![]() ![]() ![]() To test “run” your costume for Saturday night, Rumpus will have the “Wild RUNpus” 5K Race and Fun Run for kids on Saturday morning. ![]() Regular tickets are $17 in advance, with options for reserved tables and a VIP suite, according to the Wild Rumpus website. Tickets can be purchased at the door for $15 if you’re dressed in your Halloween-spirited costume. Tickets for the kickoff party are $15 online with the code RUMPUS. Doors open at 6 p.m., and music from Unknown Hinson and Burns Like Fire begins at 8. The Rumpus will also hold its official kickoff party Friday, Oct. The red-colored brew is made with passion fruit, cocoa nibs, hibiscus and lactose. This year, Creature Comforts will add an exclusive release to the rally: the Wild Rumpus 10th anniversary commemorative Dracula’s Blood Transylvania weiss beer. Two local bands, Monsoon and Partials, are scheduled to perform at the rally. If you’re ready for some more partying before the parade, Wild Rumpus will also hold the Rumpus Rally from 6–8:30 p.m. Admission to the ball will be $10 per person. Conley says this is the time to “really show off your costumes.” Linqua Franqa (aka Athens-Clarke County Commissioner Mariah Parker) will open the show before the Ladies of LCD Soundsystem take the stage. In addition to the music, Wild Rumpus will also offer hotel packages with Hotel Indigo, Graduate Athens and the Georgia Gameday Center for out-of-town visitors.įollowing the parade, Wild Rumpus will host the Royal Rumpus Ball at the Georgia Theatre. Wild Rumpus received a $10,000 state grant to develop the music festival aspect of the event. “We put our heads together to see what more we could do to make Athens even more awesome,” Conley says. 27 on West Hancock Avenue at Pulaski Street.Ĭonley teamed up with the Athens Downtown Development Authority after the Georgia Department of Economic Development did a study on bringing more tourism into the city and decided to add more music to the festivities. In addition, there will be actual flamethrowers, aerialist performers and the Athens Burn Consortium twirling lighted torches on the parade line before arriving at City Hall for the Rumpusland Party, where partiers can “dance like a wild thing,” Conley says. Performers during the parade will include Calico Vision, Cabbage Looper, El Chupaskabra, Fever’s Jam Party, Squalle, White Rabbit Collective, Family Recipe, Thrüm and The Flamethrowers. Though several traditions still stand, this year, Conley says to expect more of a music festival vibe with Athens bands playing from the sidelines. “Ten years later, the principle is still the same: Get together, wear a costume, and you get into the parade,” Conley says. Now, the Wild Rumpus has become “an Athens institution” and a full-on weekend event with upwards of 10,000 people expected to participate. ![]() In 2009, Conley started the Wild Rumpus as a Halloween parade-“a few hundred Athenians on a cold and rainy night dressed up in homemade costumes,” Conley says. “This will be the first year where UGA students can really participate because there’s no Georgia-Florida game this weekend.”Ĭonley says to remember: “Meet at 7pm, march at 7:30pm…it’s going to be big.”Īll proceeds benefit Nuci’s Space.For the 10th year, Athens artist and musician Timi Conley will dress up in his usual costume as Max from Where the Wild Things Are and lead thousands of high-spirited, dressed-up partygoers on a winding trail through downtown Athens. This year he’s expecting the biggest crowd yet. There’s a lot of creativity…and we like to party.” “People don’t grow up here, and they like to have fun. There was a giant chinese dragon with like five people operating it.”Ĭonley says the inspiration for the parade comes from Athens itself. “You see everything from Teletubbies, to trolls, to giant robots…a friend of mine always does a paper mache head that’s 12 feet tall. Master of Ceremonies Timi Conley says the costumes get crazier every year. From there, a zombie drumline will lead you around the parade route. The parade is open to anyone or anything who wants to participate.Īll you have to do to join the Wild Rumpus Parade is meet on the corner of Pulaski Street and Clayton Street at 7:00pm this Saturday. It’s called the WIld Rumpus Parade and Spectacle, an Athens Halloween tradition for five years running. In four days, these streets will be full of monsters and mayhem. Athens, Ga–Downtown Athens may be quiet today…but something is coming. ![]()
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