Spattering rain and cool temperatures raked over the Children`s Hospital complicating the outdoor Safe Day Kids carnival scheduled in the parking lot. Most of the festive booths were hastily relocated into the Hospital`s mini convention center and its hallways. The BRC founder`s band was consigned, however, to perform outside in the brick car tunnel leading to the Hospital`s main entrance where recently installed metal drums, chimes, temple gongs, and rubber mallets awaited playful children visiting patients. Despite the forbidding and inclement weather, hundreds of parents braved the constant rainfall to bring their kids to the annual festival.
Challenged by the echoing din of mallet-hammered drums, chimes, and gongs, the undaunted Bluegrass pickers steadfastly played their almost inaudible music for the soggy festival goers. Where do you find generous musicians so devoted to performing at benefits for the Children`s Hospital?
“And yet, to say the truth, reason and love keep little company nowadays, ” spake Bottom (Shakespeare`s clown) in Midsummer Night`s Dream.
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