Zebra Music Festival Wrapup
The Zebra Music Festival concluded Sunday evening with a sea of tired but happy festivalgoers.
With a reported turnout in the tens of thousands, we're declaring the festival a milestone event for Chengdu and a general success for the contemporary culture and arts scenes in the region.
We wrap up our reportage of the event with a few more photos of the last two days.
By the second and third days, the crowd was showing more energy than it had on the first. Although the photo pit was too big for stage-divers to hurtle themselves across, crowd surfers managed to ride the sea of thousands of onlookers. Photo by Dan Sandoval.
A samba drum group made the trek from Beijing to do on-site shooting for "Chengdu, I Love You." The film is meant to raise awareness about the devastation of the May 12, 2008 Wenchuan earthquake and is partly directed by "godfather of Chinese rock" Cui Jian. Photo by Dan Sandoval.
While festival-goers were generally calm and security relatively lax, guards had to push back excited audience members during S.H.E.'s performance. The Taiwanese pop supergroup was the headliner of night 2 and one of the most viewed of all the acts. Photo by Leo Chen.
Beijing punk band the Subs singer Kang Mao treats the audience to her signature screams and growls. Photo by Dan Sandoval.
By nightfall, some festival-goers had grown tired. Photo by Leo Chen.
French dub band and night 3 headliners Hightone saw many leaving the venue to beat the crowds, but die-hard fans stayed on to dance until the last note. Photo by Dan Sandoval.
Local Chengduers The Trouble Big Band close out the Lotto stage show on Sunday, May 3. Photo by Dan Sandoval.
For video footage of most of the main-stage performances, go here.
Additional photos of the festival can be viewed here, here, and here.
This article was posted by Jane and published May 4, 2009
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