Batucada do Norte & UMN Play May Day

W E D ID I T ! ! ! Happy May Day, everyone!! Special thanks to BIRTHDAY TIM and SUPER PAT for their leadership. If you have photos, please feel free to post them to our Batucada Facebook page ( https://www.facebook.com/batucadadonorte/ )-- or right here on the blog (or e-mail), so that those of us not on facebook (like Pat!) can see them! For now, please enjoy these!!

Welcome to the FINAL COUNTDOWN, y'all. If you read that last post /e-mail, you know that we are meeting in   B R I G H T   B L O O M   c o l o r s,  at 11am on Sunday (May 6),  close to the corner of  Bloomington and 18th Ave S , asking for the  BLOOM section.    You also know that YOU are responsible for getting your instrument there, and for getting it back to Pat and Tim O'Keefe after the parade. Where are we walking in the parade / where are we going to end up after the parade, you ask?    Check out this handy May Day Parade Map graphic from Heart of the Beast Theatre:   https://hobt.org/mayday/parade/route/ Which means all that's left to do now is PRACTICE!!   Please come on down to OUR VERY LAST PRACTICE, at Lower Riverside Park on SATURDAY, May 5, at 11:00am!!    (Google Maps link here:   https://goo.gl/maps/knFQ6fCgc3H2 ) And, as always, please feel fre...

OH MY GOODNESS, YOU GUYS -- it's finally MAY!!!! Which means, of course, that the countdown is REALLY on. Here, presented as potential QUESTIONS you might have, is what to expect THIS SUNDAY, when we play at May Day: 1. First of all, WHAT section are we going to be in, in the May Day Parade lineup? We're going to be in the BLOOM section of the parade lineup.  (Jean Ockuly figured this out for us -- thanks Jeanie!) 2. OK, so WHERE is that? Well, even though it's the LAST section, we meet at the start of the parade,  which means that we're going to want to meet close to the corner of Bloomington and 18th Ave S .  When you get there, if you have any difficulty, remember you're in the BLOOM section, ask Parade Marshalls, and tell them you're "Toward the back"... they'll direct you where to go. From: https://hobt.org/mayday/parade/route/  3. Right, okay, so WHEN are we meeting? We're going to meet at about 11:00am  on Sunday,...