GOLDRUSH Music Festival ~ Thank You and 9/16/11 Day 1 Darkroom
The ‘rush has come in gone… but I imagine if you spent the weekend with us, memories from the ‘best little festival’ ever will sparkle and glow in your heart for many days to come (my body is still vibrating). There was so much positive energy put into this event from so many people, I just want to take a minute to thank them because GOLDRUSH would merely be an unfulfilled idea/dream without them… So here it goes: Jake from (Speaker Snacks) for his ridiculous drive to make this event the best possible. Crawford (TOME To The Weather Machine) for taking care of many loose-ended details and keeping us grounded. Dillon Morton for designing and managing our sweet website. Dwight and Liz (Fig + Fox) for making our wonderful GOLDRUSH artwork and putting up with countless changes to the posters, etc. Rachel Evans (Motion Sickness In Time Travel) for making such a dialed promo video. Jeromie and Mario (Audio Visual Violence Club) for making over 100 lanterns out of reclaimed jars and creating stunningly unique visuals (whale-sharks to glaciers to graveyards) for each artists’ set. Rande (Act So Big Forest) for putting together a solid production team (Gauntlet Hair fo’ life!), that truly made the weekend run ridiculously smooth. Hillary for making the beautiful gold-washed sparkling backdrop (the golden fleece) for The Mine Stage. Jamie for throwing such a cool after-party with the Brass Tree Sessions crew, and assembling our ultra-crafty bookmark schedules. Lastly the artists – who came from down the street and across state-lines/borders (even unknown lands) to make GOLDRUSH truly fucking epic! Everyone of you mentioned above deserves not just a red and a blue star, but also a gold star… I don’t use this word lightly, but last weekend we created ‘MAGIC’ together. From the first set at The Mine Stage on Friday evening by Lake Mary, to R E A L M A G I C’s midnight side-walk dance party at Delite, to the mid-day madness that was Saturday GOLDRUSH (School Knights, StaG, Seven Feather’s, Tjutjuna, Slow Magic, King Mob, Galapagos, and on and on…), to How To Dress Well’s festival closing set, to the late-late-night ambient drone-wave that carried us into the sunset. I only hope we can be brought back to this place called GOLDRUSH or some ‘golden’ incarnation of it sometime soon. We had a critical mass of people willing amazing things to happen… If you were there, then you know… and with that I’ll say: “Much love to you all, stay-tuned and happy equinox!”
Hi-Dive - The Mine Stage
Delite – The Camp Stage
