Rio-style samba group VamoLá at the Fremont Solstice Parade in 2024.
Maque daVis didn’t intend to be part of the inaugural Fremont Solstice Parade in 1989. But there he was, designs painted on his chest, piloting an Egyptian barge alongside costumed artists through Fremont’s streets.
The day prior, he had visited the Fremont Arts Council warehouse on a whim, and parade cofounder Peter Toms promptly put him to work. Toms and fellow Santa Barbara transplant Barbara Luecke missed the artistic solstice celebration they’d each left behind in California. But the Seattle of the late 1980s was a place where they knew they could create their own version. The
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