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Joseph Fiedler
HIGANTE Y CALIENTE!
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I got an email last week from illustrator Richard Downs inviting me up to see him in Nevada City [CA].  He said that he’d be appearing that Saturday as a giant Spanish puppet [Higante] in a children’s parade with his wife Gwyn’s Afro-Cuban drumming ensemble at the annual World Music Festival.  How could I refuse, especially on the heels of the Stauffer-stock Karaoke sing-off the night before in San Rafael?  It was a hippy- dippy, tie dyed weekend, that’s for sure.  Here are a few pix to prove I’m not exactly bull-shittin’ you, man!
Some of the drum ensemble's gear
Downs with the rig under construction
Downs suiting up
Higante gets underway
There were kids and belly dancers and all sorts of carnival/burning man, gypsy types
Another "puppet"
She was leading
It was really hot!
parade overview
The main stage during a break
Another "puppet"
Happy Hippy campers
Richard, Scary and Nano
The sweat soaked Karaoke posse: Stewart Bradford, John Hersey, Scary, Nano, Stauffer, Stauffer's Mom, Hunt and McCauley [kneeling]? Who took this picture? Photo courtesy Robert Hunt


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