One of the nation's largest community arts festivals, the annual Memorial Day weekend celebration invites everyone to play, dance, sing, learn, taste, and participate! Participants enjoy hundreds of performances and interactive events.And a description from Wikipedia:
It brings together an estimated 250,000 visitors, 1,800 volunteers, and more than 6,000 musicians, dancers, and other performers. Admission is free, but donations are encouraged. The first festival was held in 1972 and has since grown to become the largest free festival of its kind in North America.We spent a few hours on Saturday afternoon there and had a pretty good time. Like any festival, there were lots of booths and food stands. There were also musicians and performers everywhere. We arrived around 11 and had a half dozen mini cinnamon sugar donuts from the Mighty-O Donuts stand. Then we walked around and checked out some of the booths, then we ate lunch - Lesley got a gyro and I had cilantro salmon, which was actually pretty good, despite there being no line to order. We sat while we ate and listened to a bluegrass band. After that, we checked out a few of the crafts booths and almost bought a mirror. As the day went on, the festival got really busy.
Later on, Lesley got some roasted corn on the cob and then we stood and listened to a band with lots of xylophones. The music was actually really cool and probably the highlight of the festival for me. The last thing we did was buy an apple dumpling with caramel sauce and cinnamon covered ice cream, which we enjoyed on our walk home. It was a lot of fun and I'm looking forward to going back next year.
Here's a video of the xylophone music I liked:
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Karen went to a folk music festival recently. I wish I'd gotten to go, since I like that kind of music. Was the xylophone band artsy or were they playing recognizable stuff but with xylophones?
The xylophone band was artsy. While we were there they played stuff similar to what's on the video. It was pretty cool actually.
I really wanted the mirror surrounded by green pieces of glass that you see in our photo gallery, but for one thing it was $150, and for another it had blue and brown pieces of glass in it as well, which don't really match with our decoration theme.
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