Gypsy Dance Party in Burlington

For several days, you could find any one of the members of the Vermont Joy Parade roaming the streets of Burlington, busking on Church Street or outside a local coffee shop, maybe even driving YOU back from an eye doctor's appointment in a hydrogen-powered cab.
The band, a collective of Burlington musicians who mix gypsy jazz, old-timey, jugband blues and hillbilly punk, has toured the country since 2008 playing venues grand and small, from street corners in California to in front of thousands at Bonnaroo. In a veggie-powered bus and an entourage of street musicians, artists and hobos, they're just as much a moving force as they're a traveling band.
After teases around town all week, the full circus came to Burlington for an album release party at Parima on Tuesday night. (Notice I said album, as in vinyl: No CD or download.)
The big top atmosphere was present throughout the entire night.
During every song, the ringleader and band cheerleader Phinn would juggle glow-in-the-dark spheres, and after every song, he would grab a megaphone and shout "Give a hand for the Vermont Joy Parade! From Bur-ling-ton, Ver-mont!" Spontaneous dance circles busted out on the dance floor and at the start of the second set, an impromptu game of limbo was arranged, with the limbo stick a broken mop handle. For the encore, the band invited everyone on stage who had an instrument in what turned out to be twenty people on stage.