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Lake Merritt Boombox Dance Party

Annual outdoor decentralized roaming disco at five different locations
By - posted 5/16/2015 No Comment

Ecstatic Dance East Bay celebrates its anniversary with boombox support from the Decentralized Dance Party to make you dance, sweat and let loose all around Lake Merritt – yes, at five different locations, switching up every hour.

Ecstatic’s 7 Year Anniversary Dance Party
Sunday, May 17, 2015 | 2-7 pm
All around Lake Merritt, Oakland
FREE (donations welcome)

They will be playing music from a small powered FM transmitter to the 30 or so boomboxes gifted from Decentralized Dance Party. If you have your own BoomBox (or Ghetto Blaster / Walkman / Solar Powered Radio) that can play music from the FM dial, please bring them. Their DJs will spinning live and on the move around the lake on their phones and tablets.

2015 Traveling Dance Party Schedule:

  • 2 pm: Picnic at the Fairyland sign
  • 3 pm: Fairyland
  • 4 pm: Gazebo
  • 5 pm: Band Stand
  • 6 pm: Peralta Park
  • 7 pm: return to Fairyland

Times are approximate. Check Twitter @EcstaticDance to keep up with them.

Bring blankets, hoops, goodies, non-alcoholic beverages, sun shades, sunscreen, layers and your dancing self for a day of friends, dance, and play.