Music Festivals + Camping = A Magical Experience

The people from TheDyrt recently posted about camping at music festivals. They mostly explored tenting. While many of #RoadtripMojo’s fans pull out their RV or van camper, hitch up their travel trailer, a fair lot – like those at #KampHappiness and #TheQuartermoonBand sites dig pitching their tents to enjoy the show – and whatever comes after, like a little pickin’,  grinnin’, grillin’ and chillin’, or just some spacial exploration.

In their post, the authors comment how “camping at a music festival is an entirely different experience than camping in the woods. The peaceful bird songs in the morning are replaced by stadium speakers and rowdy crowds. While you might lose some solitude, you’ll gain the experience of rocking out with thousands of new friends.” (To see other festivals, check out RoadtripMojo’s ‘Nicked From the Web’ Festival Compilation)

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Unleashing Your (Inner) Child: Camping & Music Festivals For All Ages

By Jeff Zbar

 

Time was when this music festival-going parent saw a weekend retreat to a music festival as an escape from the demands of family obligations. I mean, I was an involved dad and all. When they were squirts, I was the lone daddy who took our kids to “Mommy and Me.” As they grew, I shepherded them to dance competitions and travel hockey tournaments.

But what could be more escapish than critter-free times with a group of friends unleashed into our favorite music and camping scene, with a few libations and whatnot thrown in – especially with the kids in their mother’s able (maybe more able than my own) hands?

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RV Camping’s Big Honkin’ Summer 2019 Music Festival Guide

Dead & Company played The Gorge last weekend, Bonnaroo is this weekend, and Phish is out there… somewhere. That means the summer music festival and concert season is upon us. Add to that the thousands of RVers who are pulling their rigs out of storage, pulling off the covers, and hitting the highway, and it’s clear that the summer music festival camping season has arrived. Ready to rock? 

Not sure what’s on your schedule yet? #RoadtripMojo has pulled together some of the necessary details to help you hit the road – and campgrounds and festival grounds. Roll through these lists…

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Siberia No Longer: Bands, Music Festivals Calling On South Florida

Warren Haynes and Gov’t Mule at Boca’s Sunset Cove

If you’re a live music-loving South Florida native, it’s a great time to get your tunes on. It wasn’t that long ago that the southern stretch of the Sunshine State was a musical Siberia. Plenty of arena- and stadium-filling acts – Elton John, U2, The Rolling Stones, and Lady Gaga – would regularly and dutifully venture south of Orlando, bringing in tow tickets ranging in the hundreds of dollars – before the scalpers unleash their bots and resale pillaging.

But bands more befitting a smaller theater or concert hall – and tickets rarely topping $30 – avoided the last 200 miles of the state. After all, 400-plus miles r/t is a heluva road trip to play to a few hundred loyal fans.

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Hey Amigo, Help Me Score One Ticket to Paradise

I’m a procrastinator. I can’t help it; it’s in my DNA. I was gonna write this blog today two months of todays ago. But why do today what you can put off ‘til tomorrow, right? I also hate obscene ticket service – ahem, “convenience” – fees (I just bought a $350 music festival ticket that had $59 in service charges. Two of ‘em, actually. Damn, that was a painful display of whorish thievery – nothing convenient about it). I also suffer certifiable FOMO. If there’s a show my friends are going to, I just gotta be there.

“Who’s playing again?” (Is that my FOMO speaking, or my faltering memory? Here’s the YouTube link, in case you’re interested)

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