Get ready for a baroque hoedown: the classic Main Street Electrical Parade returns to Disneyland on August 2 for eight weeks of nightly shows.
in 1972, is the theme park parade by which all others are measured—for better and worse. The legendary spectacle celebrates some of Disney’s most beloved characters with hundreds of thousands of lights with retrofuturistic synth music straight from the ‘60s and ‘70s. If you grew up going to Disney parks, the music and visuals are probably seared into your memory, making this parade almost as crucial a piece of Disney nostalgia as some of the company’s other iconic theme park originals.
If you’re too young to have experienced the parade before, or just never happened to catch it somehow, you’ll have another chance atlater this summer. Disney’s bringing the whole crew out of retirement for one more rodeo, and will be running the parade throughout Disneyland every night between Aug. 2 and Sept. 30. It’s not the technological marvel that some of Disney’s more recent parades have been, but it’s got heart, and frankly modern technology’s overrated anyway.
If you’re at all interested in the history of electronic music, you might dig this parade even if you don’t care about Disney. Again, the classic score that was used from the ‘70s up until 2009 was composed entirely on vintage electronic instruments, from a Moog Model III and Mini-Moog, to a Sequential Circuits Prophet-5, to a Roland MKS-80 Super Jupiter.
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