A regular sunday afternoon drum festival at Parc Mt Royal, Montreal, Quebec.
“We would usually attract a crowd of about five professional dancers and a dozen spectators,” wrote Godfried Toussaint, one of the original drummers and now a McGill computer science professor, on his website. “One summer, all of a sudden thousands of people showed up. Most of them came to watch, hundreds to dance and dozens along with their instruments to join in the frenzy of drumming.” It has been 30 some years since.