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For anyone who had forgotten about the simple pleasures of sitting outside in a camp chair, amid a throng of a thousand of your friends and neighbors, with a cold drink and a picnic dinner, all in front of a stage with a parade of live musicians performing, Saturday’s Spring Fling at the site of the Bar J Chuckwagon was a potent reminder.
It was a fundraiser for the Teton Music School, the nonprofit that for a bit over a year has been connecting teachers and pupils in the Center for the Arts’ music rooms. It was also the first outdoor music fest of 2021, and, really, the first massive outdoor gathering any sort since the fall of 2019. Featured were local headliners The Deadlocks, Baldy Dread (Peter “Chanman” Chandler’s reggae incarnation), a trio of members of the legendary Bar J Wranglers, and Sister Karee and Friends, who all helped lure an energized but well-behaved crowd of 700 or more lockout-weary music fans to the venue off Village Road.

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