Win Tickets to Harmony Festival

The Coachella of Wine Country arrives this weekend with Harmony Festival, a three-day bash featuring Michael Franti and Spearhead, the Flaming Lips, Primus, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, and more. Find out how to win a pair of tickets after the jump.

Leave a comment with your most memorable music festival experience for a chance to win two tickets for one day at the festival. The winner will be selected by noon on Wednesday.

In addition to three days of music, the festival at Sonoma County Fairgrounds in Santa Rosa, June 10-12, features a full lineup of speakers, side stages with various attractions, and on-site camping. Visit the Harmony Festival website for more details.

(Photo credit: Courtesy of Harmony Festival, by Brandon Miller)

Comments

  1. We have selected a winner. THANK YOU for the great stories, and check back soon for more giveaways.

    Matt

    1. who won the tickets if you don’t mind the curiosity? Happy Harmony to all!

      1. Joe P was the lucky winner. Thanks!

  2. What happened in the field all those years ago… Blissfest ’05!!

  3. ive attended many harmony festivals im 18 and ilve in santa rosa but last year with Damian Marley in SANTA ROSA!.. that was an unforgettable experience,. and expendables were amazing too

  4. I’ve been to over a hundred festivals, loving the chance to dance around sampling bands I haven’t seen & returning to ole favorites! Top ten fest experiences:
    10) reconnecting w friends in Pavement & meeting Mick Jones (Clash, Gorillaz) backstage Coachella two years ago. Tinariwen!
    9) hearing Arcade Fire explode & enrapture at Austin City Limits (ran into Lippy, owner of Magic Bus Records, exiled from N’awlins post Katrina)
    8) Flaming Lips: late night Bonnaroo (Soft Bulletin/Yoshimi)
    7) getting a massage, feeling very high while hearing Ryan Adams cover Grateful Dead’s “Loser” at Lollapallooza
    6) riding a ferris wheel, swooning with an amazing girl on a perfect day at Treasure Island fest
    5) hearing Furthur play six complete Grateful Dead albums, plus Hot Tuna acoustic “Dark Hollow” tiny stage at Furthurfest last memorial weekend
    4) the sublime Ali Farke Toure with Ry Cooder, Nawlins Jazzfest ’94
    3) Bonnaroo “Superjam”: Herbie Hancock, ?Love, Pino Pallindino & African guitarist. Also, Dr.John w Missippippi All-Star Luther & Mike Gordon
    2) Phish w Bruce Springsteen down front, fireworks afterwards/Bruce’s Seeger Sessions Jazzfest set: poignant beyond words, hardened men misty-eyed
    1) meeting Bob Dylan unexpectedly at Jazzfest 6 years ago & being cogent enough to have a conversation, expressing what a huge inspiration he’s had on my life. (he did a powerful post-Katrina set including “Watching the River Flow”)

  5. Abanya Nguebari June 8, 2011 at 12:44 am

    I have been attending The Health and Harmony festival sence i was a young child. It was always an amazing experience, But my most memorable time there was about three years ago when Damian Marley was there as one of the main attractions. That year I decided to volunteer, they just so happen to put me at the mainstage working backstage. During the day I got to meet Danny Glover and had an amazing convetsation and I helped him take pictures of him and his grandson, Later When Damian Marley performed I got the chance to get on the stage and have blast dancing!! I would love to get to go to harmony again and be able to take mom to this special event as a surprise for her birthday sence she was the one who introduced me to the harmony festival 20 years ago.

  6. My most memorable music festival happened about 40 years ago. Yes, I’m (almost) an old lady.

    The festival was called Vortex, and it was held at McIver Park a few miles outside of Portland, Or. in Estacada. The reason for the festival was to help keep the city of Portland calm during an American Legion convention during those turbulent Viet Nam War years. Woodstock had been the summer before, and the then governor of OR (Tom McCall)realized what a great event it had been — such a huge group of people who listened to music and celebrated without any murders or general mayhem. He’d bring the same thing to Oregon during a time when general mayhem was a very real possibility in Portland. What a brilliant idea: have a music festival to keep the peace. What a concept!!

    My daughter was about 3 at the time and too small to see over the crowds, so I carried her on my shoulders a lot of the time. She was so happy!!! She sang and crowed along with everyone else. And we all got soaking wet from the ubiquitous Oregon rain. Lots of people sat in lines under long streams of unrolled black plastic during the heaviest downpours. When it wasn’t raining so hard, everyone slogged around in the mud. And they sang and rocked out, passed around food and “whatnot,” helped each other stay on their feet in the quagmire, went down to the Clackamas River to wash off the mud — and maybe do a bit of skinny dipping, though it seemed way too chilly.

    The music!! It went on and on from early morning until far into the night. So much music! So many people singing and dancing! In the vernacular of that day: What a trip!

    And now, even though I’m on the verge of creakiness, I’m still a big fan of great music. And I love Michael Franti — his message and his music — and would be delighted to be able take my “old man” to go see him at this festival.

  7. Jennifer C Mark June 7, 2011 at 5:44 pm

    Most memorable moment was at Coachella a couple years ago, sitting about 60ft in the air on bamboo poles working on a 90ft high fire shooting bamboo art sculpture when Paul McCartney’s voice floated across the field a day before the festival opening as he was doing his sound ck on the main stage. Only about 20 or so people were around & I had a birdeye view listening to his voice out in the desert right before sunset… magical.

  8. When my girlfriend of 8 years and I first began courting…we were suppose to meet up at a music festival. We arranged to meet right outside the front gates. I met up with our other friends but she was no where to be found. (This was before we had cellphones) We went into the show anyways, and after worrying through the first act(since she is always so punctual), we eventually decided to head back to the concession area to see if we could find her there. Out of nowhere she comes up sweaty with her hair messed up and proceeds to tell me she was dressed up as the blue cookie monster on stage dancing next to the Flaming Lips the whole time. Apparently while the show was going on she was trying to signal me over and over again by flashing high powered flashlights into my eyes from across the stage. So not only was I worried that I couldn’t find her, but I was annoyed by the jerk on stage who was blinding me. Now my only fear is winning these Harmony Festival tickets, as she might run off with Wayne Cohen again and leave me behind.

  9. Madonna on Oakland. Fabtubulous show, and many Madonna wanna bees. :)

  10. Priscilla Varela June 7, 2011 at 4:45 pm

    I am proudly from San Francisco:) I have been so blessed to have had experienced almost every type of music, art, and dance festival there is. One that I will never forget was Love Fest 2008…the day I turned 21. I danced to the music without a care in the world. Its right up there with WAR, yes WAR! performing amazingly at Carnaval as a young teen, and Brenton Wood singing OOgum Boogum at Portrero Del Sol Park (formaly La Raza Park when I was the rightful age of 8:)So this brings me to the Harmony Festival, which I will be honored to be able to add to my musical memories.

  11. handsel meese June 7, 2011 at 4:36 pm

    I have never been to a festival and neither has my daughter. I would love the chance to go and take her. I have been to some small, outdoor, bluegrass gatherings in Alaska. This looks like the best festival ever because it addresses spirituality, physical health and it features my 2 favorites…Micheal Franti and the Flaming Lips!!! I had planned to go originally, but the finances wouldn’t let me.

  12. Most memorable festival experience? That’s a tough-y, but I’d have to say last year’s Harmony Festival. Michael Franti kicked butt on stage, Rebelution sounded even better live than they do on their album, and not to mention Slightly Stoopid did TWO sets. I got to be a part of the Techno Tribal crew which was really cool, because I felt like I really helped and made a difference in everyone’s TT experience. By the end of the three days, I learned that my favorite thing to do is to spend time in the sun at music festivals, and I also learned that bringing a spray bottle was the best idea ever!

  13. I remember watching the sun rise up in the sky and set during the all day Rock The Bells show in the Giants parking lot. Every time I looked up, the sun was somewhere different, hitting a different part of my body and causing me to persperate

  14. hands down reggae on the river 2006. had just graduated high school, went with my 4 best friends and experienced the greatest sound of live music ever. Michael franti was there played Sunday and I have tried to go to every show he has around here since that reggae on the river. moving up into a huge crowd then looking behind you to see hundreds upon hundreds of others singing and dancing together is what I’m looking forward to harmony which will be much like that reggae

  15. “You can bomb the world to pieces, but you can’t bomb the world to Peace,” Michael Franti. The great Poetry Man of culture fusing families with the heart mind, great appreciation out to him. First time I saw Michael was at the Legend Valley Festival last Spring in Ohio. Everything was everything and there was not a moment missing where I thought I was needing something. Having been there as a GlassMaker, each piece held a special moment for hope, joy, peace, comraderie, and wonder of the One Love. Franti and Spearhead jumped into the booth and broke it down beat by beat with the drum vibrations. Many people woke up those days and the heart for Mother Earth was heard. Who could ask for anything more?

  16. Growing up in a small town listening to punk and rock when everyone else was listening to country made me feel a bit isolated until I experienced Vans Warped Tour in O3’. Band merch, moshpits, crowd surfing, and pretty much every band that I worshipped at the time in one spot was my version of Disneyland, the happiest place on earth. I did not just see my favorite band Motion City Soundtrack; I got to crowd surf, for my first time, to the very front. It was at this festival where I met my future concert buddies, learned about new bands, and had my album signed by Justin Pierre from Motion City. At festivals such as Vans Warped Tour, mutual music appreciation between listeners and artists creates a community where anything is possible and love is the common denominator.

  17. Deadmau5 at Ultra 2011!

  18. DAFT PUNK at Vegoose! I had no idea of how explosive of a show they put on.

  19. Susan McDowell June 7, 2011 at 2:19 pm

    Years ago I was driving in the middle of the night through the middle of nowhere up in Maine with a group of crazy friends. We ran out of gas and had to walk over 10 miles until we came across a place to fill our can. Back on the road but bleary eyed and sleep deprived, we pulled over around dawn at some little cafe. After breakfast, everyone headed back to the car to crash for a few hours, but I needed to be outside so I walked waaaaaaay out into an empty field where I laid down and fell into a deep sleep. Hours later, I woke to find myself in the middle of a crowd of hundreds of people who were all attending a Noel Paul Stooky concert. Somehow, a stage had been set up, sound check performed, crowds gathered and set out their chairs and blankets while their kids ran all around me, and a concert began without my having had the slightest idea any of it was happening. Maybe not the best concert I ever attended, but definitely the most surreal.

    1. Anthony Culmer June 8, 2011 at 10:50 pm

      epic story!

  20. FLEA and Thom Yorke.. Coachella 2010.. the best thing I have been to since than and before than!

  21. Last year at Outside Lands when someone in the crowd was heckling Al Green. He heard them and threatened to jump the fence. Warning him that he’s a bad mofo from Detroit. Needless to say, they didn’t say anything to him for the rest of the show. It was golden.

  22. Volunteering on the clean-up crew for discount tickets to see MGMT and Brazilian Girls at Treasure Island 2009 and wishing I had done the same for the Flaming Lips the next day!

  23. I’ve yet to experience a Health & Harmony Fest….as I’m visiting my sister who lives in the bay area with my family from small town Michigan…..and well the mitten state does not have it going on in the awesome festival department. WOW! Being able to see & hear Grace Potter & the Nocturnals, whom I’m in love with, along with so many amazing artist lineup, Primus, Michael Franti & Spearhead, G. Love, would be the icing on the cake and make this the best trip I’m sure to take all summer.

    I guess my most memorable festival might be Woodstock 94 in Saugerties NY. While it was no Woodstock 69 I’m pretty sure, it may have been pretty close for our generation minus the “brown acid”. Camping and making such a sweet community of freinds, 350,000 happy hippy’s mudding it up from one stage to stage and it being way to take your shoes off muddy for me to make to see The Band with Bob Weir, naked people, O the naked and their mud slides, yet everyone around was smiling and enjoying life, the mud and the music. It was awesome! Seeing, Blind Melon,Violent Femmes,Collective Soul,Red Hot Chili Pepper’s,Deee-Lite,Nine Inch Nails,Porno for Pyros & Primus with Jerry Cantrell. I saw so much music in 3 days this list could go on and on! I remember that the vender food was god awful and super expensive and if it were not for the 3 day community I made while camping I may have not ate with out them. This was such a memorable time of my life and so happy to have been a part of it and a memory to share. Thank you SF Station for letting me share it. May it be a 1st time trip to Sonoma County and experience Harmony Festival and another festival memory to share and pass on. 3~`

    1. nice dude! I was there two…crazy days

  24. I saw the flaming lips and touched the space bubble nothin compares to seeing the flaming liPs for me ! Nothing!!!!

  25. I’ve yet to experience a Health & Harmony Fest….as I’m visiting the lovely bay area with my family from small town Michigan…..and well the mitten state does not have it going on in the awesome festival department. Being able to see & hear Grace Potter & the Nocturnals live whom I’m in love with along with so many amazing artist lineup, Primus, Michael Franti & Spearhead, G. Love, would be the icing on the cake and make this the best trip I’m sure to take all summer.

    I guess my most memorable festival might be Woodstock 94 in Saugerties NY. While it was no Woodstock 69 I’m pretty sure, it was may have been pretty close for our generation minus the “brown acid”. Camping and making such a sweet community of freinds, 350,000 happy hippy’s mudding it up from one stage to stage and it being to muddy to try to make it to see Bob Weir, naked people,naked mud slides, yet every one was was happy as can be. It was awesome! Seeing Blind Melon,Violent Femmes,Collective Soul,The Band,Deee-Lite,Nine Inch Nails,Porno for Pyros ooo and Primus with Jerry Cantrel I remember the festival food being the worst and most expencive food I’ve ever it was a memory I will always charish and happy I was there to experience it. So many amazing artist in 3 short days. Blind Mellon

  26. Courtney Parks June 7, 2011 at 9:32 am

    Last year at HARMONY FEST!! was pretty amazing! Seeing Steel Pulse 3 TIMES! Watching them jam with slightly stoopid! But most of all setting up camp and being in the cow palace and listening to Zappa come on right at our tent was going up! We finished our set up, grabbed our drinks and went right in to dance and sing along Zappa and didnt make it back to our tent til 4 in the morning. Pure Bliss.

  27. Julian Balestrieri June 6, 2011 at 11:57 pm

    The greatest thing about a festival experience is really being able to connect with people around you through music, no matter how different. I truly realized this when I went to see “The Big 4”, Anthrax, Megadeth, Slayer, and Metallica. Taking place in the deserted ground of Coachella, I got to understand how eclectic fans of such an unique subculture could be. From the man operating the ferris wheel, to the girl making vegan corn dogs everyone has a common love. I enjoy this connection immensely and can’t wait to experience the same at The Harmony Festival!

  28. Health n Harmony Fest circa 1990 I’m pretty sure it was… LOL enJOYed Pride & Joy and the cracking open of my spirituality and BLisSinGs of meeting such healers and dancers and joyous people!!!

  29. My most memorable festival would definitely have to be last years health and harmony 2010.. The line up was so amazing! Lauren hill, steel pluse, the expendables, Zion I, slightly stoopid and rebelution! All of My favorites in one place.. I also got to experience many artists that I had never heard before and that was the best part :) Everyone who came on stage rocked the crowd and it was definitely a weekend I will never forget.. I hope to win these tickets so I can attend this year. Health and harmony is one festival that I would hate to miss! Xo

  30. not to mention the stage, the music got my body talking

  31. Bridget Riley June 6, 2011 at 9:33 pm

    I know I’m not alone when I say my older sibling is the one who first got me into music — real music. The kind of music that unlocks something within, that drugged-out, floating, blood-pumping, head throbbing feeling. You know, the kind of music that draws thousands to festivals. My sister became not only my teacher but my show buddy, despite me being 6 years her junior. In 2008, we flew cross-country to the Sasquatch Festival in Washington — she from New York, I from Florida. Every festival ritual gained new significance in her company, from putting up the tent to standing in line for the portaloo. We frolicked to Fleet Floxes, rocked out to M.I.A. and even made it onstage with the Flaming Lips on closing night. We donned Teletubbies costumes and danced the night away. I looked out the crowd, seeing all the people brought together by music, and couldn’t helped but be humbled that the only person I’d want to experience this with was the same person who had been there for me all my life.

  32. Last year I was desperate to get into day one of Treasure Island but didn’t have a ticket. I went to the ballpark and talked to a few scalpers–they were selling for almost $200. I went to the island to try my luck there. I stood with a couple of friends on the edge of the line, holding three $20’s to try to get people’s attention.

    A teenage guy called me over. He said Ticketmaster had printed him an extra ticket. This didn’t sound like the Ticketmaster I knew, but I was desperate. So I followed him to the front gate. He finally handed me the ticket feet in front of the entrance. I looked at it, and it said “U2.”

    He had printed U2 tickets. So not only was I not going to make it in–he couldn’t either. I went home and sulked. I ended up having a great time the next day, when people were practically giving tickets because of the rain–the right tickets, that time.

  33. As a neighbor of the Santa Rosa Fair grounds, I’ve attended almost every Harmony and Health and harmony fest for probably the past 25 years! It is a blur of memories. I have loved it year after year. Started having kids 23 years ago, and I remember the baby stroller packed to the gills with snacks and blankets and changes of clothes – always loving to dance up close to the main stage. Memories I have of dancing with all my friends to Pride and Joy at the end of a day(before the days of SUPER BIG headliners); also the year we were planning to do the United Africa Fest across the street at the Vets hall for an evening event after the fest was over because we’d not seen anything about techno tribal yet that year; we then were asked to give it up to the festival so they could have techno tribal there. Then they gave us a really fair trade of having some of our performers perform there, they gave us a booth for the non profit and several passes to come in. We gave it up in the spirit of community even though we could’ve been hard nosed capitalists and kept our date at the Vets making money off all the Harmony fest people.

  34. There have been many, but most awesome had to be the tribute to Bill Graham in Golden Gate Park. I remember running to the field with my young friends just out of high school, and entering the crowd as John Fogerty played…so exciting! We were late but still had a beautiful day dancing in the sun paying tribute to the man.

  35. my most memorable moment was last year at harmony fest and it was latenight and me and all my homies were shreddin the mini ramp and it was just a few of us be we entertained a whole crowd for a few hours just taking turns steppin it up and blavin a hast i really really hope that ramp is there this year !

  36. My most memorable festival experience was funny enough Ozzfest 1999! I was 10 years old and completely enamored by the enthusiastic and riotous crowds and music of monumental bands such as black sabbath, primus, and rob zombie! It was an experience that I have engraved in my young memory and most definilty jump started my personal music appreciation and education! Today I am still just as enthusiastic to experience the high energy and creativity of festivals! It has been many years that I have desired to visit the Harmony Festival but life circustances have not allowed it. Until now I hope, it seems perfect to attend at a time our famous bay area group Primas will be playing, and of which I haven’t seen since that memorable experience at Ozzfest! I would be overjoyed to revive tickets to harmony festival and thank you so much for presenting the opportunity to us!
    From my heart,
    Cassandra

  37. Reggae on the River 2002. Backstage with some of the Marley kids and Sean Paul. Amazing.

  38. This is my first year, I live in MI and on a whim decided to go to CA for this event! I am so excited and with reading all the comments above I know I will have many memories to come.

  39. Man, my first High Sierra was off the hook! A great induction to the world of

    FEST-I-VALS! Can’t wait for Harmony, now a family tradition!!!

  40. Harmony several years back watching George Clinton! Cannot wait to go back and see the Flaming Lips!!!

  41. Peak concert experiences. David Bowie Ziggy stardust tour, Cleveland, 1972.Keith jarrett, solo piano in Boston Symphony Hall. Prince, purple rain tour, 1989? Bonnie Raitt in a converted roller rink in Masquamicutt RI in 1990. Rolling Stones, pac Bell park. 2001? Indie Arie, fillmore, 2005? Radiohead, 2009 outsidelands, SF.

  42. Watching my favorite band, Lotus, play a non-stop, epic 3 hour set on the pool deck of Jam Cruise – under the stars on the Caribbean Sea… I danced & smiled through the whole set. It was completely blissful & a dream come true!

  43. Harmony 2005, I think. The Everyone Orchestra with a church choir on Sunday Morning. There for a few minutes it was the best music i ever heard. Absolutely perfect music, at the perfect time, on a perfect day at the perfect festival.

    I haven’t missed a Harmony Festival since.

  44. Hannah Reiter June 6, 2011 at 7:39 pm

    you know when your not sure if your on earth anymore? like you ask yourself,”is this heaven? could this really be real?” Well i experienced this at Harmony last year! it was def ze best eva! i love that it is so local and takes on the free and beautiful spirit of sonoma county. i had gone to harmony a couple times before, but last year i camped for the first time and got to experience the festivities 24/7. loved it!

  45. I will never forget when back then in 2004 it was called Reggae on the River instead of Reggae Rising 2 days before the festival i was at the sonoma county fair and i bought a wristband for unlimited rides. Well when i got to reggae on the river my cousin and i discovered the wristbands we got at the fair were the same color as the “VIP” wristbands to go in a special area directly in front of the stage. So we flashed our wristbands from the fair and got to go front in center of the stage for michael franti and ziggy marley, and when michael franti was performing he asked my cousin to come up on stage and dance! it was an amazing experience i will never forget ;]

  46. My most memorable festival was Health and Harmony sometime in the late 90s. That year the city of Santa Cruz passed a ordinance that women need not wear shirts in public. I worked at a food booth (based out of Santa Cruz) selling burritos with 3 other topless hippie chicks! Those were the days… <3

  47. I would say that my most memorable experience at a music festival was the one that I COULDN’T go to. Well, that’s somewhat of a disambiguation, as my wife and I were inside the Summerfest grounds for a few hours, sitting on the rocks by the bay with some local hippie bands playing the nearest stage, when she grabbed my arm and told me in no uncertain terms “We have to go to the hospital NOW!”

    You see, she was eight and a half months pregnant, and to make a long story short, my son was sleeping in my arms later that day.

    I’ll never forget it.

  48. Earthdance, Blackoak Ranch. Michael Franti’s 1st time there. AMAZING!!! Dance ’til your feet hurt!! MF&SH did us just fine.

  49. Connor Barclay June 6, 2011 at 7:28 pm

    last year at the harmony festival! i was 16 and i saw my two favorite bands Rebelution and Slightly stoopid. I saw Slightly stoopid play their acoustic and as a fellow musician it was incredible!

  50. Receiving an Integrated Awareness healing while listening to Matisyahu jam on the main stage behind me :)

  51. Favorite festival memory would have to be seeing Rubblebucket at Sierra Nevada World Music Festival in 2010. They played the closing set on the smaller stage sunday night, and most everyone was at the main stage to see Barington Levy, but boy were they missing out on the most amazing performance ever!!! I danced my ass off, wanted to go grab my friends from the main stage but I didn’t want to miss a minute of Rubblebucket’s mind-blowing booty-shakin’ performance. If you ever have a chance to see them, take it!

  52. I had plans for a country music festival Shoreline last summer with friends. I had been having kidney pain that sucked, but was bearable. The morning of the festival I woke up in so much pain I was totally nauseas. Finally I was able to hold some food and figured I could lay in bed at my friends place of I could lie on the lawn and listen to music. I drove to Shoreline and hung with my friends basking in the sun. Can’t believe I went to the festival passing a kidney stone, but between pain killers, sunshine, and good music I actually enjoyed the day.

  53. Katy Gallagher June 6, 2011 at 7:09 pm

    Outside Lands 2009!!! So many great bands, amazing atmosphere wonderful people, and Dave Matthews Band!

  54. Here’s the text of the Xingolati essay…. some guy was wrapping sausages up like gifts and leaving them all over the place. then there was the dead guy. That was funny.

    http://www.edternet.com/unclefishbits/2005/11/23/it-wasnt-just-that-someone-meticulously-wrapped-sausages-it-is-the-whole-xingolatian-thing/

    I have a photo album somewhere around here….

  55. I think my most memorable festival experience was Bobolink Bluegrass and Dubstep Festival in Belden Town… the lineup included Beats Antique, Random Rab, ill.gates, heyoka, mimosa, vibesquad, lynx and janover, and so many other electronic and Bluegrass live acts!

  56. David Bowie, day on the green, Oakland coliseum, 1983! Blows all this other crap away!

  57. My most memorable festival experience was at Watkins Glen in the 70s. After the festival I hitched a ride out of the crowd on a friend’s vendor food truck and then camped next to a gorgeous waterfall for 2 days with a few friends. I’d love to win Harmony tickets.

  58. Earthdance 2008 Buckethead headlined, and inebriated as I was I thought he was calling down aliens with his music. (If you know Buckethead, you know what I mean) 10 minutes into the show a helicopter flew into the grounds, tripped us all out. Apparently a woman stabbed herself during the set, on too many hits of LSD, but before I found out the real reason, I was convinced he had contacted an alien race.

  59. Brittany Escalante June 6, 2011 at 7:00 pm

    I was at Health and Harmony about three years ago , we were camping first time being to a festival and I remember it being so amazing Cake was so brilliant hug group of people dancing and singing along, Pepper’s mosh pit was great anyone knocked down got help right back up it was insane! Shpongle at Techno Tribal I was dancing all night long, and partied with our neighbors till morning it was the best time of my life!

    1. Brittany Escalante June 6, 2011 at 7:11 pm

      i would go rock out to primus!

  60. Paula Whitehall June 6, 2011 at 6:56 pm

    Seriously, you have to be able to remember?

  61. Easily Xingolati, the Groove Cruise. I have been to endless festivals in my time here.. but nothing approached it. I was meant to be a zombie relaying the perils of consumerism, but far and away too early during the event I had a teddy bear lion head thing on and everyone knew me as the lion bear who was giving out hugs. It led to some of the most amazing discoveries and friendships…. the experience of life is complemented by an open heart and willing mind to search and explore and love. Hell… I even wore the dang thing in the hot tub. That’s when Wayne demanded a picture: http://people.tribe.net/unclefishbits/photos/a064d7ee-43fb-43fe-9333-2a5c1a841868

    He actually took a bunch of pics that cruise, and I never saw them.

    But there was a rave in an elevator: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LPz7YpZKkg

    I won’t spam the whole text here, but I wrote about it for Jambase.. I think. Or someone. I wrote about it and I think it couldn’t be used. So there’s that.

    High Sierra has had some epic moments for me. Burning Man has changed my life at the right time. But Xingolati will never be beat. Best festival ever.

  62. Most memorable….so many I’ve had, one was experiencing New Orleans Jazz Fest in 1996. The awe of the French Quarter and hearing music of all sorts bellowing out of the many different bars and clubs into the streets…. To actually going to the fair grounds and really feeling what makes this festival so special. The Gospel and Blues tent with the umbrella parade in full swing, enjoying all sorts of different worlds of music and the joy of dancing and swaying to Van Morrison, B.B. King & Buddy Guy and a few New Orleans artist for the first time while enjoying all of the super yum food southern food vender’s………
    And also seeing Erykah Badu at Harmony Featival in 2007 & Tribal Techno Shpongle w/ Matisyahu! Wow! Both mind blowing in there own ways!!! Again please ~;-)

  63. At Treasure island I experienced Monotonix! I was in the wild mosh pit and was helping to carry the drums around during their set as they played and moved around in the crowd! It was the most interactive set i have ever seen – it was the most unique performance – and i was so blown away by the experience.

  64. Having Edward (from Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros) jump into the crowd, hug me and let me sing with him on the microphone at Treasure Island Music Festival

  65. Parker Ranch on the Big Island of Hawaii almost 4 years ago. Ms.Lauryn Hill made a rare special performance at a small reggae festival feat. legendary greats in which HI was the only stop in the US. She was late & it was pouring rain but once she hit the stage everyone ran to the dancefloor and stayed there. That. Or, seeing the famous Janet Jackson performance @ her Hawaii concert. True Performer. If you haven’t seen it! Google it! You won’t regret it!

  66. Lollapalooza, I think it was the first one too! with Nine Inch Nails and Siouxsie….

    and the side shows were great too

  67. Lollapalooza 2010 – Watching b.o.b. play while dragonflies fluttered around Grant Park. Magical! :)

  68. Electric Daisy Carnival in LA in 2010 was mind blowing! We managed to get backstage and I danced in front of the massive speakers for Boys Noize, helped throw confetti into the crowd, and then ran backstage after the show to meeet him. EPIC!!!!

  69. I always will remember being a little kid and going to the Strawberry music festival every year. Hearing all the bluegrass and seeing all the hippies running around never really phased me but running naked through the fields was definitely worth remembering.

    1. Trust me, Most of us old hippies are still going and now bringing our grand kids. Not so much of the nakedness, there are still those occasional late night though. lol

  70. Outsidelands 2009. Seeing Dave Mathews live was ridic! :D

    1. I remember Earthdance, the times I’ve been there, where I received guidance from some very important spiritual teachers. The things I experienced I probably won’t forget in energetic motion. We had some really powerful drum circles in which we felt group transcendence.

      1. …not to mention the stage, the music got my body talking

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