It was hot on Wednesday. August hot. Eighty-two degrees Fahrenheit hot. And it probably felt a lot hotter still if you were one of the dozens of members of the Hugga Bunch troupe dancing in fits and spurts behind a flatbed truck broadcasting music.
“We’re talking about the dance floor,” a voice over the truck’s loudspeakers blared to the crowd. “That’s right, I want you to get down. I want you to whine down.”
The troupe’s temporary dance floor was a patch of pavement outside the East End Police Station where a sizable crowd had gathered to watch the East End/Long Look Festival Parade.
As the Hugga Bunch members — clad in gold and silver outfits adorned with bright yellow feathers that appeared as if they came from a relative of Big Bird —danced in the streets, the crowd replied with applause. The parade, which didn’t get fully underway until about 4:30 p.m., featured about 20 entries.
The parade was one of one of the final events in the three-day EE/LL Festival, which began on Aug. 5 hours after the August Monday Parade.
For more information, see the Aug. 15 edition of The BVI Beacon.
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