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Showing posts with label Festival. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Festival. Show all posts

Monday, August 15, 2011

Reggae In The Park


Seems like it's been Caribbean week in Hartford. Last weekend we visited the Caribbean Festival on the Riverfront and this weekend was the West Indies parade and reggae in the park. Who knew there was so much reggae music? We were always under the impression that reggae was kind of like a Nine Inch Nails and industrial rock situation; Bob Marley and no one else. Apparently that's not the case.

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

The Caribbean Festival


Saturday we visited the Caribbean Festival on the Riverfront. Actually we visited it twice, making an early afternoon trip and returning a few hours later in the evening. The festivals on the Riverfront are usually hit or miss. Sometimes there is a huge crowd, sometimes the crowd is a little underwhelming. The Caribbean Festival was definitely in the hit category.

During our afternoon visit the Riverfront was already packed with people. We came down for lunch and found it at the Scott's Bakery stand with a chicken patty and cocoa bread. You can really never go wrong with cocoa bread. We've been tempted a few times just to order three cocoa breads but we don't think that's exactly a balanced meal. Along with the food vendors, there were merchandise vendors selling literally everything under the sun with the Jamaican flag scheme and Bob Marley on it. Have to hand it to Bob Marley's estate, he's certainly reached the Star Wars level of cottage industry merchandising.

Monday, August 23, 2010

Sad City Visits The Asian Festival

On Saturday Sad City visited the Asian Festival on the Riverfront. The event was full of performers and vendors, featured boat races and some great food stands, but one performer stole the show. Some people get into performing for the love of their craft and the arts. Others perform for the money and the fame.