The 8th Annual Wachusett Mountain MusicFest poster was my entry into their poster design contest. Not having gone before, I was still inspired by the blues players in the lineup. I imagined a mountainside in the late summer awash in sunlight, all manner of scents and colors, the kids running up the slopes. A minstrel seemed the appropriate character, a player in the slipstream, sliding through the crowd and coaxing the music forth. They asked me to design the 9th Annual Poster the following year, my idea was to create a retro-looking broadside, with the typography playing first fiddle.