Oí! There have been a few concerts in Jeri, never much advertised and not too large of crowds. This weekend however there has been a huge festival here in Jeri. In fact, it´s the annual Jeri Sport Music Festival. They set up a mammoth stage, drew in a crowd and cranked up the volume.
On friday morning there were kitesurf and windsurf downwinders from Pria to Jeri. The wind was so extremely light, no one else was on the water. We watched the kiters race in, I was slightly impressed none of them got their lines crossed because about 10 of them came blitzing in at the same time to one little strech of beach. We didn´t see the windsurfers come in, and haven´t heard of who won so I get the feeling the wind was too light for the windsurf race.
Since the wind has been so light, we didn't feel so bad if we stayed out late. Which was a good thing because the bands definitly were running on Brazilian time. Each night the main act which was alway schedualed to start at 10:00 p.m. began a little later. On Thursday it was a 10:30 start (not too bad), 11:30 on Friday (little bit on a wait) and on Saturday the band didn´t roll on the the stage until midnight. The concerts have attracted a huge crowd. I didn't know there were so many people in Jeri, although I think a lot of people have come in for the festival. I'd say on average there is between 2-3 thousand people having their ear drums pounded each night. We found the music a bit too loud standing up close, especially when you don't know the lyrics and when you don´t know when the songs volume´is going to amplify. So we usually wandered to the beach to sit, listen and relax. Although I did enjoy standing in the crowd when everyone was singing along to the songs, it really made you feel a part of everything to bob your head along with them.
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