Rothbury

Here is the much anticipated blog entry of my days at Rothbury. My friends Carissa and Lisa and I went to the small West Michigan town of Rothbury (Population 400) to work of at the Rothbury music festival. The night we left Ann Arbor it was raining so hard we could barely pack the car. It continued to rain until we were abut an hour outside of Rothbury. I feared that might be a the kind of weather we would have the whole time but I think the weather was just getting all the nastiness out of its system because it was beautiful and sunny the whole time we were there. Some bands I heard while there include Sam Bean of Iron and Wine, Dave Mathews, Gomez, The Black Keys, Micheal Franti, Of Montreal and Modest Mouse.
I have posted the pictures in chronological order.



Because it was raining we left about an hour and a half late. That meant we ended up setting up camp just after midnight. Here's Lisa and I inflating mattresses.


The next night we started work. I was a cashier at this bar. We had to work until 1 am the night of July 3rd. The 4th was Carissa's birthday so here is a great inebriated rendition of happy birthday just a few moments after her b-day officially started.


Here we are at Modest Mouse, the first concert that we didn't have to work. Lisa and Carissa are either trying to scope out Lead Singer Isaac Brock or they might have just caught a glance of Micheal Franti.


Here is my first picture with a musician. Micheal Franti writes social justice pro-peace reggae like music. Though I don;t listen to his music too much he is a great performer and is really into his BO. Carissa's shoulder smelled like Micheal Franti the rest of the evening:)

This is the woods that we walked thorugh to get from one venure to another. There is a lot of hammocks and mushroom looking tents for people to chill in. We didn't spend much time there it is not hard to imagine things other than just chillin that might be going on in there.


Here is the second concert we attended and was the night of July 4th, Of Montreal. They are a really talented band and visual as you can see from the picture above and below. They had these children dressed in costumes chasing the man in spandex around the stage multiple times through out the concert. They also had this screen that displayed various cartoon like pictures. One of them must be an aspiring visual artist as well as a musician.


Here is a picture of the of the forest at night. The whole festival had a lot of visual art and the forest was probably the most cool when it was all lit up at night.


Here are the three of us at the Micheal Franti concert.


Michael Franti had us dance and hug those around us multiple times throughout the concert. I think this guy got a little too into it.


Campsite


Last picture together before we went our separate days after 4 days together. We had a code to indicate if someone was annoyed and needed alone time. The phrase was "Santa's got a new sleigh." I am happy to report we never had to use it. We had a great time. I am glad the Carissa and Lisa followed my sudden whim to join the neo-hippie world for a few days.