Bowfest 2003
The annual Bowfest celebration was a great time for all. We all went out and watched the parade of floats make their way from the school to the Cenotaph. The Koreans from the General Store had a large accompaniment of kids drumming and playing traditional Korean instruments as usual, and Doc Morgan’s did a fine job of playing up the Disney theme for the parade with their float titles “Frying Nemo” with walking french fries to go along with the excellent halibut they serve every day. The parade champion was the S.K.Y. group (Seniors Keeping Young) with their bikini(teeshirt)-clad group dancing and doing semi-high kicks down the street.
After work I found a couple friends that had been at the festivities all afternoon, looking a bit sunburnt and tired, so we took a break at my place just as the angry band came on the stage. I didn’t get their name and don’t have the souvenir program from the Undercurrent, but they sure sounded upset about something compared to the rest of the music that day that was pretty much upbeat. The main stage had a new musical group every half hour it seemed, and Gino the Happy Italian played his bass guitar with practically every one of them it seemed. Chris Corrigan had a good set and probably the most people dancing as it’s pretty much impossible not to at least tap your toes listening to Irish Heather music.
About nine o’clock someone named Frank Soda started playing in a suit covered with what looked like white xmas tree lights, then went on to a ping pong ball head that reminded me of the Jack in the Box commercials from the US until the point when it started shooting out roman candle fireworks from the top. That was when we left and made out way up to The Pub to dance the rest of the night away to the great sounds of Brenda, Tony and the Boweners.