The Tangrens

It was way back in July that we heard about it. "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" in concert. They had a "float"(aka flat bed trailer with bales of hay and costumed people tossing tiny amounts of candy) in our local Steel Days parade. It sounded interesting and what was better is that it was going to be playing at our favorite park, the American Fork Amphitheater park. They passed out cards with all the information about it complete with a website to go to and we were very impressed and decided that we would go and make it a Halloween tradition. By the time October rolled around we'd all but forgotten it and on the 11th Hyrum and I walked up to the temple on our walk and we saw a sign for it. We walked over to the amphitheater park to look at preparations and it looked pretty cool.

That night we decided to bundle Hyrum up and go.


I was so excited I could hardly contain myself. There were a lot of people there. They'd had a harvest festival beforehand that we didn't feel like paying extra for. We sat down and the show got started with a local children's choir that was a little lack luster. I thought for sure the show was going to be far and beyond better. The show started and to be honest I was disappointed.
I don't know what I was expecting but it wasn't what I expected. The role of Icabod Crane was played a little too much like a fairy and was completely unlikeable. Contrarily the role of Brom Bones was played much more likeable. I fully admit that I was probably expecting way too much and the foley person was fabulous, the headless horsemen was really cool, and the music did start to get catchy by the end. We'll see if this really becomes a tradition.

Every Monday during the summer American Fork Arts council does a free concert series at Amphitheater Park across from the Timpanoogas Temple. It is one of the most amazing settings for...well anything. We've watched "The Sound of Music" and "Once on This Island" there. We see any play showing there and have even been to a couple wedding receptions there. It looks out at a view of Utah Lake framed in gigantic beautiful pine trees.


The whole park has a lot of big beautiful shady trees. (Something you really appreciate in Utah) We've had many picnics there even before we got married. It even rivals the temple grounds for the favorite picture taking spot around.


It is our absolute favorite park in American Fork. So when we heard that two young men in our ward had a band that was playing there we had to go. There were three bands playing that night. Almost Acoustic (Taylor and Jamison Sermon's band) was playing last. We got there and found a seat down towards the front so we could be in the thick of things but after the first bands first song we felt the need to protect Hyrum's tender ears and found our way to the top of the amphitheater. By the time Almost Acoustic took the stage Hyrum was getting tired and wasn't in the mood to mosh with the other kids in front of the stage. It was the debut of Almost Acoustic's first CD so they were selling shirts and CD's during the performance.. It was so fun seeing people we knew jamming in a band that seemed to be all the rage with the kids these days. They even sang back up and had guitar solo's. We were really tempted to buy a CD and a shirt but figured we should save our money for a house. We can still say we knew them then and saw them play the amphitheater park on the day of their CD debut. Till then Hyrum will have to jam to "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" We left there feeling a little older and not as hip but I guess that happens when your parents.

I forgot my camera the night of the concert so I went back to take pictures later. I was waiting for one of the many families getting their pictures taken to vacate the premises when I noticed Hyrum giving me a big cheeser grin so I decided to snap a picture.

Hyrum wanted to see another concert so he sat down in the stands to watch.

He waited in vain.