There was hardly a dull moment during the eight-hour Cultural Festival of the Angle Street Community Association (ASCA).And credit for the lively and colourful happenings goes to ASCA’s chairman, Government MP Dale Butler, and his highly imaginative executive of Angle Street adherents.Reunion was the theme of the festival, and the promoters pulled it together, rivalling in miniature features of the Bermuda Day Heritage Parade (without the floats). Hundreds turned out to enjoy the food and fellowship.Hamilton Town Crier Ed Christopher loudly set the stage at the official opening. There were choirs such as The Voices of Emmanuel Baptist Church with some deeply connected Angle Street members; and likewise youngsters in the Prospect Primary School Choral Group and the Mt Zion Male Voice Choir. June Caisey gave ‘The Spoken Word’, while Reuben McCoy did his vocals. Sandys Middle School Drumliners who, just like wide open spaces for their performances, adapted well to the cramped and crowded Angle Street, as did the Clearwater Middle School Drumline band and the young Bermuda National Drumline.When we thought we had seen and heard it all, then came Chewstick; the Shane Powell Dancers; the Filipino Dancers followed by the youth section of the Seabreeze Salsa Dancers and African Dancers.Helping to give effect to the old Angle Street saying that ’the best is saved for last,’ were The Elite Majorettes of the Ex-Artillery Men’s Association, and Hendrickson’s Gombeys. The Elites draw their distinctive characteristics from the fact that their dancers range in age, with the youngest being 44 and the oldest 68.Mr Butler brought on each act, and capitalised on every possible lull to cite how ‘back in the days’ of the first half of the 20th century, Angle Street was one of the social, cultural and commercial centres for Bermuda’s majority black populace.