USA TODAY/By Rick Jervis
Photo by Jeff Hahne
Photo by Jeff Hahne
NEW ORLEANS - Fairies danced with evil clowns, rock stars roiled seas of fans and zombies gathered en masse at the music-festival-slash-freak
The outdoor three-day, five-stage art and music festival, known as Voodoo Fest, kicked off Friday with an open-air dance party. Torrential rains drenched spectators. But several thousand shouldered the cold, wet weather.
Halloween Saturday drew thousands of costumed spectators, eager to watch headliner KISS. Fans wandered the fairgrounds dressed as pirates, goblins, Smurfs, saints, devils, giant beer cans, oversized chickens - and zombies. Lots and lots of zombies. Festival organizers called on spectators to try to break the Guinness Book of World Records mark for Largest Gathering of Zombies. The number to beat: 4,026, set in England.
"It doesn't get any better than this," said Angie Beall, 29, of Bay St. Louis, Miss., who was dressed as a 19th-century, blood-spattered zombie. "Halloween weekend and KISS."
KISS, their face covered in signature grease paint and dressed in full costume, down to 10-inch-high platform boots, thrilled the crowd with plumes of onstage fire, a massive fireworks display and rock anthems Rock and Roll All Nite and Detroit Rock City.
