Maria Leao of Oakland waves a Dead Winter Carpenters banner during the Lake Tahoe band’s performance July 3 at the Grandstand. Tim Parsons / Tahoe Onstage
Dan McEvoy and 20-month-old Sierra amid bubbles. Tim Parsons / Tahoe Onstage
Georgia Waters of Georgia works the Hula Hoop. Tim Parsons / Tahoe Onstage
Christopher Reynolds of Reno dons giant Elvis Flies. Tim Parsons / Tahoe Onstage
Meg Amor of Paradise.
IN the spirit of the World Cup Bryan Casey of Santa Cruz makes soccer moves . Tim Parsons / Tahoe Onstage
Anthony Signorelli jumps a fence to shag a soccer ball. Tim Parsons / Tahoe Onstage
Squirt gun shooting is popular at High Sierra
John W. Peckham of Wildwood Mo. with one of the five cameras he used to make a video of Stanley Jordan. Peckham is Jordan’s tour manager. Tim Parsons / Tahoe Onstage
Blocking up in the medical tent are Reno residents Felicia Khan, left, Ashley Marshall and Pondscum (his Burning Man name)
Rob Tobin wears a Grateful Dead T-shirt at the Dead Winter Carpenters Grandstand show. Tim Parsons / Tahoe Onstage
Wendy Lynna Hanna and Fancy Nancy relax in a hammock at the Grandstand. Tim Parsons / Tahoe Onstage
Meg Amor of Paradise twirls hoops will the Carolina Chocolate Drops play on the Grandstand. Tim Parsons / Tahoe Onstage
Tahoe Onstage photographer is out of the sun during a video shoot of the Dead Winter Carpenters.
The 29th High Sierra Music Festival starts on the Fourth of July.
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Gregg Harmon of Reno has been wearing bunny ears at High Sierra ever since the 2011 My Morning Jacket show. Tim Parsons / Tahoe Onstage
QUINCY — Tahoe Onstage, offstage: Faces in the crowd at the July 3-6 24th annual High Sierra Music Festival.
ABOUT Tim Parsons
Tim Parsons is the editor of Tahoe Onstage who first moved to Lake Tahoe in 1992. Before starting Tahoe Onstage in 2013, he worked for 29 years at newspapers, including the Tahoe Daily Tribune, Eureka Times-Standard and Contra Costa Times. He was the recipient of the 2011 Keeping the Blues Alive award for Journalism.