stART 2007 Procession and Fire Show
The Festival Procession - led by the Blairgowrie Pipe Band and
supported by Perth College’s Rhythm Wave Samba Band - left the
Wellmeadow in Blairgowrie headed for Ferguson Park with some 300
people in tow.
Clowns on stilts walked alongside excited children with newly
made lanterns and banners. Traffic came to a stand still as grand
parents, toddlers, parents pushing buggies and cool teenagers
paraded through the streets of Davie Park and scaled Loon’s Brae
for the grand finale of the day… the Fire Show!
One participant commented "Half an hour
later, after a rowdy, rambunctious, Samba and Pipe band fuelled,
banner filled Parade had danced through Davie Park, I found myself
walking nervously behind the stiltman, 10 feet tall in his top
hat as he negotiated the Loon Braes, ready to catch him. “If I
fall”, says he,” I tell you, I won’t be going down backwards.”
"
