Colville
Rendezvous
2003
Every year, Colville celebrates a "Rendezvous" in the City Park. It is nothing like the Rendezvous' of the Hudson's Bay and American Fur Company days, but the tradition has its roots in the fur industry. Fort Colville, the southern-most fort of the immense Hudson's Bay Company, was located on the Columbia river, just 15 or so miles from the present city of Colville.
The Mountain Melodies had the opportunity to perform at the Rendezvous this year, along with quite a few other performing groups from the area. The area has concessions by a number of local artists and venders, as well.
The group warmed up on the lawn of a neighbor's house next to the park. The weather was a bit touchy this year, but the show went on.
The Mountain Melodies, and their quartets, actually performed on two days of the Rendezvous. They performed numbers from the 50's and a number of other traditional songs and melodies.
Actually, you never know who might be listening to the music...
The Melodies ended their day's performance with the Quartet "Forward Motion" performing the National Anthem.
Day TWO
The Melodies dressed up for 50's music and put on a great 50's "Doo-wop" type program. The audience really enjoyed themselves, as did the Melodies....
When the Melodies finished their performance all four quartets took to the stage and did some more melodies of their own. This included a new quarted that hasn't even had time to chose their name....so the Webbie/Roadie decided to call them the "No name quartet"...
The first quartet to perform today was "Sing 4 Joy:"
They were followed by the mystery quartet (Hello...name yet? 
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The program ended with the "Forward Motion" Quartet performing a series of melodies....
Every evening, music wafts from the Colville City Park as other groups perform. The Mountain Melodies also thank Steve Oswin and his son Jeremy for their work maintaining the sound system for the whole two days. They even disassembled it one night to have a good old fashioned dance in the Park tennis courts. Jeremy also performed with his great group during the Rendezvous Days.
All good things have to end, though, and as the vendors and visitors all headed home, so did the memories of the men and women who began this thing...
