In light of the festival that was voted the best music festival in Canada coming up in just about a week, I figured I would write about my first experience at Evolve last year. I'm sure those of you who are veterans of Evolve Festival can relate and those who are not don't quite get it, but that weekend in July 2010 absolutely changed my life.
Upon arrival on the Friday afternoon, you saw so many cars and then all of the people walking up the hill with their gear. Already I could tell the vibe was incredibly positive and loving. The first thing that happened as we walked through the gates was that some girl I didn't know came right up to me and gave me a huge hug followed by a warm "Happy Evolve!". This actually happened several times with people I didn't know, and it was probably the best feeling in the world to have so much love around.
I'll never forget going over to the main stage and seeing Jonas receive CBC's award for the best festival in Canada. Rich Aucoin came up right after, and it was just so surreal watching him up on stage interacting so well with the crowd with props and other random objects. The best had to have been when he decided to take a surf board and literally crowd surf in the audience. Awesome!
So many more bands were so wonderful each and every day. I barely slept and didn't feel like I needed to just because I was so happy and full of life that it just didn't seem necessary to me; I just wanted to take everything in. Rain or shine, people were out dancing and loving life.
At the end of the festival, I was so sad to go. I got back into the swing of things and immediately craved that vibe again in Antigonish.
Hopefully this year coming will be just as amazing if not better. So many friends of mine will be going this time around, and I'm going to say that it will up my enjoyment exponentially.
8 more days.
Get ready to Evolve!
