Nice. People get a parade, nobody gets run over by a truck with no brakes. Win-Win.
Floats are lame anyway. 
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Iâm hoping for a lot of horse drawn things, and poop everywhere
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Cuz we all know that nobodyâs ever been hurt by a horse.
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Whatâs the point of a parade without a float? This city gosh I hate the irrational emotion-based decision-making this city does. Itâs enmbrassibg a city of our size almost 500,000 people have literal politicians making this kind of decisions based on emotion, they had a whole year to figure this out they could get it together, even the family said it was a bad idea to cancel the parade after last yearâs tragedy.
They said not motorized. They didnât say no floats. Just need some elephants, or horses, or strong kids to pull the floats.
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Look up the King Mango Strut in Coconut Grove (Miami). Itâs the most entertaining and fun parade Iâve ever been a part of or attended, all with no cars. Itâs completely grassroots and was born after a group was rejected from the boring, pompous, commercialized King Orange Bowl Jamboree Parade, which doesnât even happen anymore.
I would love to see something like the Strut here in Raleigh.
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I do feel like thereâs a lot of emotional decision making and listening to small numbers of loud people. Itâs happening all over, but is frustrating to see in Raleigh. It happens with zoning requests, not putting string lights over streets because⌠fire trucks, and now this parade. If thereâs legal liability concerns, they should just come out and say that directly. Thereâs already been permitted parades since last November, so it makes the cityâs message seem disingenuous.
I will point out that this decision apparently was not made by literal (or even figurative) politicians, but by unelected city staff. This was a massively and universally unpopular call, and doesnât fit with how elected officials operate. I did want to point out that friend-of-the-forum Jonathan Melton actually went out of his way to help develop the compromise that is letting the parade continue this year. Kudos to him for that.
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Looks like the IBMA World of Bluegrass Festival is leaving Raleigh. It is happening this week and will be back for 2024, but that will be the last year. Too bad, it is one of the nicer annual events.
Edit: hereâs another link from WRAL: IBMA World of Bluegrass Festival to leave Raleigh after 2024; city planning new event for 2025
The good news is that âorganizers say they plan to create a new Raleigh music festival with a broader range of music with Carolina rootsâ starting in 2025. I hope that happens.
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I believe someone on the council not the mayor is behind this probably the usual suspects.
"Will be a PineCone-run festival. Right now, IBMA hosts the business conference, awards show, rambles, and City of Raleigh/GRCVB/PineCone host the street festival. The RHA shows are hosted by IBMA and they profit off of the ticket sales.
The new iteration will be no business conference/awards/rambles. It will be a festival run by PineCone, who already books the acts for all of the stages at the existing IBMA Bluegrass Live! event."
According to someone on Reddit
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Yes, thatâs my understanding. Also worth noting, by 2025, this will be the longest IBMA has ever stayed in 1 city, which is a great reflection of Raleigh; nothing to feel too badly about them moving on to a new market. Music experience will remain very similar for the fans through new PineCone festival after 2025.
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For a region that is subtropical and global warming will only make it more tropical, the city really needs to stop with trying to make everything outdoors to save a few bucks. Outdoor amphitheater is fine but a large concert hall is way, way better. Especially this year when it rained in downtown nearly every important weekend that mattered.
Weather has costed this city hundreds of millions of dollars in cancelled events and itâs not the weatherâs fault, if there was a roof it would not be an issue.
The downtown in one of the fastest metro in the US shouldnât be struggling this bad.
Given that news articles are framing the PNC arena news as the city will basically rather move downtown to the PNC arena instead of the other wayâI donât see much improvement in the situation for a long time.
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You know when I was at Exploris every Wednesday we went to Fayetteville Street for a food market.
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Street festivals obviously appeal to a lot of people but I donât get it. Noisy food trucks , no shade, stinky hairy underarm people. To each their own.
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Idk where else to put this so Leo move this wherever you see fit. Please sign and post on your socials to help get more signatures and awareness. We really need to preserve as much of our local history as we can.
I will clarify I am all for rebuilding restaurant row, but we need to keep the vendors. Also this is not my own petition, just one I found.
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could they cordon off fayetteville st and just have a Christmas festival, bell ringers, hot tea, vendorsâŚand a santa?
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shameâŚwhen i lived in reno nv, a large outlet mall in neighboring sparks, nv used to throw a great Christmas outdoor eventâŚsantas playing rock and pop outdoors, all the stores surrounding the open plaza area open with discounts if it got a little chilly, tea, hot chocolate, local news live setupâŚa safe, fun upbeat event. economic issues i think stopped it. the outlet mall was adjacent to a paved 2 mile loop around lake with a casino a few hundred yards away.
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