Dillo Day
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Dillo Day is an annual festival at Northwestern University which takes place on the Saturday after classes end, shortly after Memorial Day. Begun in 1972, and organized by the Mayfest student group, the day is characterized by an all-day concert and performance events on the Northwestern Lakefill, as well as a spirit of revelry and indulgence.
Headlining bands for 2008 include Third Eye Blind and Common. The complete lineup included:
- A DJ set by Northwestern University alumnus William Butler, member of Arcade Fire
- Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
- A DJ set by Flosstradamus
- Broken Social Scene
- The Cool Kids
Past headlining bands include The Roots, Cake, and Lupe Fiasco in 2007, and Robert Randolph and the Family Band and Ben Folds in 2006. Performers from previous years include George Clinton, Yellowman, Third World, The Wailers, The Crystal Method, Outkast, and Bela Fleck and the Flecktones.
In a nod to the school's "Midwestern Ivy League" [1] reputation, some call it the only day of the year that the university resembles a state school.[1] Jay Pridmore writes, "'Dillo Day was an exultation of music and art, a moment 'when the freaks come out and mingle with the preppies,' as the Daily put it. Freedom from authority was key: The chief of the Northwestern police force was the star attraction in a dunking booth in 1974." He quotes Daily Northwestern columnist Kathy Castillon in 1988, "Armadillo Day is the one time many future-minded career-conscious yuppies-in-training throw caution (and the results of future drug tests) to the wind and live for the moment."[2]
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- ^ Task Force Stresses Student Safety for Dillo Day. Retrieved on 2007-05-27.
- ^ Jay Pridmore, Northwestern University: Celebrating 150 Years (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2000) p. 247.
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