Did you miss the Flying Donkey Cabaret performance at Firestorm Cafe & Books? Particularly their memorable street-parade entrance? Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered. Xpress was there.
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Wonderful. Thanks for capturing the boisterous & gala parade and arrival. But what happened next at Firestorm, after the Flying Donkeys arrived? A Punch and Judy show?
Well, we did just schedule a Science Fiction Puppet show for May 28th, but were taking a turn for the serious with some awesome events the rest of this week, including a talk by Ryan Conrad, editor of “Against Equality, a Queer Critic of Gay Marriage” on Wednesday night. Since you asked ;).
Oh and that parade included some amazing folks from Bread and Puppet who are performing Wednesday at Penland.
Oh, oops, misread your comment. It was a fabulous variety show, puppets, minstrels, poems and comedy.
I only caught a little bit of the show. The part I saw was vaudeville-like puppet stuff.
The song is: The Dummy Song, most famously recorded by Louis Armstrong.
http://lyricsplayground.com/alpha/songs/t/thedummysong.shtml
I’m sorry I missed this!