Sunday, July 24, 2005

Luminara Victoria Lantern Festival

Today (July 23), I went to Luminara Festival in the Beacon Hill Park.
This festival is also called the Lantern Festival and is held at night. So tonight, the park was filled with many kinds of lanterns and candles. Some performers were also singing or dancing inside the candles.
The most interesting work on this year was the "Icy Candles." Each candles was put into an round ice and all of them were set like a small mountain. Many people touched the ice and said "It's ice" or "Cool."
The fiddlers were fantastic too. Two young women and one man were playing very fast and rhythmical melody. And one woman (the leader) were playing a melody with her fiddle vertically on her right shoulder. I was really amazed. I've never imagined that playing style so it was a big shock. I'm sure I'll ask about this to my violin teacher.
Festival is fun.

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