around the world in 9 fests ALIQUAM
This summer, say, “Goodbye, Coachella” and instead, “Hello, Splendour in the Grass.” The newest music festival to attend is the one overseas.
hakespeare wrote “all the world’s a stage.” But when standing in a grassyfield at a music festival with hundreds of other fans, it often feels like “all of the world’s” in front of one stage. A community is created in front of the stage, where the crowd stands together with one predominant purpose: the music. And the sound pulsating through the speakers on stage — performed by an Indie band with a name that sounds like a random adjective and noun pulled from the dictionary — isn’t always familiar either. In the audience at a music festival, melodies and lyrics different from anything currently in your Spotify starred tracks float through the air and into your ears. All it takes is one microphone, one singer, and a crowd to transport you to a new place with a new community.
Yes, any festivalgoer will understand this experience — it’s what keeps us shelling out the cash for the pricey tickets to Bonnaroo and Coachella. But what if that sense of adventure one finds on the festival grounds paired up with a traditional adventure. How about a global trek to discover new places and people through both music festivals and international travel? Breaking news: It’s not just in our own backyards where worlds are changing with the strum of a guitar. Sure, heading to Grant Park in Chicago for Lollapalooza has you driving ten minutes from your home into a world unknown, but what happens when you multiply that by thousands of miles? Add in a truly new world, add in a music festival — where would it take you?
To the Parque O’Higgins in Chile. To Rabat, Morocco. To Aarhaus, Denmark. The Danube Island off the coast of Austria. We’ve made the itinerary for your trip around the world in music festivals, and now it’s up to you to experience it. It’s up to you to go to Pula, Croatia, to Porto, Portugal, to Pilton, UK and find out how many worlds away a music festival can take you when you travel across the globe to get there.
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