At Wakarusa Music Festival, RFW caught up with longtime friends The New Mastersounds to discuss their traveling from Leeds UK to America, playing selections from their forthcoming release. To find out more information on this band, check out TheRFW.com.At Wakarusa Music Festival, RFW caught up with longtime friends The New Mastersounds... more
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RFWtv Presents a pod from the 2009 Wakarusa Music Festival. We caught up with Johnny, a young artist who designed, built and created the 'Edge of Imagination Station'. A creative space that allowed festival attendees of all ages to put their fingers to work, Johnny has developed a way for us all to take part in making art with Stop-Motion Animation.
For more information on Johnny and Wakarusa 2009 - visit Roving Festival Writer at TheRFW.com.RFWtv Presents a pod from the 2009 Wakarusa Music Festival. We caught up with Johnny,... more
OZARK - Andrew Thompson drove through the night Wednesday from his Lawrence, Kan., home to carve out a campsite outside this town.
More than 10,000 concert goers were expected to join him by the end of the day Thursday, taking up temporary residence at the edge of the Ozark National Forest for four days of music, beer and very few showers as the Wakarusa Music and Camping Festival spends its first year at the Mulberry Mountain Camping and Events Center.
Favoring a privately owned site over the state park of its origins in 2004, festival organizers moved the event this year in hopes of more freedom for concert goers.
Thompson, 21, went to the event for three years when it was in his Kansas backyard, and he gladly made the trip with eight friends to a new site, even though it was a bit more difficult to find on a map.
"It's new and different, and the lineup is great," he said. "I think it will draw a lot more people here every year."
Moving Wakarusa from its original location was a bit of a gamble, organizer Brett Mosiman said. But by the end of the day Thursday, rows of license plates from Kansas and around the country showed that the festival faithful weren't re- luctant to follow it to its new home.
Festival organizers said they sold 10,000 tickets in advance and expected more people to come each day.
Tents formed tight rows on the 650-acre grounds. A tie-dyed banner strung between them carried a sentiment common among imported concert-goers: "We have no idea where we are, but we're having a good time."
Campers slowly emerged from their tents at noon as the first bands took to the festival's four stages.
On the main stage, Chicagobased bluegrass band Cornmeal strummed a chorus of "I hope to get to Heaven on time."
People gathered at the foot of the stage, dancing in small circles. Women swung Hula Hoops around their bodies, tracing the rhythm of the music as they slid the hoops from one relaxed limb to another.
The festival is known for drawing a diverse lineup of musicians, spanning from ambient electronic music to bluegrass, rock and reggae.
The main acts will include Yonder Mountain String Band, Les Claypool and The Black Crowes.
Jerry VanZee, 53, and his wife, Barbara, drove from Mountainburg after winning two VIP tickets from a radio station valued at $2,000.
"We're going to start saving up," Jerry VanZee said, sitting at his first show. "We already know we want to come back next year."
Barbara VanZee said she has seen rock guitarist Sammy Hagar in concert 13 times, and keeps a 4-inch stack of concert tickets to remember good shows.
The couple, twice as old as most of Wakarusa's attendees, said they could keep up with the younger crowd - for the most part.
Their favorite band, Govt. Mule, was scheduled to take the stage at 11 p.m.
........OZARK - Andrew Thompson drove through the night Wednesday from his Lawrence, Kan.,... more
RFWtv Presents the 2008 Wakarusa Music Festival by Roving Festival Writer, LLC. Held in Lawrence, KS, Wakarusa brought together artists like The Flaming Lips, CAKE, Ben Folds, STS9 and the Avett Brothers for the first weekend in June.
Due to the onset of weather that would soon bring the flood waters to hit areas like Hannibal, MO and the state of Iowa, many performances were canceled; however, many acts soldiered on and made Wakarusa 2008 one for the memory books.
For more information on Wakarusa Music Festival, visit TheRFW.com.
This is Part 2 of a two part series for the 2008 Wakarusa Music Festival.
This video was produced by Rashon A. Massey & Benjamin J. LandsmanRFWtv Presents the 2008 Wakarusa Music Festival by Roving Festival Writer, LLC. Held... more
RFWtv Presents the 2008 Wakarusa Music Festival by Roving Festival Writer, LLC. Held in Lawrence, KS, Wakarusa brought together artists like The Flaming Lips, CAKE, Ben Folds, STS9 and the Avett Brothers for the first weekend in June.
Due to the onset of weather that would soon bring the flood waters to hit areas like Hannibal, MO and the state of Iowa, many performances were canceled; however, many acts soldiered on and made Wakarusa 2008 one for the memory books.
For more information on Wakarusa Music Festival, visit TheRFW.com.
This is Part I of a two part series for the 2008 Wakarusa Music Festival.
This video was produced by Rashon A. Massey & Benjamin J. LandsmanRFWtv Presents the 2008 Wakarusa Music Festival by Roving Festival Writer, LLC. Held... more
