THE DREADS LANDED. The Sierra Nevada World Music Festival packs them in every year, and Mendocino County’s most happening venue, Boonville, radiated peace, love and good vibrations all weekend, as Mendo’s very own rasta-groover, Sister Yasmin would say. Our fair town was so crowded Saturday and Sunday with reggae fans, that people were parking well beyond our civic center at Boonville High School to the north, the Boonville Brewery to the south. The holy herb was the dominant scent. Pedicabs shuttled people to and fro, and many locals enjoyed the music whether they wanted to or not, as main stage’s powerful amps boomed congas and cowbells, stirring The Valley’s somnolent summer hills.
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