BONNA WHO? BONNAROO.

So this past SUMMER I decided to fulfill a dream of mine. I decided to go to BONNAROO!

The Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival is an annual, four to five-day music festival, created and produced by Superfly Productions and AC Entertainment. The festival is held at Great Stage Park on a 700 acre farm in Manchester, Tennessee.



I MUST say this was one of the greatest experiences of my LIFE. First of all...I did things a little differently than most people. One of my good friends is in charge of running the TOLL booth. So I did what I thought would be the BEST thing and work the TOLL booth at BONNAROO! So me and some friends [and some not so friends] signed up, and packed our stuff. We drove up a day early to get our stuff all set up AND get right to work. After getting our tents set up and getting situated [as BEST you can in a field filled with millions of other people] we went to an HOUR of training. The training consisted of learning the WAYS...the BONNA WAYS as we like to call them! WE learned how to greet the cars that drive up...ask them for their tickets...scan the tickets, then give them back the ticket stubs & PLACE a green and purple cloth bracelet with the words BONNAROO stitched on. THEN last but not least get handed them a booklet with a schedule of all of the EVENTS and concerts. THE shifts were 12 hours long...6 PM to 6 AM! longggggg shift but well worth a free ticket to the best SHOWS and what we were unaware to become some of the BEST days of our lives.

So after MEETING thousands of very interesting people driving through the TOLL booth, it was time to get the real BONNAROO experience. I remember the first time walking through the BONNAROO arch and into CENTEROO [where all the bands perform] it was like entering a whole new world! THOUSANDS upon thousands of people everywhere...wearing anything from big bird costumes to nothing at all. ANYTHING and I mean anything goes at BONNAROO!


I am STILL in shock of how many GREAT bands that I saw. ALL within 4 days of being there. 2009 LINEUP included: Animal Collective. Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Bon Iver. Ben Harper. Citizen Cope. SNOOP DOGG. Grizzly Bear. Pheonix. Passion Pitt. Phish. The Beastie Boys. MGMT. Crystal Castles. Girl Talk. Pretty Lights. The Mars Volta. Santigold. Of Montreal. Wilco. Cage the Elephant. and many many MORE.

ALSO, I cannot believe that I used a porta potty for 4 whole days straight [blows my mind] but hey I did it & that's all that matters right? SO OVERALL the experience was incredible. I will definitely be making an appearance to at least the next couple BONNAROOS. If I work the TOLL booth again or NOT...that is the question of the year!..and you BETTER believe I ponder that thought EVERY single day of my LIFE.