5:51 pm, September 15, 2015
Last week’s jubilant concert and parade by the Extraordinary Rendition Band certainly reinforced Best Fest’s title as, well, the Best Fest. Some, seeing the joyfully unrestrained band in action for the first time, were delighted to see Oak Bluffs’ downtown area so alive so soon after the season’s traditional Labor Day ending. The finale at the Strand was every bit as magical, harkening back to postcards of old, when marching bands were depicted on Oak Bluffs avenue near the Dreamland Casino and the Flying Horses at the center of town at Farland Square.