Before the festival started, the EF organizers sent a request out via Facebook for hoopists to submit videos of their performances. The winners got free tickets! I suppose those folks also got together and did a bit of rehearsing or at least prior planning, because on Saturday they all got together and did a bit of performing.
It was during SCI's second set on Saturday night. We had set up our blanket and the B.O.B. in the middle of the field next to another family blanket with kids and a wagon. We had a nice, big, kid-friendly area set up. Little by little, hoopers in wild costumes with piles of hoops started gathering behind us. Once the sun went down, they all started hooping around us, and suddenly we were surrounded on all sides by fabulous hoopists - a little island of families in the midst of a freek show!
This also meant we were front-row for the actual LED hoop performance. I was the first one on the scene with a camera, and I got several good still shots and about a minute of video of the performance. It was epic! Definitely the best thing I've seen done with hula hoops, ever.
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