The Gathering 2015

The third great year of a great event. Thousands of people, speaking dozens of different languages, with different cultures and different life experiences, all gathering together for a festival celebrating each others music, dance, clothing, food, culture.

As before, The Gathering started with a parade down East Main Street, around the Green, up Bank Street to Grand Street, and then to Library Park. The park was set up with stages for music and dance performances, and tents for vendors selling food and other goods from all over the world.

New Zealand (Rod Dixon)

Puerto Rico

Turkey

Turkey

Portugal

Maloney Magnet School puppets.

Duggan Elementary School dragons

Italy

Albania

Brazil

Guyana

Kennedy High School's Nuts and Bolts of Fury--and their robot, which was later set up in a tent for kids to try using (it shoots frisbies).

Cape Verde

Thailand (carrying photo of King Bhumiboi Adulyadej and Queen Sirikit)

Colombia

Cambodia

Dominican Republic

Ecuador

Mexico

Mexico

Honduras

Pakistan

Watching the parade in front of City Hall.

Ben Franklin had the best seat for watching the parade.

Marching to Library Park

Activities for kids in front of the Library

Mattatuck Fife and Drum Band

Egypt

Kurdistan
(Contributed Photo)

Lebanon

Irish dancing

Greek dancing

The Albanian circle dance.

Brazil

Watching the dance performances from the edge of the stage.

The Gathering's visionary, John Murray, sharing his thoughts.

Warming up by the French-Canadian tents.

Frenchfame dance lesson for the kids on stage.

Liberia.
Kids collected visits to different countries--every time they met a person
from a different country, they checked off that country from a sheet of flags.

Guyana and Ghana dancing to drum music.

Audience listening to old style Salsa music.

Argentina