280 Boogie

The 280 Boogie is my favorite thing to do in Auburn. (Actually, it's in Waverly, but you know what I mean.) Simply put, it is an outdoor music festival where local vendors sell their products, and people of all ages and from all walks of life come to enjoy some of the best local music you'll ever find. And it's FREE which gets progressively more exciting the closer I get to graduation. The music is a bluegrass/folk/indy/mountain combination, meaning that just about every band has banjos, harmonicas, and vests. Original, rootsy, and raw is the flavor of sound. There are always a few people who end up hoola-hooping, which apparently is some sort of trend for these types of events. The only thing better than the music is the people. Families, old men without their shirts on, college students, local hippies, middle aged bums etc are some of the rustics that literally come out of the woodworks to be at the boogie. Folks spread out blankets, pull out their beers, and sway, clap, sometimes dance to the sounds of originality. It's a place where real people come to express their real selves with an uninhibited freedom that's only evoked with deeply original and colloquial music. These are the days that I'm glad I live in Auburn, Alabama.