Chicago Full Moon Jam June 8th, 2017

in chicago •  7 years ago 

Wow.
At least 400 people, if not more gathered just north of Montrose harbour near Lake Michigan in Chicago last night for what I would call a pure form of performance art and joy. 20170608_203122.jpg
There where guys on stilts, girls hooping, bright colored hair, dreads, happy dresses and smiles everywhere. The main attraction was in the center of a roped off area, the fire performers. I saw a girl with a fan in each hand, the wide ends of which had balls of fire. She would wave them around creating graceful arcs in the lowering light. There was a man with double ended fire sticks doing what looked like a hawaiian fire dance. Another guy had a whips of fire in each hand, flailing them up into the sky! Fire breathers blasted out gouts of dragon breath, just stunning!
Next to this circle was the drummers, a ring with over 70 random percussion instruments joyfully beating a free flowing jazz like song, with rhythms changing in synchronization from one idea to the next. The result was a very powerful backdrop to all the fun.
If you've ever been to a grateful dead concert, you know the vibe, but instead of everyone aiming at a stage, we where aiming at each other.

20170608_205721.jpg

Authors get paid when people like you upvote their post.
If you enjoyed what you read here, create your account today and start earning FREE STEEM!
Sort Order:  

that looks like fun!

Next time, I'm bringing my own lights!

Where was the "Grateful Dead" bootlegging crew?

LOL

Congratulations @alleywalkler! You have completed some achievement on Steemit and have been rewarded with new badge(s) :

Award for the number of comments

Click on any badge to view your own Board of Honnor on SteemitBoard.
For more information about SteemitBoard, click here

If you no longer want to receive notifications, reply to this comment with the word STOP

By upvoting this notification, you can help all Steemit users. Learn how here!