Yes! Every year I say I am going to this music festival and something always comes up. My allergies were raging but I did not care I forced myself to go this past Saturday. Mostly wanted to go because Pert Near Sandstone was going to be there and I loved them at the Blue Ox Music Festival last year. This festival is all original music by artists. NO cover music allowed. Here are some of the great high lights from the festival and the bands we saw below. Check them out!
Artist we watched:
Pert Near Sandstone
It was roughly a decade ago that Pert Near Sandstone first gathered around a microphone in a Minneapolis basement to record its debut album, “Up And Down The River.” So much has happened since then: highs and lows, personal struggles and artistic triumphs, new faces and new sounds. The winding road the band members have traveled over the years makes it all the more meaningful for them to come full circle on their dazzling new release, “Discovery Of Honey.” This album finds them once again recording in a basement and reuniting with founding member, Ryan Young, who's spent the past seven years touring the world playing fiddle with bluegrass stars, Trampled By Turtles.
Smooth Hound Smith
Based in East Nashville, Smooth Hound Smith has travelled over 150,000 highway miles to date on an incredible musical journey. The group’s humble beginnings consisted of "car-camping" in a van in Walmart parking lots and led all the way to performing for tens of thousands in support of the Dixie Chicks at arenas and amphitheaters in the U.S. and abroad. Founded by husband/wife duo Zack Smith and Caitlin Doyle-Smith, Smooth Hound Smith performs a unique style of folky, garage-infused rhythm and blues.
The National Parks The National Parks was formed by frontman Brady Parks in early 2013 in Provo, Utah. Together, the band’s first two independently released full-length albums (and a standalone single, “As We Ran”) have amassed more than 13.2 million Spotify streams and garnered praise from press outlets such as NPR’s All Songs Considered, CMT Edge, Baeble Music and Pop Matters. The National Parks’ self-booked touring began in the summer of 2014, and by 2016, the act was filling clubs in every region across the country while also performing at SXSW, Canadian Music Week, School Night at Bardot’s, Musikfest, Snowmass Mammoth Fest and Make Music Pasadena. The band released its third studio album (“Places”) in 2017.
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| Cool outdoor venues as well as indoor venues. We stayed outside. |
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| Chilling in the grass. I recommend you bring a blanket to sit on if you plan on being outside. |
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| The back of Pert Near Sandstone. Great show as always! |
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| How cool is this can!? |
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| Pert and a beer for Ryan! |
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| Cool art all over Appleton. |
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| The last artist before we headed home due to rain and being wiped tired. |
Until next time~
XoXo Emily
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