napkin

The instructions from City Hall were: “You could draw a plan on a napkin and we’ll say yes to it,” recalled Ginger Brown, the head of a business group in the city’s Jamaica Plain neighborhood.

“I can be the napkin lady,” she said.

Eventually drawn to country music thanks to Brad Paisley and Eric Church, he moved to Nashville after college to try songwriting; the new album’s title track quotes a bar napkin someone stuffed in a tip jar during one early gig.

They came for the face painting and food, and their concerns are more mundane: teaching kids to read, paying the bills, finding a napkin to clean Popsicle juice off chubby toddler legs.

Carlos first sketched it on a napkin; five weeks later, a precisely orchestrated team built the elaborate tent, including a team of seven who draped the frame with 7,000 yards of fabric.