DragonCon Should Swing Toward Montreaux
So Two distinct events are going on downtown…
First is DragonCon! The world’s largest science fiction and fantasy convention is back! If you’ve not been downtown, you need to visit the peachtree center hotels!
The second is the Montreaux Atlanta Jazz Festival, featuring some of Atlanta’s best Jazz & Blues talent. Michel N’dege Ocello played last night and while a bigger crowd would have been nice, there were several hundred people.
The two festivals being so close to each other creates brilliant opportunities. First, the Jazz musicians are all staying at the Westin. So are many of the DragonCon participants. The result is that the Jazzers can bring some much needed funk to the DragonCon scene. There would also be the opportunity to create scenes that you’d never see anywhere else! Imagine! Klingons swing dancing!
Also, from an Atlanta perspective, there are 50,000 DragonCon participants. If they’ll just walk the 10 minutes to Underground, the Jazz festival will get real support!
Still, it’s just the idea of the Kilted Storm Trooper Brigade boogying to Be-bop that just cracks me up.