Here it is already the last day of Fasnacht and I am listening to the Guggen Music as night falls on Basel, six hours and few thousand miles away. The Guggen bands play pop music (as opposed to all that 17th century drum and fife stuff). It is where the blue note gets to ring a little jazz into the streets. They are brass bands with lots of percussion and you find people dancing to the music. Doesn’t have quite the charm of the other, but makes up for it in general New Orleans (before the flood) style good times. It’s the stuff that more or less sounds like a parade to most people.
and they dance that night away alone, or in crowds.
