're all using the terms "Best Friend" & "Soul Mate".

We have so many friends who don't seem to like their mates much let alone consider them friends. Steve & I spent a lot of time working opposite shifts and it was miserable. One of our great joys of JF is being with other couples who feel the same way we do.

[okay, done with the soppy stuff ... for now ;)]


I reckon the world would be a far better place if we were all a bit more soppy. Would mean we all cared a bit more.

[ozzie]

Aw, this thread is so sweet.
Met my husband first day of college. He loved heavy metal. I loved blues.
Next significant other- we came together because of our love of music and cooking. He introduced me to the subdudes.
Next significant other was a musician who worked at a used record store. Law, that was grand. I must've acquired 200 gifted cds over that couple years.
Now there is no significant other but if there ever is one, music will be a big part of the picture.
Hug your mates, yall. You are blessed. :D

YYR Funkky... we are blessed. :)

Checking out your 'list' it would seem Festy Dave would be the next natural progression! Oh, I recall him talking about his kid... maybe he has a brother.

[ozzie]

My late husband and I met when we were both members of a very large notorious ski club called the Petroleum Ski Club in Calgary -- he was playing guitar several hours at a stretch on a ski bus bound for Schweitzer Basin, Idaho (Potters will know that one). I was the loudest and most-on-key singer in the unofficial bus choir, so I was told to stand beside the guitar player to help him lead the drunks through a repertoire of rugby, folk and Fogerty songs. He worked for the company I now work for, but the sideline was music, so we were both in bands of little renown together until kids came along.

We didn't meet at Stampede, plastered in a bar, which is the story of 75% of all Calgarians...at least we were on a ski bus, albeit semi-plastered. The "bus band" had to stay sober enough to remember words to songs.

I'm so glad you got to have an aussie adventure together too. :)

[ozzie]

Hebjamn & I met online and there was no music involved. (There was trivia involved.) But I did make him go to Jazz Fest before I married him. ;)

You two are the poster kids for online dating. Do ya reckon the universe would have brought you crashing into each other if you hadn't met the techno way? I like to think so, but I guess fate needs a kick up the ass sometimes.

[ozzie]

Hmmm....y'all pretty much know mine. Married to someone who didn't like New Orleans and hated going to live music venues. Years of doing stuff on my own. Separated and divorce in process :)

Ed and I have known each other for 15 years and met at Michigan Speedway as our two groups of peeps camped together year after year. He works with my best friend Trish and she always kept us up on what the other was doing. We each harbored a secret crush that we ignored until we got together 7 months ago for a "let's all get together for drinks night out" and the rest is history. He LOVES music and New Orleans and my friends and my family.....soulmate for sure. If we get married.... we know it WILL be in New Orleans :)

When yer selecting flower girls just remember that Sammy and me are like twins... we will do you proud!

As if you needed convincing, I'm just saying...

http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q273/oldozzie/BridesmaidTanya-1.jpg

[ozzie]

Okay, I'm done. Can you tell that Kenny's away?

[ibjamn]

You two are the poster kids for online dating. Do ya reckon the universe would have brought you crashing into each other if you hadn't met the techno way? I like to think so, but I guess fate needs a kick up the ass sometimes.

I think about that sometimes. I was 46 when we met and had no plans to ever get married, him either, although he was only 36. He was in Boston, I was here hanging out with a lesbian dart team. It is unlikely we would have ever met. ;)

[ozzie]

I think about that sometimes. I was 46 when we met and had no plans to ever get married, him either, although he was only 36. He was in Boston, I was here hanging out with a lesbian dart team. It is unlikely we would have ever met. ;)

Lesbian dart team.... dayum, guess we'll have to wait for the book to hear about that adventure!

[marignygreg]

Met Mrs. MarignyGregg ( Stacey ) at Marie's Riptide Lounge on Armitage, here in Chicago back in 92. Its 5:00 am closing time attracted alot of Chicagos more adventurous Bar flies, including members of Smashing Pumpkins, Urge Overkill, Liz Phair and so on. I wrote a song about it...

I found love in a Bucktown bar
standin by the jukebox, looking like a superstar
the cieling above her, the stars beneath her
she's like an angel, playing my favorite song.

[ibjamn]

Lesbian dart team.... dayum, guess we'll have to wait for the book to hear about that adventure!

Ask to see the tatoo at Festgiving. ;)

[ozzie]

Met Mrs. MarignyGregg ( Stacey ) at Marie's Riptide Lounge on Armitage, here in Chicago back in 92. Its 5:00 am closing time attracted alot of Chicagos more adventurous Bar flies, including members of Smashing Pumpkins, Urge Overkill, Liz Phair and so on. I wrote a song about it...

I found love in an uptown bar
standin by the jukebox, looking like a superstar
the cieling above her, the stars beneath her
she's like an angel, playing my favorite song.

STOP IT.... I'm mooshy enuff already. :)

[ozzie]

Ask to see the tatoo at Festgiving. ;)

Did you say Festgiving? Allllright... book me in for a showing!

[ciscokid]

Ask to see the tatoo at Festgiving. ;)

making a note........

[Jay Fest]

Hey Jay,was that when the Captain opened up for Sailcat at the Aragon?

It's possible, I suppose. The show was sometime in the first seven months of 1973 in the Chicago area. The Beefheart website used to point to a German site that had a list of all his shows, but that list is gone. If the other band was Sailcat, it wouldn't surprise me one bit if I had no memory of those one-hit wonders (as opposed to CB, of course, who was a no-hit wonder), but the idea that I saw Sailcat sounds vaguely, vaguely familiar in the dark recesses of my mind. And I'm impressed at how the f*** YOU can possibly have remembered that.

[drdennis]

good stories, guys! here's mine:
i've been seeing someone for about 6 weeks now (my longest non-dysfunctional relationship in years). i first met bridgette 3 years ago when she brought her dog in for an exam. this summer, i hired bridge to give me piano lessons ...and after a couple of sessions we started hanging out. i no longer pay for my lessons ...but i still can't play, even though i see my "teacher" almost every day. we both broke our own rules about never dating a client. two wrongs make a right ...right?

[Zydekitten]

Kitten adds an ozzie to the flower girl list
Abso-effin-loutely, baby!!! :D

[Orleansnj]

Ohio adds a trip to [I have no idea] to the itinerary

betty ford clinic?

only kidding ;) :D

[Orleansnj]

Abso-effin-loutely, baby!!! :D

and orleansnj too !!!!!!

[Zydekitten]

and orleansnj too !!!!!!
Well . . . naturally, darlin!!! :)

[festbabe]

good stories, guys! here's mine:
i've been seeing someone for about 6 weeks now (my longest non-dysfunctional relationship in years). i first met bridgette 3 years ago when she brought her dog in for an exam. this summer, i hired bridge to give me piano lessons ...and after a couple of sessions we started hanging out. i no longer pay for my lessons ...but i still can't play, even though i see my "teacher" almost every day. we both broke our own rules about never dating a client. two wrongs make a right ...right?

I'm not sure if two wrongs make a right, but it's usually a ton of fun!

[festivalgirl]

Abso-effin-loutely, baby!!! :D

Only wedding party I've ever been in was my own. :)

I always get the job of keeping the "problem" guest or relative happy. Usually involves the bar!!

[funkkjunkie]

If you go all the way back to the old jazzfest boreds that preceded this one, we do have a few couples who met through the bored.
Maggalicious saw her hubby, who was from nola, at a crawfish boil during fest one year. An entire year later, their paths crossed again at fest and the rest is history. The next year: a fest wedding at the blues stage. maggie is part of petdekat krewe.
The year maggie saw her hubby for the first time, she brought a friend with her to fest. I'm sorry some names escape me. Guess that's not a surprise. ;) Anyway her friend met george of virginia of petdekat and they were married within the year. They have since gone their separate ways.
And then there is stevemiami and daphne. they met on the petdekat bored years ago and are celebrating unwedded bliss, as nymama likes to say.
Where yat, Steve?!

[LisaRI]

What a fun thread! I met Joe's brother at a late night after-hours jam at the Cajun & Bluegrass festival in Escoheag, RI, Labor Day weekend 1991. I had an old busted up accordion and he was playing fiddle. Then about a week later, I bumped into the 2 brothers at a record store. I was going to redeem a coupon from the Cajun festival program, but they had beat me to it, cleaned out all the good stuff! In the months that followed I saw them around town, and we hung out at bluegrass jams, Cajun dances and other shows around the area. "Zydeco Joe" taught me how to dance to Steve Riley. But our first "date" was a bluegrass fest at Strawberry Park in the spring of 1992, married in '94, and we have been festing and dancing ever since.

[jonnygospeltent]

I'm not sure if two wrongs make a right, but it's usually a ton of fun!

2 wrongs don't make a right but 2 wrights make an airplane,

[saturn]

I advertised for him in the newspaper.

He says he read the ad and thought "This woman wants to meet ME."

[festivalgirl]

I advertised for him in the newspaper.

He says he read the ad and thought "This woman wants to meet ME."

And he was right!!!! :)

[NeenAtlanta]

After graduating college, I wasn't ready yet for the "real" world, so I stayed on campus working in the student activities dept.

A friend of mine was a singer, and I needed to hire a band for an event, so I hired her band. They had this really tall, quiet bass player. I didn't really warm up to him right away. He was older and I was a bit intimidated.

But he was persistent and kept asking me out for many weeks. Finally one of my male roomates said "Give the guy a break - go out on a date with him". So I did.

That first date, everything turned upside down and I was smitten. Our first kiss that night, gave us both an amazing almost electrical shock.

That was back in 1982 - been happily with the love of my life ever since.

[DenverDestinDarlin']

There's hope for me yet.
Now if I could just meet some while in Nola thru Nov...

If you go all the way back to the old jazzfest boreds that preceded this one, we do have a few couples who met through the bored.
Maggalicious saw her hubby, who was from nola, at a crawfish boil during fest one year. An entire year later, their paths crossed again at fest and the rest is history. The next year: a fest wedding at the blues stage. maggie is part of petdekat krewe.
The year maggie saw her hubby for the first time, she brought a friend with her to fest. I'm sorry some names escape me. Guess that's not a surprise. ;) Anyway her friend met george of virginia of petdekat and they were married within the year. They have since gone their separate ways.
And then there is stevemiami and daphne. they met on the petdekat bored years ago and are celebrating unwedded bliss, as nymama likes to say.
Where yat, Steve?!

[chicagomike]

I first met my girlfriend Erica in 1992. She was 18 and going out with a buddy of mine. I always thought she was cute. I was in a long term relationship back then. A bunch of us would go to Grateful Dead shows as friends and would always have fun. The years rolled on and we sort of lost touch. I would run into her here and there and it was always good to see her. I ran into her at the Dead show in Joliet Illinois in 2003 and in 2004, 4 of us decided to go to Bonnaroo. It was quite an adventure. We almost got heat stroke and then got poured on... It really came down. Walking back to and I mean wayyyy back to our campsite, it was tough. Really really dark and super muddy. She hung in there, She put up with more then most would that weekend, but we still had a lot of fun. I didnt see her at all in 2005 but in 2006 I got an e-mail from her saying she was sorry she missed my 40th birthday party. We started talking a lot and I took her to a Drive-By Truckers/Robert Randolph/Black Crowes show here in Chicago. We started hanging out more. Nothing romantic. I had been successfully avoiding serious relationships for quite a few years already. So 2007 comes along. She decided to head down to New Orleans with me for week 1 of Jazzfest. We left as friends. We fell in love in New Orleans. Crazy in love. We figured out it was kind of bubbling under the surface for years and we didnt even realize it. She actually said "What took you so long" ? Our good friend Monica AKA Pokerchick can attest to our madness that weekend. She even decided to stay an extra day and got to got to go to Tips for IAC. She took the train back north and the people at the train station could tell how much in love we were. I hadn't felt like that for a very long time. So here we are a year and half later, getting ready to make out third trip to New Orleans together... A place that is full of magic but will always be such a special place for us a couple.

[jonnygospeltent]

I first met my girlfriend Erica in 1992. She was 18 and going out with a buddy of mine. I always thought she was cute. I was in a long term relationship back then. A bunch of us would go to Grateful Dead shows as friends and would always have fun. The years rolled on and we sort of lost touch. I would run into her here and there and it was always good to see her. I ran into her at the Dead show in Joliet Illinois in 2003 and in 2004, 4 of us decided to go to Bonnaroo. It was quite an adventure. We almost got heat stroke and then got poured on... It really came down. Walking back to and I mean wayyyy back to our campsite, it was tough. Really really dark and super muddy. She hung in there, She put up with more then most would that weekend, but we still had a lot of fun. I didnt see her at all in 2005 but in 2006 I got an e-mail from her saying she was sorry she missed my 40th birthday party. We started talking a lot and I took her to a Drive-By Truckers/Robert Randolph/Black Crowes show here in Chicago. We started hanging out more. Nothing romantic. I had been successfully avoiding serious relationships for quite a few years already. So 2007 comes along. She decided to head down to New Orleans with me for week 1 of Jazzfest. We left as friends. We fell in love in New Orleans. Crazy in love. We figured out it was kind of bubbling under the surface for years and we didnt even realize it. She actually said "What took you so long" ? Our good friend Monica AKA Pokerchick can attest to our madness that weekend. She even decided to stay an extra day and got to got to go to Tips for IAC. She took the train back north and the people at the train station could tell how much in love we were. I hadn't felt like that for a very long time. So here we are a year and half later, getting ready to make out third trip to New Orleans together... A place that is full of magic but will always be such a special place for us a couple.

Hey Mike ,
My dancing friend from work Mary,went on and on about how pretty Erica was and how much in love you guys appeared last time we ran into you. I am the least observant guy and didn't notice that untill she mentioned that.

[mamaroux]

Awww, thanks Mama!!! :o I think I do too - I don't deserve him by half and I must have done something good sometime to be so lucky as to have him in my life! :)

it's us redheads... we have good taste in men :) That Patti Scialfa sure did luck out, too... Hey, she got Bruce to write that red headed woman song about us!

[mamaroux]

Don't mean to hijack the thread... love these love stories. [sigh]

you're cracking me up!!! :p

[mamaroux]

Did you say Festgiving? Allllright... book me in for a showing!

take a photo so we can all see it... hehehehehehe

[mamaroux]

good stories, guys! here's mine:
i've been seeing someone for about 6 weeks now (my longest non-dysfunctional relationship in years). i first met bridgette 3 years ago when she brought her dog in for an exam. this summer, i hired bridge to give me piano lessons ...and after a couple of sessions we started hanging out. i no longer pay for my lessons ...but i still can't play, even though i see my "teacher" almost every day. we both broke our own rules about never dating a client. two wrongs make a right ...right?

I don't know if that's true, but rules are meant to be broken, and if you've both broken 'em, that's got to be a good thing! :)

[mamaroux]

and orleansnj too !!!!!!

Me, TOOOOOO!!!!!

[mamaroux]

Only wedding party I've ever been in was my own. :)

I always get the job of keeping the "problem" guest or relative happy. Usually involves the bar!!

That sounds like a lot of fun, Heather! Bars=fun, right?

[mamaroux]

If you go all the way back to the old jazzfest boreds that preceded this one, we do have a few couples who met through the bored.
Maggalicious saw her hubby, who was from nola, at a crawfish boil during fest one year. An entire year later, their paths crossed again at fest and the rest is history. The next year: a fest wedding at the blues stage. maggie is part of petdekat krewe.
The year maggie saw her hubby for the first time, she brought a friend with her to fest. I'm sorry some names escape me. Guess that's not a surprise. ;) Anyway her friend met george of virginia of petdekat and they were married within the year. They have since gone their separate ways.
And then there is stevemiami and daphne. they met on the petdekat bored years ago and are celebrating unwedded bliss, as nymama likes to say.
Where yat, Steve?!

George didn't make it very long, poor guy...

[mamaroux]

What a fun thread! I met Joe's brother at a late night after-hours jam at the Cajun & Bluegrass festival in Escoheag, RI, Labor Day weekend 1991. I had an old busted up accordion and he was playing fiddle. Then about a week later, I bumped into the 2 brothers at a record store. I was going to redeem a coupon from the Cajun festival program, but they had beat me to it, cleaned out all the good stuff! In the months that followed I saw them around town, and we hung out at bluegrass jams, Cajun dances and other shows around the area. "Zydeco Joe" taught me how to dance to Steve Riley. But our first "date" was a bluegrass fest at Strawberry Park in the spring of 1992, married in '94, and we have been festing and dancing ever since.

Can't believe I never heard that story, Lis! It's a good one, too! You two will be dancing and laughing through eternity, I have no doubt!

[mamaroux]

I advertised for him in the newspaper.

He says he read the ad and thought "This woman wants to meet ME."

Glad you did that, and glad he read it, baybee!!! :)

[mamaroux]

After graduating college, I wasn't ready yet for the "real" world, so I stayed on campus working in the student activities dept.

A friend of mine was a singer, and I needed to hire a band for an event, so I hired her band. They had this really tall, quiet bass player. I didn't really warm up to him right away. He was older and I was a bit intimidated.

But he was persistent and kept asking me out for many weeks. Finally one of my male roomates said "Give the guy a break - go out on a date with him". So I did.

That first date, everything turned upside down and I was smitten. Our first kiss that night, gave us both an amazing almost electrical shock.

That was back in 1982 - been happily with the love of my life ever since.

Can't imagine why... <giggle>

[funkkjunkie]

But last we talked, admittedly long ago, George had a new love and was quite content. :D

[mamaroux]

But last we talked, admittedly long ago, George had a new love and was quite content. :D

Glad to hear that! Poor guy went through the wringer for a while.

[mendelj2]

I met mendelj3 when we were both waiting tabes at a sports bar in boston... there's something about the smell of wings frying and potato skins that just brings out the love! Our first show together was a free smashmouth concert in the pouring rain... and the first time I went to New Orleans after we met she was, ummmm, not happy.

Almost ten happy years later she books tickets for the next fest two days after we get home, we eat crawfish monica and etoufee and stalk galactic, susan tedeschi, the allmans, and derek trucks.

Who says evolution doesn't exist???

[NYMAMA]

I met BB through mutula friends 25 years ago and wasn't very impressed( I thougth he was too neat) well after 3 years of friendship something changed Bud says I propositioned him(yeah I don't think so, but it might have happened;) ). We have celebrated 22 years of unwedded bliss and going strong.