"But Saturday night's Goosemas was so overshadowed by the worst kind of darkness, I woke up thinking of Neil Young's "Ohio." That's a song about a campus shooting back when they were so rare we wrote songs about them. Two dead in Providence. Nine injured. A shooting at Brown University, just minutes away from the Amica Mutual Pavilion where Goose's Goosemas was a technicolor dream: a musical funhouse jamboree, complete with clown costumes, an aerialist, animal puppets, confetti, thousands of colored balloons. A contrast so sharp from the real world just outside, it could cut glass."
"Goosemas 2025 - back in New England for the first time in years - was an all-out carnival funhouse at the AMP in Providence Dec. 12 and 13. Think Beatrix Potter on acid. "Sesame Street" on LSD. Goosemas 2025 was "Over the Garden Wall" meets traveling 1890s circus, campy playful carnival lunacy, pageantry, with a dash of the throw-it-at-the-wall-and-see-what-sticks vibe of Rolling Thunder Revue. A massive balloon drop, confetti, streamers, masterful trippy light work, a clown's mouth, an aerialist on silks, human-sized puppets via Best Giant Puppets - a fox, a cardinal, a monkey - a marionette menager"
Goosemas 2025 at Amica Mutual Pavilion in Providence presented an extravagant, carnival-themed concert with clown costumes, an aerialist, giant animal puppets, confetti, and a massive balloon drop. The production mixed whimsical, trippy pageantry described as Beatrix Potter on acid, "Sesame Street" on LSD, and traveling 1890s circus elements with elaborate lighting and puppetry. Goosemas is the annual holiday concert extravaganza put on by New England jam band Goose that began as a small holiday party in Norwalk, Conn., and grew exponentially. A shooting at nearby Brown University left two dead and nine injured, creating a stark, jarring contrast to the festive interior.
Read at Boston.com
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