This week, we were supposed to go to Zapatos to see a band on Saturday night, but it was overbooked and ended up being canceled. I had already been to see Blaggards at O'Bannon's on Friday night, so I can talk a bit about that, instead, but I did not take note of much since we were planning to attend a different event for the ethnography.
O'Bannon's was holding an event called St. Blaggards' Day, with Blaggards playing all night. I arrived around 11:00, to find that the bar wasn't very crowded. Most people were sitting or standing around the band. However, many of them were having conversations among themselves and the atmosphere was very tame. By midnight, there were a lot more people there and almost everyone had their attention focused on the band, with some mild dancing occurring. During breaks between songs, the crowd would yell out songs that they wanted to hear or go up to quietly ask the band to play desired songs. For the most part, the band obliged, even playing the Aggie War Hymn to which the audience sang along and sawed em off.
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