STORY AND PHOTOS BY KAREN BOSSICK

BearSkinRug cut a rug on a busy Halloween night at The Argyros.

And the Wood River Orchestra surprised its audience at the Community Campus theater with the theme music to Alfred Hitchcock movies, aka Charles Gounod’s “Funeral March of a Marionette.”

The Argyros Halloween bash featuring music spun by DJ Rowdy and DJ BearSkinRug, featured gob-lins of fabulous costumes.

The Argyros was transformed for Halloween.

Among them: Nick Harman’s very three-dimensional costume in which he wore a picture of the White House and suited up in President Trump’s signature dark blue suit with red tie, while wearing a Trump mask and holding a large ball and chain above his head.

Wood River Orchestra members, meanwhile, saluted Dia de los Muertos by performing two mariachi tunes and “Remember Me” from the animated movie “Coco.”

The cello players affixed paper skulls to their cello, and two Wood River High School students performed along with the orchestra.

WRHS student Macario Sanchez Jr. performed on the vihuela—a small guitar tuned like a lute--with orchestra conductor Brad Hershey. And Adilene Montes, a senior and member of the high school’s Colla Voce singing troupe, sang the very sad lament, “La Llorona,”  with the orchestra’s trombone player Andrew Schiers, who also sings in the Caritas Chorale.

Brad Hershey and Wood River High School senior Macario Sanchez Jr. performed mariachi music with the orchestra.

Cellists affixed paper skulls in the tradition of Dia de los Muertos to their instruments.

Wood River High School senior Adilene Montes sang a duet about grieving and loss with orchestra trombone player Andrew Schiers.