5 Most Brilliant Summer Music Festivals
Festival season is upon us, and if the smells of sizzling grills with your personal backyard aren’t doing your summertime justice, maybe it’s time to expand your land and share it using a crowd of music-obsessed, and sweaty, dancing individuals. There’s no other way, I say. You understand that summers are made for that life of leisure. So we’ve compiled a list of glorious, music-drenched festivities taking place extremely soon that will be sure to singe the soles off of your tap-tapping feet.
Every year, there’s a wonderful festival-buffet to decide on from–it’s only a matter of understanding what kind of rug-cutting and neck-straining you’d prefer to accomplish. And so, with no more ado, we present to you the 5 most awesome music festivals this summer time and beyond!:
1. Bumbershoot
Taken through the slang word for an umbrella, Bumbershoot will be the largest urban arts event in North America. The annual music & arts fest will have you in a reverie of sound–from folk, rock and alternative acts from around the globe, from local favorites to legends–your ears will undoubtedly thank you a hundred times over. If you’re into other flavors of ear-candy, the event also offers a feast of comedy, spoken word, dance, literary arts and theater performances to satiate those cravings. The Bumbershoot festivities take place over Labor Day weekend at the 74-acre Seattle Center, Seattle, Washington.
2. Long Beach Blues Festival
The Long Beach Blues Festival gathers a savory cluster of notes that will make your soul melt. Also taking place over Labor Day weekend, this event presents the best of blues-rock, electric-blues, and jazz at the beautiful, tree-dense Rainbow Lagoon Park in Long Beach, California. The park sits close to the Pacific Ocean, so you can sway and groove to the funky and soulful melodies, all while cool breezes through the coast caresses and washes over you.
3. Pitchfork Music Festival
If independent music rings true to your blood, Pitchfork’s Music Festival will make your veins weep. Prepare yourself to experience July’s most massive indie-intensive party, and realize that you were a part of it all. Later you can tell your grandchildren you traveled to Chicago in the same flannel shirt and flip-flops for days, and ate only organic produce from diving dumpsters, just to sweat it out with the hippest, and probably most obsessive, music freaks in existence.
4. Siren Music Festival
Ah, Coney Island. Nostalgia for old-time arcade and carnival food will tempt you, but the sounds from Siren Music Festival will put you under its spell and take you back to glorious reality. The all day, all ages event is free–sure to put a big smile on your pocket. Venture to the Coney Island amusement park in mid-July and revel in the new and old of independent music. You’ll have an great time bobbing your head to-and-fro, reminiscing on summer season loves, and undertaking so inside a legendary and enchanting landmark. Did I mention that it is free?
5. Lollapalooza
What’s left to say about Lollapalooza? Every August in Chicago, rock rules the stage. And the die-hards, the true, pure rockers of our age, reunite to make that stage a glittering altar. Only the most talented artists headline here, ensuring that each and every festival makes music history. And if rocking out to Arcade Fire and Lady Gaga in the same field doesn’t blow your mind, we don’t know what will. So frolic down to Grant Park, Chicago this summer–it’s a beautiful disaster waiting to happen.
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