With the holiday season quickly approaching, S&B reporter Zach Spindler-Krage took to downtown Grinnell, Iowa to ask community members the critically important question, “What is your favorite part of the holiday season in Grinnell?” The answers varied, but the enthusiasm shone through in every answer, leaving us excited for the festivities on the horizon.
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The relationship between an audience and a musician is often symbioticâboth the performer and the listener receive something from the experience. âWe love performing for an audience and need to do it as much as they enjoy hearing it,â said Mary Lindberg, who together with her partner John Redden comprise the acoustic duo The Silent Trees.
In terms of playing live music, 2020 was definitely a year for the record books.
âIn March we knew something serious was happening, and we knew it would affect us because we play shows every weekend,â said Mr. Redden, adding that the pair, who have been together as a band for 10 years, are usually booked for gigs every Friday and Saturday and have a regular Thursday night gig in the summer playing at the West Falmouth Market.
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Neighbors, from left, Brian Rossow, Mary and Mick Lindberg, Rick Smith, Tim and Cheryl Fedje and Sheree and Jeremy Nelson. The group of neighbors, along with others not pictured, have all decorated their houses for the holiday season. The group is pictured in front of Rick Smith s home Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2020, in Rochester. (Joe Ahlquist / jahlquist@postbulletin.com)
Holiday cheer isn’t confined to high-traffic streets.
Some of Rochester s smallest streets boast big spirit.
Is it the close-knit nature of a community sharing a small street? Is it peer pressure not to be the neighborhood Grinch?
“I don’t know if it’s trying to win a contest or what, but it’s grown over time,” said Mick Lindberg, who lives on Elton Hills Court Northwest, a short, decoration-dense horseshoe street.