Porcine lovers filed into the Morgan Avenue studios this past Sunday in search of free Colt 45s, pork, rice, beans and Mexi slaw at 3rd Ward’s Second Annual Pig Roast & Dance Party. The 195-pound pig—prepared by cult butcher Tom Mylan and chef Eric Sherman of Marlow & Sons—was in such demand, an hour-long line wrapped through the courtyard, back into the building, down a hallway and into the main lobby.
Bluesy punk rockers Shilpa Ray & Her Happy Hookers kept everyone’s minds off their growling stomachs with their high-energy set prior to the food’s arrival, followed by Brooklyn rock band In Cadeo, who hasn’t had much luck avoiding the rain this summer. In Cadeo’s last three gigs have ended in downpours and yesterday’s show was no different: The heavens opened at the end of their first song, forcing the crowd of hungry masses to wait out the storm, drinking spiked lemonades blended by Artistic Evolution until their voracious appetites were, at long last, sated with $3 plates of pork taco. Pig power.
