Saturday's Lawyers vs. Guitars concert was just plain fun.
Featuring nearly a dozen members of the local legal comunity and some very talented family members, including four teenagers, the concert was a fundraiser for four local youth arts organizations — the In-Sight Photography Project, Vermont Jazz Center, Brattleboro Music Center and River Gallery School.
Some 150 people turned out to The Church in Brattleboro to lawyers put down their briefcases and pick up guitar cases for an evening. The music was diverse - spanning some five centuries - with a heavy concentration of folk and rock tunes from the '60s and 70s. What was impressive was that most of these lawyers had pretty good chops and pulled tunes from a pretty cool range of sources. Any concert that has songs by Tom Waits, Iris DeMent, the Beatles, Neil Young, the Grateful Dead, Elvis Presley and Motown can't be all bad, right?
There were many appreciative whoops and hollers from the audience, a lot of smiles to be seen, and, most important more than $1,600 raised to be split between four appreciative and worthy organizations.
The concert establishes ample precedent for another one to be held. Let's bring it back on appeal.