And a good time was had by all.
A moment: a cloudless Saturday afternoon, Balboa Park, just in front of Cabrillo Bridge, maybe 200 people couples, families, friends lounging on the grass in the spreading shade of the Moreton Bay fig trees, enjoying the fine, free stylings of a six-piece band a couple of saxes, a drum, a trumpet, a sousaphone, and a trombonist who sometimes takes a break to sing through a megaphone. Just now, he is pleasing the crowd with a straight-faced cover of Britney Spears’ breakthrough 1998 hit, “…Baby One More Time,” getting everyone to shout along with the chorus’ big finish: