Funeral Parade - 2009

The Sternwheel Regatta is gone, but the Funeral Parade lives on.









The majorette in green looks pretty good from the back!

From the front, not so much!

Blues Traveler at the Regatta

No, that's not Blues Traveler, that's my old buddy Steve Payne who was singing in the opening act, Soul Doctor. He just shaved his beard off and now he looks (to me) just like his brother.

Below is another old buddy, Mike Keller. When we spotted each other, the crowd...

...had really started to crush in and there was no way we could get close to each other.

There's Popper! The concert was great, but really I was standing right in front of the speakers and I'm not sure what they were playing. I should have taken some earplugs.







Kanawha Boulevard was really rockin' tonight.

Regatta Funeral Parade!

What fun! This parade is a long-standing tradition in Charleston's Sternwheel Regatta festival.