Detroit Electronic Music Festival 2000 Not only was this
festival free, not to mention kick ass, it broke a record for
the largest free music festival of it's kind in the world
(according to Liz Copeland, festival speaker and Detroit radio
DJ}. The attendance was listed at 900,000 people for 3 days. The
crowd was mixed between all types of classes, races, ages and
social groups. The preformers were simply incredible. Detroit's
founding fathers of techno preformed to a crowd so massive and
joyfull that you could not help but be swept away into the group
mind. Several times as the last acts of the festival played
(Richie Hawkin and Derrick May) I heard several people exclaim,
"This is the greatest fucking night of my life". Not one episode
of violence marred this festival, at least as far as I was
aware.  So of the highlights of the festival to me, besides the
more popular preformers were... Finally getting to see DJ Spooky
(even if the crowd wasn't as ecstatic as me) Seeing this awesome
kid who must have been