The Big Up 2011 Recap
Now that the dust has settled, festival organizers Shireworks Productions look back on their event: The Big Up Music & Arts festival held on July 28, 29 and 30, 2011 at Sunnyview Farm in Ghent, New York. The event which attracted some 5,000 festival-goers from all over the country, featured a revolutionary mix of live entertainment, arts and activities that culminated during a three-day period closing out the month of July.
Over 70 musical acts from all over the world were brought together to provide live musical entertainment throughout the event. Headlining acts EOTO (one half of the String Cheese Incident featuring Michael Travis and Jason Hann), Tipper, Digital Tape Machine (featuring Joel Cummins and Kris Myers of Umphrey’s McGee), RAQ, Big Gigantic and Marco Benevento graced the stages during the festival.
In addition to the live entertainment, over a hundred arts collaborators joined hands to create an awesome visual landscape to compliment this year’s The Big Up festival theme: “Planet Earth Phones Home.” From large-scale art installations to exhibits and decorations, the imagery was a sight to behold. See pictures on our Sights & Sounds page.
If the arts and live entertainment wasn’t enough, festival-goers could participate in any of the many organized activities during the festival from geocaching, yoga, showcasing their own talents in the talent show, cooking in the Big Chef Challenges, night sky watching, learning about organic gardening, foraging and taking workshops in health and wellness centered topics.
The combination of music, arts and activities seemed to resonate with this year’s The Big Up Music & Arts Festival-goers and the festival is gaining positive press attention from all over the country.
“We have had a truly overwhelming response from our festival attendees this year, the feedback we are receiving is coming in mass amounts and we are looking forward to continuing this positive momentum for our 2012 festival event,” says festival organizers Shireworks Productions.
Big Up 2012 here we come!
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