One of the secondary pleasures of these long festival weekends are the peripheral activities that occur on the street outside of the official show schedules.

The sidewalk outside of Berbati’s Pan at S.W. second and Ankeny was the scene of one such spectacle Saturday night around 9 P.M. when a group of ninjas suddenly materialized from nowhere (you know, all super-stealthy and ninja-like) and played a two-song set of thrash metal performed with battery-operated amplifiers and what appeared to be a kid-sized drum set. Yes, ninjas in full ninja drag, playing metal. I am not making this up.

After frightening passers-by with their five minute hit and run musical attack, the ninja band threw all their gear into a van and immediately tore off into the night, leaving little more evidence of their rock-raid than still-reverberating eardrums and a slight smell of incense in the air. They may or may not be members of a local metal band named, no kidding, Ninja, but one thing’s for certain: their Kung Fu was very strong.

(As documented by Curt Schulz from The Oregonian)

(As documented by ARIS WALES from The Mercury)