The Salem World Beat Festival is held annually on the last weekend in June. The event is divided into five “villages” with enough food, handicrafts, and fine arts performances to sate your desires for worldly ethnic travel. There is no entrance fee, but a $3 donation per person is welcome, and you can’t beat that price in bringing the world to you. The performances are always entertaining as well as educational (spurring thoughts of “Wow, I wish I could do that”), but I have to question having the event on what feels like the hottest day of the year when normally benign people are at their most irritable. That angora bunny must have been hot. I had an unfortunate encounter with two of the most unhelpful snotty volunteers named Mary and Judy. They were at the volunteer tent, and I think their role was to be condescending to everyone who crossed their path. It is too bad that two rotten individuals could completely mar an amazing event that promotes brotherhood, sisterhood, and global cultural understanding. If you can avoid Mary and Judy, then you, too, should go to the World Beat Festival.
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