Hello All,
We are so excited to announce that a weekly column will appear in the Ojai Valley News featuring your memories at Libbey Bowl. If you would like to share you story, please email Anna Cho at acho@libbeybowl.org.
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I’d lived in Ojai less than a year when, during the 1979 Music Festival, I heard the great Ravi Shankar playing sitar with tabla virtuoso Alla Rakha. It’s only one musical memory of Libbey Bowl from among so many–such as the wonderful years of the Bowlful of Blues–but it’s one I’ll never forget.
In 1994 we purchased a “bulldozer special” adjacent to Libbey Bowl. Our decision to purchase was based on Location-Location-(and a great stove) but after scratching the surface of our new nest and painfully realizing why no bank would consider carrying this mortgage, rivers of tears flooded forth. Outside the air was completely filled with the amazing licks from the annual Bowlful of Blues. Holding each other close, sobbing unconsolibly, we danced, swirling ’round and ’round to the music that enveloped us. I’ll never forget that time… WELCOME HOME!!!!!