Tag: music festival

  • Bourbon and Beyond: Days 3 & 4 

    Bourbon and Beyond: Days 3 & 4 

    Days One and Two of Bourbon & Beyond were highly organized and very strict when it came to the front gates.  The event was constantly posting on their socials and emailing out rules and regulations for standards that they wanted upheld throughout the long weekend.  You could only bring in chairs if you had a…

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  • Bourbon & Beyond: Day Two

    Bourbon & Beyond: Day Two

    So now we reside in Day Two of Bourbon & Beyond. Day one nearly killed me as I realized that 10 hours standing in the sun after driving three hours to get here was too long of a day for this 50-year-old. There is nowhere to hide at this festival.  There are tents around the…

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  • Bourbon & Beyond: Day One

    Bourbon & Beyond: Day One

    Here I am, in my hotel room, just north of Louisville, Kentucky in Sellersberg, Indiana pondering what I have seen over the last two days.  It’s Bourbon & Beyond and it’s a lot.  According to local news sources and the Bourbon & Beyond website the festival is bringing in $12.5 million dollars in local revenue…

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  • We Had the Time of Our Lives

    We Had the Time of Our Lives

    Green Day headlines their Savior’s Tour with The Smashing Pumpkins, Rancid and The Linda Linda’s The last time I went to see Green Day it was in September of 2021 in Seattle, Washington.  We were still coming out of pandemic and the world was different.  This was the first concert I was able to attend…

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  • Day Four at Lolla and Top 10 Lessons Learned

    Day Four at Lolla and Top 10 Lessons Learned

    After 3 days and 24 hours of festival time we finally made it to Sunday.  We were running on fumes by the last day. Thank goodness the first artist on the teen list was later in the day!  Late start getting out the door and decided to not brave the subway and uber in style…

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  • Saturday in the Park – Day 3 at Lollapalooza 

    Saturday in the Park – Day 3 at Lollapalooza 

     After 18 hours of Lolla on Thursday and Friday we decided to take our time getting into the festival on Saturday.   We took the morning and afternoon to walk around the city and check out downtown.  Arrived at Lolla just in time for one of my daughter’s favorite bands, TV Girl.   To my surprise it…

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  • Lolla-Day-Twooza

    Lolla-Day-Twooza

    Day Two at Lollapalooza in Chicago After eight hours at Lolla on day one we felt like we were experts going into day 2. We hit the red line and made it to Grant Park to battle the heat and crowds for another memorable day. Using day 1 to get the lay of the land…

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