A french festival and the Great Circus Parade in Milwaukee

A couple of weekends ago, Milwaukee celebrated two events…. One called Bastille Days, which is a french festival and the second called The Great Circus Parade.. This post is about my visits to these events over a period of three days… Enjoy the photographs!

Bastille Days is a 4 day festival which was held at the Cathedral Square in Easttown Area of Downtown Milwaukee… This was essentially a festival focusing on three things, Good food, Good music, and take a guess, well! good Wine!

I am not a wine fan, but I did enjoy some brilliant performances, and some Egyptian and Greek food during the festival…

Over to visuals now…

This is the north stage…

Street artists at the Bastille Days…

Some images from the South Stage in the festival…

So this was all about Friday… The next morning I decided to walk over to the Lakefront where the Great Circus Parade was camping… Walked around the place looking at various wagons, watching people enjoying with family, this was a place to come to with kids… They really enjoying watching the horses, elephants, Jokers, Camels etc etc

This guy’s mom had an inter-cast marriage with a Dalmatian…

India? Someone is still living in the British Raj when it comes to India…

After spending a few hours at the Circus Parade grounds I headed back home…

And decided to go to Bastille Days again in the evening ! Just the right time to enjoy some amazing live music….

What I really like about US is that people enjoy and dance irrespective of their age… Mostly people in their 40s and 50s were dancing around the south stage this time around… Teenagers and Youth apparently were not interested in this festival, as I did not see many !

Some rope acrobats as well in the festival….

I have developed a strong liking for country music here, and I was happy to hear it live too… The base guitarist was amazing!!!

And the next morning which was Sunday, I went to see the parade… People had reserved/blocked spaces on the street sides for days in advance, some kept their chairs, some had marked the spots with duct-tape, some had even pitched their tents and were staying there for a few days… The number of people I see in Milwaukee every weekend is probably equal to the number I see in 4-5 winter months together!

Ok, back to the Parade, enjoy!

Like I said, these were family events 🙂 Even the horses were not behind… Baby horses were a part of the parade with Mommy Horses…