Dear Interweb,

During the ski season, music is very important to me even though I can rarely manage to attend concerts.  My ipod and skullcandies are always with me.  

 Before I travelled so much for skiing, I went to all the live concerts I could.  (I used my first ski comp winnings to travel to Montreal–where my sister, Veronique, lived–to see the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, back when they were edgy.)  So after ski season, I seek out concerts, quenching my thirst for live performances and new music.  Sasquatch Music Festival was exactly what I needed!  I headed down to Washington state with a friend from school for three days packed with a huge variety of bands/musicians. I listened, sang, crowd surfed, swayed, danced, and clapped to favourites and new musical finds.

Hanging out in some of the only shade at the festival between bands

Through new friends and random occurrences, I received an all access wrist band.  Oh, the freedom of the “I’m-someone-or-I-just-know-someone” pass!   I spent the rest of the festival on the stages.

(The camera that we took all of our pictures with is currently MIA. I will post sweet backstage pics once I find them!)

Sasquatch was worth the drive (6 hours each way), the expense, lack of sleep, and even having to catch up on missed classes and lots of assignments through a haze of semi-exhaustion.

Sincerely,

Roz G

Post-script:   Here are my  Sasquatch quick-picks: 

Favourite performance(s): Of Montreal, Explosions In The Sky

Favourite new musical discovery(ies): Fleet Foxes, Devotchka, The Builders and the Butchers

Favourite band(s) to dance to: Santigold, Girl Talk

Most Surreal Experience: Being backstage watching TV on the Radio play and looking out into the audience to see 30,000 people watching back 

Favourite people I hung out with at Sasquatch: Sam, Chrevor, Steven and Julia!