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Wonder Cabinet

Summer Music Festivals

Wonder Cabinet

Wonder Cabinet Productions

Society & Culture, Wonder, Philosophy, Ttbook, Knowledge, Interview

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2015

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Ah, summer music festivals... beer tents, starry nights, a great lineup of bands. And tens of thousands of strangers. The festival-ization of American music has more of us shelling out for expensive tickets to multi-day, multi-stage festivals. Are they worth it?  And, how did we get here?   Why Do We Love Summer Music Festivals?; Bon Iver Puts Wisconsin Hometown On The Map With Indie Music Fest; Too Young For Woodstock? Here's What You Missed; Groovier Than Woodstock; Why I Hate Summer Music Festivals; Indigo Girls On The Power Of All-Women's Music Festivals.

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0:00.0

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0:10.3

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0:18.8

It's to the best of our knowledge from PRI.

0:21.6

I'm Anne Strain Champs.

0:22.9

Today, summer music festivals.

0:28.3

Thank you so much.

0:29.9

I think people are a different mindset.

0:32.3

In the summer, everybody's just happier, especially in the Midwest.

0:36.1

In the winter, everybody just gets crabby and depressed.

0:38.8

It's hot and sweaty, and you kind of have to fight a lot of better judgment to come

0:42.9

into a lot of these things.

0:44.2

You're looking for the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

0:46.4

We've made plans for this in February when we first heard about it, and it's like winter

0:51.6

is going to end at some point, and then we get to go out and have fun

0:55.2

and play i'm with my best friends it's a road trip it's adventure for us being in minnesota it's

1:00.9

so cold throughout the winter so an excuse to literally spend days outside in the sunshine

1:06.9

among the trees in the grass listening to fantastic music, there's nothing better.

1:13.0

We're up in northwest Wisconsin at the first ever O'Clair Music and Arts Festival.

1:18.3

It's a big indie gathering, organized by Bonnevere's Justin Vernon.

1:22.4

25,000 people biked, drove, and flew in for this.

1:27.1

Most of them camped overnight, and they've already

1:29.2

endured an epic Midwestern thunderstorm. But this morning the sun is out, there's bug spray and free

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