Johnson Bank Vikings practice in the Harbor ThursdayThat mantra of Racine's three Rotary clubs is modified these days to, "Stroke!" "Stroke!" "Stroke!"
For the next 10 days, as teams practice most evenings in the harbor and the Root River next to the Chancery, Racine is the home of dragon boats, colorfully decorated 20-oar sculls, that will participate in the Great Midwest Dragon Boat Festival on July 10 and 11. Racine's sixth annual dragon boat festival will take place at Samuel Myers Park.
The free festival begins at 6:30 pm Friday night, July 10, with the parade of teams along Pershing Boulevard, led by colorful Chinese lion dancers who will perform the opening ceremony. The teams will make their way from 6th Street to the festival grounds, across from Gateway Technical College at on 11th Street. There will be a free concert on Friday evening at Samuel Myers Park. Food and beverages also will be available.
Dragon boat races begin at 8:30 a.m. on Saturday, July 11, and continue until about 5 p.m., culminating in the championship races. The best viewing is from Simonsen Park, along the hill on Main Street between Sixteenth and Fourteenth Streets. Food vendors will be at both Simonsen Park and Samuel Myers Park.
The Festival is a fundraiser for the three Rotary clubs of Racine, benefitting community youth organizations.
Friday's free concert will have two bands.
First up is Camio Camora, starting at 6:30 p.m. The band consist of Erin Lalor (bass) and Josh Krug (guitar and vocals), ex-members of Drift Away Hero; Kevin MacPhail (lead guitar); and Ryan Mooney (drums), ex-member of Eleventh Hour Onset. They have a new up beat pop-punk / hardcore style and hopefully give everyone who listens an eargasm so hope you enjoy the music these boys make.
They will be followed by the Twang Dragons, at 8 p.m. They’ve been tearing up stages big and small for a while, with self-penned tunes that fall somewhere between Johnny Cash and Tom Petty. Or think maybe John Hiatt or Steve Earle meets Chrissie Hynde if she sang all twangy-like.
Critics have called their music such things as “a little bit country, a little bit fire-breathin' serpintine grooving rocker” and “a combination of professional chops and let-it-all-hang-out abandon”. Whatever you call it, it's performed by musicians who write it and play it like they mean it. They also toss in covers from the man in black to criminally under-appreciated talents like Robbie Fulks, John Sieger and Lucinda Williams.
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Good luck, City Slickers!!!
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