Getting In Touch With My Internal Hippie at Bear Creek Music Festival
This past weekend, I made a last-minute decision to nurture my insatiable appetite for the beautiful combination of incessant live music, the woods, and illicit substances by tagging along with some of my buddies to the Bear Creek Music & Arts Festival, located at the charming Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park in Live Oak.
Scouring the lineup prior to departure, I wouldn’t say I was ecstatic- lots of bluegrass, jam and funk. Don’t get me wrong; all that stuff is fine and dandy, but lately I have been on such an electronica kick that it has become somewhat difficult to get excited over anything that does not somehow incorporate a synthesizer. I should also mention that I am extremely wary of overwhelming brass sections.
Subsequently, it came as a bit of a shock that the mind-blowing concert experience of the weekend (for me, and pretty much any spun-out hippie I caught up with walking to and from the campsite) consisted of the ultimate knee-slapping, tin can-rapping, improvisational jam experience (including brass in the form of a trumpet and a sax) known as The Everyone Orchestra.
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