| HONK! Providence |
[Oct. 14th, 2009|08:59 pm] |
PRONK! or HONK!-Providence got off to kind of a slow start at India Point Park on Monday afternoon. We wandered around looking for bands but found a group from RISD doing some kind of en plein air painting exercise.
We spotted a couple of people looking for their bands, including a guy from the Extraordinary Rendition Band who found out that contrary to what it said on the poster, the bands weren't scheduled to be there until 5:00 PM but some would be there starting at 3:00 PM.
We contemplated walking back up to Wickenden Street for more coffee and were just about to leave when a band from Austin, Texas showed up. They hadn't gotten the 3:00 PM message eithe r. Anarchists are not very well organized, but PRONK! was disorganized even for anarchists. I told the guys from Austin that they should read John Sayles' short story The Anarchist's Convention.
Musicians began to trickle in and started jamming with the guys from Austin. Eventually. the guy from ERB found the rest of his band. More bands showed up. The music was so good that even I danced.
The crowd grew. More bands joined in. They all played together and it was wonderful.
 There was a whole other happening going on involving hula hoops. Apparently some boomer age people were teaching little kids and some Gen-X and Millennial types how to do it. Very cool.
A clown made balloon animals. Jugglers passed clubs around a volunteer kid from the audience. The wind blew relentlessly in off the water chilling everybody.
We met a mother and son visiting from rural Tennessee doing the East Coast college visiting thing. They were staying at the Radisson and heard the music so wandered over. The boy is applying to Brown, MIT, and Yale. We told him you can get a good education wherever you go but if he does go to MIT, he might want to pledge DKE for my brother's cooking. They were looking for something coastal and touristy and quintessentially New England to see so we sent them to Beavertail Light in Jamestown figuring you couldn't get more New England than a lighthouse with big waves crashing around it.
The rest of the pictures are up on Flickr. Have a look.
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