On the last day of the SoNo Arts Celebration, a puppet parade wowed the crowd. Gordon Phillips offered his observations:
This is not the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade with hours of ooh's and ahh's and waving celebrities, though there are some larger-than-life creatures. Nor is it a patriotic Fourth of July parade with Souza marches and white-gloved formations. This parade reminds one more of Mardi Gras memories, with oversized dancing heads and fantastical creatures, some ten feet tall.
There's something different about the crowd here too, it leans in a little bit more and bounces a little higher. It could be the beat, it's a contagious rhythm, drums and whistles of African descent filtered through the Caribbean. And it energizes the SoNo Arts Celebration crowd.
Or it might just be that this is a fairytale moment, a microburst of a parade, dancing adults and children and mythical things. There was a yellow polka-dot unicorn being ridden by a child. It is a puppet parade after all.
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