Paul Revere and the Raiders-Epcot

Welcome to our continued celebration of the International Flower and Garden Festival happening right now in Disney World’s Epcot. The International Flower and Garden Festival is full of flowers, topiary, events and music. It is happening now and ends on May 31, 2009. Last week we started walking around the world together checking out the Flower and Garden Festival one exhibit at a time before we head out this week I want to stop and tell you about last weekend’s Flower Power Concert. Readers of this blog will often hear this line… “I never knew this until I found out about it at Disney World…” It seems that not only I am having a fantastic daily vacation at Disney World I am also being educated on the “World” and so many bands. So here we go with my weekly confession of “not knowing…”

Last weekend we made our way to Epcot specially for the purpose of seeing the Flower Power Concert Series (concerts for all events at Epcot this year are now only on weekends). Before heading out we looked at the schedule to see who was playing after reading it I looked and asked… “Who is Paul Revere and the Raiders?” Assured by almost everyone person I asked the question to I was told that although I did not know the name or the people I would no doubt know the music when I heard it and would definitely like at least one song that was played. Well… everyone was right! Ask me today to recall the names of the songs and I will have them in my head, know the tune but tell you to wait while I google them. But like the many people who told me I will tell you if you cannot draw a recollection from the mere name of the band… trust me, you have heard them and you will most definitely like at least one of their songs. And the show! I have never laughed so much. From the props to the music it was one of the best concerts I have seen at Disney World. Besides singing some great songs there were jokes… many, many jokes. One of the crowd favorites was when Paul Revere told the audience that they became rich because they were paid to put on the tights and then proudly he held up what the tights looked like before they put them. Let me just say a small doll could not fit into the tights he held up. It was great.

Come back tomorrow and we will continue our tour of Epcot during the International Flower and Garden Festival…