I saw you there and am astounded that you didn’t see the group of children running around to the front of the band. Most of them were well behaved and courteous of the audience. However a couple of them were not only distracting to the band (as Juan mentioned between songs) but were annoying patrons. Many of the people who were sitting near by were remarking about it through out the entire performance, which is why it is important to mention. One child knocked an ice cream out of the hands of an elderly woman and the child’s mother, who was in a verbal spat with its father, told the child not to play with the ice cream while ignoring the elderly womans loss.

I know that if my child was acting in a manor that intruded on the enjoyment of others in this free public event, I would feel a responsibility to remove him for the benefit of others. There were actually more dogs at the concert than children and I didn’t see one pestering other people. I equated dogs and children because like dogs, young children don’t have the capacity to police themselves. So perhaps your comment is valid, maybe it is the parents of the distracting children who need choke chains.

That being said, I am looking forward to more of these great shows and hope that the distractions will be kept to a minimum for the enjoyment of everyone.

Keep up the great work.