Suwannee Hulaween has become one of the most sought-after cross-genre festivals in the country. The festival offers a unique blend of music, arts, and camping, attracting fans nationwide. This year’s edition follows the resounding success of the 10th-anniversary celebration, which sold out. The festival’s return to its roots at the Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park is highly anticipated by fans eager to experience the eclectic mix of music and art.

The Lineup

The festival will feature headliners such as the Grammy-winning rapper Killer Mike, duo Black Pumas, and Tash Sultana. Joining them are Sublime, with original members Eric & Bud featuring Jakob Nowell. Electronic music powerhouses performing include Chris Lake, Tipper, Chase & Status, CloZee, Liquid Stranger, Nora En Pure, Of The Trees, and Walker & Royce. Additionally, jam band legends such as Greensky Bluegrass, and Umphrey’s McGee will take the stage.

The Bobby Weir Incident is set to be a centerpiece of the festival, with two consecutive sets closing out the event on Sunday. Attendees can look forward to three hours of Grateful Dead classics. This is a first, and certainly a must-see for fans of the Dead and Cheese.

What’s New?

Michael Berg, an original co-founder, along with business partners Chris den Uijl & Aaron Ampudia, have reclaimed ownership of Hulaween. They aim to continue the festival’s legacy as an independent, large-scale music festival. Hula is certainly known for its forward-thinking lineups and immersive experiences.

Hulaween 2024 will introduce a new 360-stage experience titled OFF LIMITS, located at Spirit Lake. This stage will feature underground dance music, fire effects by Incendia, and a Funktion-One sound system. It will feature over 20 artists and surprise guests to be announced.

Additionally, the festival will also showcase a variety of acts, including Andy Frasco & The U.N., Dumpstaphunk, and Lettuce. Electronic support acts making their debut include Cassian, G Jones, J Worra, and a special set from Marc Brownstein as DJ Brownie.

Get Your Tickets

Tickets for the festival are in high demand, with the blind presale already sold out. The remaining tickets went on sale today June 20 at 10 am ET, with an exclusive pre-sale for 2024 Hula Waitlist community members on sale at 9:30 am ET.

Suwannee Hulaween continues to be a beacon for music lovers, celebrating the spirit of community and the joy of music. The 2024 festival is poised to be another unforgettable chapter in its storied history. For a full lineup and to secure your passes, head over to the Suwannee Hulaween website.

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Hailing from Christchurch, New Zealand, globally renowned dubstep duo Tristan Roake and Andre Fernandez, a.k.a. Truth, have spent the better part of a decade solidifying a comfortable position for themselves atop the underground bass music food chain with a timeless sound that never ceases to dull in significance and only improves with age. Since first commencing their rise to dubstep fame in 2007 alongside some of the scene’s most prominent innovators, Truth have managed to maintain and strengthen their rightfully impenetrable position as exemplary forefathers of the underground sound. As some of the genre’s notable pioneers, Truth not only helped mold the now unmistakable dubstep sound almost a decade ago with their first release on the iconic label DEEP MEDi, but have managed impressively enough to consistently develop, preserve and perfect their own thunderous, sophisticated and undeniably dark style, persistently deeming them a highly coveted act for many of today’s global dubstep fans.

Supplementing their extensive, earthshaking discography is their equally impressive DJing resume, as Truth have earned the opportunity to play to bass hungry crowds around the globe. Recent gigs include Canada’s Shambhala Music Festival and Croatia’s Outlook Festival to creating their own Deep Dark & Dangerous club nights (originating in San Francisco), recently performing at London’s DEEP MEDi 10 Year Anniversary show, hosting their own radio show on Sub FM and regularly frequenting Youngsta’s Rinse FM show. Throughout their decade-long music career, Truth have managed to develop a near untouchable reputation within the burgeoning underground dubstep circuit for their producing and DJing expertise, both of which have aided equally in cementing them as irreplaceable figures within the community. In a rare occurrence, we were lucky enough to sit down with both Tristan and Dre to learn more about the madmen behind the deep, dark and dangerous stylings of Truth, starting with the duo’s first introduction to dubstep.  

In a serendipitous moment of fate, Tristan and Dre became formally introduced to dubstep in the mid-2000s by none other than Mala, who appeared at their front door during a tour stop in New Zealand. At that time, the duo was unaware of the existence of Mala, Digital Mystikz, DEEP MEDi, or the exact personality of the dubstep sound. A mutual friend introduced the now iconic bass music forces on that significant day and the rest is history. The guys recounted:  

Tristan: We’d been involved in the New Zealand bass music scene for quite a few years prior to dubstep and what we saw as “dubstep” evolving, we had been doing drum and bass stuff since the early 2000s and so at that point it seemed like the new trend that was happening, but no one knew of course what was going to happen. We were doing our own thing at the time, and then Mala from Digital Mystikz was coming through New Zealand on tour and he actually went to Dre’s place for a day just to chill and these guys got along really well. Mala played a bunch of the forthcoming DEEP MEDi music and it was our sort of first real proper listen to it, just as it was about to get started.

Dre: And we had never heard of Mala or DEEP MEDi Musik or anything. We had heard a little bit of dubstep before that, we were thinking ‘ah it’s just a new trend, we don’t want to jump bandwagons’ and then he left us that CD and we were like “damn this shit’s dope.”

They continued:

Tristan: It was different to what we thought the dubstep sound was. In our town, everyone was playing very vocal influenced, quite like reggae style, dubby dubstep, and this stuff was more spacious, and more sort of thought out. It was different than what I was expecting, and the next day I went to Dre’s house for our weekly “make beats” session on Wednesday and had a go of making it. We were making drum and bass for quite a long time and we had all these sounds sitting there that were like crazy weird shit that we hadn’t been able to use and as soon as we just changed the tempo and experimented, we didn’t know what to expect and it was amazing.

Dre: It was also at a time in 2007 where drum and bass was starting to get quite watered down, quite oversaturated. We really got into it because of that raw jungle sound, the low end, the bass lines, the minimal stuff. It kinda got so overproduced by that point after ten years that we were starting to think “oh God, all these tunes are sounding the same, the same drum loop, it’s not what we originally fell in love with” and then we heard the CD from Mala and were like “wow this is the same idea, even though it’s a different tempo, it’s still the same idea.” That’s why we fell in love with the music in the first place, that space and the focus on the bass.

Tristan: Sort of the feeling of the unknown as well. Whatever we were making we’d never made before. Whatever we did those first few weeks it was like “what if we do this?” It gave us the ability to sort of experiment with stuff, and we spent like a year after that just making beats and not telling anyone about it, but the first tracks we made Mala signed to DEEP MEDi straight away.

Dre: At the time it’s not even like something we were too serious about, and I think that’s why we enjoyed it so much, because we were just having fun with it. With the drum and bass we were overthinking, just overproducing. We had got to the point where we were quite capable producers technically but we were overdoing things and overthinking it. And then with dubstep, because we did take a step back and say “it’s not too serious, let’s just have some fun,” that’s when the good stuff starting happening. That’s the start of it and from then on we never really looked back. We didn’t make a conscious decision to stop making drum and bass, we just started making dubstep and really enjoyed it.

After gaining traction as an acclaimed dubstep duo living in their hometown of Christchurch, New Zealand, Tristan and Dre made the crucial move to the States to better optimize their accessibility to the North American bass music market. The duo bounced around living in various parts of the West Coast until Tristan ultimately moved back to New Zealand to begin his own family, resulting in Dre relocating himself to Los Angeles, where he currently resides. Although the duo became and remain separated physically, they are still able to continue conquering the underground dubstep world by force, quite possibly even faster and more efficiently than ever before. This potentially risky separation turned out to be a highly beneficial strategy for spreading their uniquely savage sound to all corners of the globe in twice the speed, with Dre smashing speakers across North America and Tristan annihilating dance floors across the pond, sometimes on the very same night. That being said, the guys were impelled to tweak their production habits to accommodate this new, unusual arrangement; not an easy feat for a duo that was used to working together in the same studio five days a week for years on end. Tristan and Dre explained how they gracefully coped with these changes whilst preserving their productivity and musical integrity, as well as the unexpected benefits that come from creating tracks on opposite ends of the world:   

Tristan: Well I guess to start with, Dre and I did live very close to each other for a very long time. Before we went separate directions physically, we’d spend like four or five days in the studio together every week for like five years. So we do know each other really well from that, but yeah I mean it’s amazing because making music remotely like we do has really amazing benefits as well, but we’re not in the studio together vibing, which we do get together like twice a year for a month at a time or whatever and just go hard, and it’s instant, the minute we make a track it’s like back to what it was. And that’s really cool, but then at the same time, we both start ideas all the time and put them in a folder, which then, only the ones we both like just end up getting finished, so it’s this kind of organic filtering process of all our music, and it can be a bit more thought out. Dre will put like five new tunes in the Dropbox and it’s like “which one am I gonna work on now?” Which is an exciting challenge.

Dre: The thing is, I think at the end of the day we’d both rather be able to just say “hey come around to my place, see you in half an hour,” get on a tune and smash it out, but the reality is, we can’t do that so we figured out a formula that works and you know, it really does work. Some of our best tunes that we’ve made have been just online together. In saying that, Tristan got here a couple days ago, as soon as we sat in the studio together, in like ten minutes wrote a track together. I just think together it’s magic.

Since first garnering attention with their 2007 DEEP MEDi release, Truth have managed to not only inject their musical presence into the underground dubstep scene with releases on UK labels such as Tempa, Get Darker, Wheel & Deal and Artikal Music, but also into the global dubstep market with releases on esteemed North American dubstep labels like Firepower Records, SMOG, Rottun Records and Disciple Recordings. One of the most crucial components of Truth’s overall musical output is their unprecedented ability to excel at the art of versatility, as their music taps into a seemingly infinite range of feelings and inspirations whilst remaining undoubtedly fresh and undoubtedly “Truth”. This highly unique facet of the duo’s sound has allowed them to undertake the commendable task of seeping their underground style into the global bass music market, and in turn, attracting a much larger and diverse audience than ever before. When asked to elaborate on the difficulties this presents, the duo replied:

Dre: It’s a constant challenge for us being pigeon holed as like a “deep act” in North America because in New Zealand people say “Truth, they play dubstep,” in the UK when we play there, “Truth, they play dubstep,” out here a lot of people say, “Oh Truth, that’s that deep dubstep.” So we’ve always been pigeon holed out here as the “deeper” act when really, for us, yeah sure it’s deeper, but it’s just like a more of a contained energy. Our music’s still heavy as fuck, so trying to slide into that American market with the big festivals and the bigger EDM kinda producers, it’s definitely been a challenge, but at the same time, someone has to lead the way and try and push that sound into that area, you know.

Tristan: That’s exactly why we released an album on Firepower, for example. A few years ago when Firepower was really peaking, we did an album with our own music, we didn’t change anything for it, it was just what we wanted to do, but on a platform where people wouldn’t normally hear that kind of music.

They continued:

Dre: I think people would look at it differently if we had moved to North America after releasing on labels like DEEP MEDi and Tempa and then released an album on Firepower and totally changed our sound, but we could have released that exact album on Tempa or on DEEP MEDi but we chose to go through Firepower to reach different avenues and a broader kind of cross section of people, and we don’t expect everyone to like it or even understand it. A lot of people think we’re crazy releasing on big American labels. For us it’s not crazy, it’s just reaching new people cause we want to just spread our music.

Tristan: We feel like the people that listen to music are smart and they can make their own mind up about what they like, and when they hear some music they can make their own mind up if they like it, but it’s the fact that they aren’t even hearing it in the first place.

Dre: It’s not your fault if you go to all these EDM parties and don’t know anything about any underground nights and haven’t been exposed. It’s not your fault, you just haven’t heard it. So that’s what our main kinda thing was with that, just reaching other people, and whether they like it or not is a different thing, but just being able to reach it.

Driven by a deep rooted demand for creativity, originality and innovation coupled with an attuned outlook on not only the merit of their own music, but the musical output of others, Tristan and Dre have recently assumed the responsibility of curating their own imprint, Deep Dark & Dangerous. Their record label serves as an extension of the duo’s musical standards, as it personifies their concern for unearthing new sounds and styles as well as exposing unknown, up-and-coming artists in the scene. They explained:

Tristan: We’ve always been sent these amazing tunes and wanted to have our own label, but at the same time there’s always this subconscious thought of “yeah but someone else is doing this label, that label,” but really after a while there were all these tracks we were getting sent that weren’t even coming out.

Dre: We just felt like we were at a position that it was our turn to give back and start exposing some of these awesome producers that have been sending us music for a while and a lot of new guys that people just ignore, but we were just like “damn there’s some really good music that should be getting played at big parties.”

Dre added:

Dre: There’s so much good stuff happening. For me, it’s a really exciting time for music. It’s really popping off right now. We’re at the forefront of it right now, experiencing it all around the world, so we’ve seen what’s going on. It’s not just a trend in LA, it’s all over the world. New nights are popping up, there’s new promoters, there are guys in London that stopped making dubstep fucking five years ago and started making deep house and are now making dubstep again. So things go around in circles, and right now, it’s a really good, new fresh kind of start.

Over the last decade, Truth have matured gracefully into an invaluable staple within the dubstep community due to their unparalleled addiction for ingenuity and infectious bass weight. Their insatiable thirst for pushing the creative limits of their own sound has earned them the utmost admiration and a well deserved authority within the sound system culture, as their unwavering passion for discovering different, more versatile and more concise expressions of their musical selves has proven an infinite grab bag of fresh, exciting inspiration. Not confining themselves to the limits of 140 BPM, but rather, embarking on an endless, self-imposed voyage for uncovering all that is deep, dark and dangerous within the realms of music production, Truth will inevitably continue to carve a path through bass music’s history. In regards to realizing their ceaseless love of the dubstep sound and discerning their position within it, the guys mentioned:

Tristan: We’ve always loved it, we were playing very diverse, heavy sets as well, especially earlier on and then one day Dre and I just had a mix at his house where we just for some reason only played dark shit and we were both like “this is what we’re really into” and we kind of realized, we had this moment, and it was probably around that time when people like Youngsta were just holding it down but most of the shit that was happening was just getting heavier and heavier and more ravey.

Dre: We just decided, that’s us, that’s what we are, that’s what we’ve always liked. As long as it’s soulful, and when I say soulful I don’t mean funky, I mean moody. As long as it has a mood to it; that might be sadness, it might be happiness, but it has to have feeling cause we just feel like there’s too much plastic music. Just too much shit that doesn’t stimulate emotion, it’s just so lame you know, we’re just about the opposite of that. Sometimes we go too far and take it way too deep, and people kind of don’t even understand it and people say “what is this weird shit,” it’s like “well we like it deep and dark like that, you know, shit that you can’t understand.”

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The inspiration behind the name of one of Canada’s premier electronic music festivals, the ancient word “Shambhala”, is a Sanskrit term simply interpreted as “place of peace”. Cited in many ancient Eastern religious texts, “Shambhala” is often described as a legendary kingdom or a mythical paradise where only the pure of heart can live; a place whose reality is as visionary and spiritual as it is physical or geographic; a place where love and wisdom reign supreme. Beyond its ancient roots, “Shambhala” can also be defined as a lifestyle philosophy, one that encourages those from all walks of life to explore their own minds and to transform experiences in ways that awaken and cultivate an enlightened outlook. Adopting and applying these ideas, Shambhala Music Festival has materialized in the form of a thunderous, weekend-long experience that radiates visionary, spiritual and extra-dimensional aspects through music, art, sustainability, wellness and sense of community in its purest forms. Heeding inspiration from the origins of its name upon approaching its 2016’s gathering, Shambhala Music Festival only continued to commendably portray the roots of its namesake with this year’s 19th installment, which took place from August 5th through the 8th on the Bundschuh family’s farm in Salmo, British Columbia.

Since its humble inception in 1996 on the Bundschuh family’s farm, Shambhala Music Festival has flourished into a larger-than-life gathering, boasting six jaw-dropping stages, over three hundred musical acts, a multitude of workshops, movement classes, art, yoga, and an irreplaceable personality. Encased within the Salmo River Ranch property (a breathtaking setting of tall mountains and forest greenery), the four-day-long Shambhala Music Festival delivered yet another year of top notch, extremely diverse musical performances lasting each night until sunrise, along with one-of-a kind artistic expressions and a heap of life-changing memories with friends, both old and new. While hosting a carefully curated lineup overflowing with legendary acts like Andy C, Caspa, Rusko, Cut Chemist, Nightmares On Wax, and Questlove, as well as newer pack leaders and groundbreaking acts like Beats Antique, Excision, Opiuo, Justin Martin, Liquid Stranger, Truth, The Widdler, Shades, Snails and What So Not, Shambhala especially excelled this year in catering to an eclectic and eager crowd of music lovers spanning all styles and genres. One year before reaching its highly anticipated 20 year anniversary mark, 2016’s installment of the globally esteemed musical gathering served as proof to the festival world that this uniquely intimate, yet monumental showcase of self expression and human connection is a priceless paradise for those in search of broadening their creative horizons and enriching themselves through the healing properties of music.

With its 19th year in production just barely sinking below the horizon, Shambhala Music Festival has proven yet again its unwavering staying power as one of the most influential and thoughtful annual celebrations in today’s electronic music circuit. To secure your part in Shambhala’s roaring 20 year anniversary celebration, taking place next year from August 11th through the 14th, be sure to purchase tickets on sale Thursday, September 1st, 2016, 12 p.m. PST at shambhalamusicfestival.com!

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With just under three weeks to go, Canada’s Shambhala Music Festival is fast approaching its 19th year in production (August 5-8), which is poised to only continue the festival’s impressive transformation and upward movement from its once humble beginnings on the Bundschuh family’s farm in Salmo, British Columbia into one of Canada’s largest, most popular and highest revered electronic music gatherings. The perfect mixture of Shambhala’s jaw-dropping stages, scenic forest backdrop, carefully curated lineup overflowing with some of electronic music’s best, workshops, movement classes, yoga, vendors and overall radiant personality and communal vibes guarantees its unwavering staying power and reputation within the festival circuit. This year’s annual celebration will prove to be no different, and possibly even better than ever before, as the festival just officially announced its jam packed 2016 music schedule sprinkled over four days and across six stages.

The inaugural day of 2016’s festival, Thursday August 5th, sees the Living Room and Amphitheater stages opening their gates to festivalgoers eager to move their feet and shake their hips all weekend. Stylust Beats will kick things off with an early appearance on the Amphitheater stage at 1:30 p.m., with Space Jesus gracing the stage later on in the night at 10:30 p.m. Night owls should be sure to check out the stylings of An-Ten-Nae over at the Living Room stage at 1:00 a.m. The festival’s opening ceremony will take place the next afternoon on Friday the 6th at the Grove stage at 1:00 p.m., with music erupting onto all six stages for the first time all weekend shortly after at 3:00 p.m. The Russ Liquid Test, Opiuo, KJ Sawka, The Gaslamp Killer, Caspa & Rusko, Excision, Om Unit, and Liquid Stranger are just a few of the many exceptional names to check out during Friday’s festivities. With Shambhala in full swing, Saturday’s celebration will host the likes of some of bass music’s greatest, like Plastician, Stylust Beats, DJ Madd, Thelem, ill Gates, Alix Perez, Truth, The Widdler, Sorrow and The Upbeats. The festival will climax with a thunderous close on Sunday, August 8th thanks to roaring performances by Nightmares On Wax, Manic Focus, Shades, Emancipator, Bleep Bloop and G Jones and many, many others. Check out Shambhala 2016’s full schedule here.

Those unable to make it to this year’s Shambhala Music Festival should mark their calendars for August 2017, as it will signify the festival’s 20th year on the Farm, which means 20 years of amazing music, incredible people, and memories to last lifetimes. From August 11th to 13th, 2017, help Shambhala celebrate their graceful dance through two decades of beautiful people doing beautiful things in a beautiful place. Tickets will go on sale a little earlier this year, so keep yours eyes peeled at shambhalamusicfestival.com for live ticket sales for 2017, starting on September 1st, 2016, 12 p.m. PST.

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Fast approaching its 19th year in production, Canada’s Shambhala Music Festival (August 5-8) continues onward with its impressive transformation from its once humble beginnings on the Bundschuh family’s farm in Salmo, British Columbia into one of Canada’s largest, most popular and highest revered electronic music gatherings. As eager ticketholders await for the commencement of this year’s festival overflowing with top notch musical acts like Caspa b2b Rusko, Excision, Liquid Stranger, Emancipator, Nightmares On Wax, Opiuo, Questlove, What So Not and Cut Chemist (just to name a few), Shambhala will be taking some of their 2016 artists on the road throughout the summer to places like Canada, California, Washington and Colorado to start warming up the party.

On Saturday July 2nd, Shambhala will be landing in Victoria’s Sugar Nightclub for a party featuring Fractal Forest stage headliner Ghastly, as well as Village Stage act Generic and Dua. Jumping over to Edmonton on Friday July 15th, a massive crew of cohorts, namely UBK, Pas De Nom, All Blown Up and Future Roots, will be coming together to produce a stellar Shambhaffiliate event at the Starlite Room. That same night in Seattle, Washington, the USC Events crew will be bringing an amazing show at Foundation Nightclub. A couple weeks later, Supreme Hustle and The Hifi will link up to collude on an excellent evening of entertainment in Calgary on Saturday July 30 for the YYC SMF Warm-Up at the Hifi Club. Heading down stateside again, Denver’s Sub.mission will be delivering a large scale, triple-headliner event on Tuesday August 4, at Cervantes Masterpiece Ballroom with Truth, Om Unit & Shades. Stay up-to-date with all of Shambhala 2016’s official warm-up parties here and check out this year’s lineup below.

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Truth – War Of the Minds EP | Purchase 

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NGHTMRE x truth – It’s A Trap

NGHTMRE has been a busy man, with all kinds of collaborations in the works, as well as working on an EP, touring around playing live shows, and now working with an anti-smoking campaign called Truth. “Its A Trap” is a clever way of targeting the younger audience by incorporating internet memes and lyrics submitted by teens via social media in a campaign launched by NGHTMRE himself. Combining those elements with catchy a trap beat happening in the background is sure to lure in a more engaged audience.

Surprisingly enough, this track might be something you could end up hearing on main stages. Its got a steady beat with a build up to a heavy bass drop at the climax that could definitely get a crowd going. Nghtmre has proven to be a stand-up guy. Very modest, and standing up for an important issue that has been plaguing the youth for years, with the full intention of making a change in the world.

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Excision – Codename X (Truth Remix)

In February of 2015 Excision unleashed onto the electronic music world his highly anticipated, equally volatile, and extremely versatile eleven track album Codename X. With the release of his second solo studio album, the Canadian bass warrior served up a plethora of unrelenting, genre defying bass music anthems that explode with a uniquely heavy electronic style. Almost one year after the menacing release, fans of Ex’s album, namely, it’s heavy metal inspired title track, are eager to feast their ears on Rottun Recordings‘ official “Codename X” remix album, featuring some of bass music’s biggest heavy hitters like Virtual Riot, xKore, RYLE & Sullivan King, Miu, and New Zealand dubstep duo, Truth.

Truth’s profoundly shadowy and tastefully aggressive perspective on the art of low-end music production proves to be a perfect match for Excision’s “Codename X,” as they transformed the thumping original into a growling, deep personification of their musical personality that bridges the gap between deep and heavy dubstep. Their “Codename X” remix shines an especially Truth-esque release, as it boasts seductive sub bass and a creeping, jarring melody that pulsates with infectiously dark energy. Pick up Truth’s remix along with the rest of Excision’s entire Codename X Remixes album here.

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This year marked the 10th anniversary of Northern California’s widely popular Symbiosis Gathering, which took place from September 17th through the 20th on the beautiful Woodward Reservoire in Oakdale, CA. Symbiosis’s fantastic decennial cycle brought veterans and newcomers to the festival together for a weekend packed with unprecedented majesty, music, art, performances, creativity and lightheartedness. The weekend’s celebration carried with it an underlying theme of playful togetherness that radiated from day to night in the festival’s gorgeous lakeside surroundings. The undeniable spiritually enriching undertones of Symbiosis wove itself in vibrantly throughout the festival’s environment on a physical, emotional, and social level for all of this year’s participants.

For the second year in a row, Symbiosis Gathering took place on a peninsula surrounded on all sides by a lake, which gave attendees a much needed swimming reservoir during the day that was full of elaborate art boats and art floats. The lake also provided festivalgoers with uniquely incredible shoreline camping and lakeside dance floors. On top of its stunning natural surroundings, this year’s celebration was packed with a wide range of musical acts, incredibly intricate and one-of-a kind artistic installations, dynamic speakers, interactive areas, live art, participatory entertainment, and charismatic workshop presenters.

Festivalgoers were treated to top notch electronic acts like Tipper, Nicolas Jaar, GRiZ, Shpongle, Justin Martin, Emancipator Ensemble, Four Tet, a b2b set between Minnesota and G Jones, Truth, and Thriftworks. Talks and presentations offered attendees education opportunities in a variety of topics: from astrology, democracy, chocolate, and sustainable design, to slam poetry, “Yoga Of Bass” and nutrition; all of which aimed to foster a fellowship of intelligent, creative, and lively interactions. The high-art entertainment troupe, Lucent Dossier Experience, the all-star fire ritual performers, Pyronauts, and a team of nine mermaids, called Iridescence: A Mermaid Tribe, were just a few of the eclectic performance acts to be featured this year. Last, but not least, Symbiosis housed an ‘Alchemy Village,’ which included top notch amenities for all bodily needs: a tea clinic, nourishment lab, permaculture action club, and wellness oasis. Symbiosis’s ten year reunion excelled in their mission to bring a large number of open minded individuals into one, like-minded place where they could experienced the freedom to unleash their unbounded, creative spirits.

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Symbiosis Gathering Tickets

This year marks the 10th anniversary of Northern California’s increasingly popular Symbiosis Gathering, taking place from September 17th through the 20th in Oakdale, CA. The festival’s decennial cycle plans to bring together both veterans and newcomers for what’s bound to be its most fantastic installment yet. With an underlying aspiration to unify attendees through a common vision of togetherness, Symbiosis utilizes the majesty of the last days of summer to consolidate musicians, artists, performers and creators of all sorts in the gorgeous natural surroundings of the Woodward Reservoir. This undeniably spiritual and enriching mix is poised to weave a vibrantly inspired environment of physical, emotional, and social well-being for all of this year’s festivalgoers.

For the second year in a row, Symbiosis Gathering will take place on a peninsula surrounded on all sides by a lake, which offers attendees a swimming reservoir full of art boats and art floats, uniquely incredible shoreline camping and four lakeside dance floors. On top of its stunning natural surroundings, this year’s celebration is packed with a wide range of musical acts, artistic installations, dynamic speakers, interactive areas, live art, participatory entertainment, and charismatic workshop presenters. Festivalgoers will be treated to top notch electronic acts like Tipper, Nicolas Jaar, GRiZ, J. Philip, Four Tet, a b2b set between Minnesota and G Jones, Truth, and Thriftworks.

Talks and presentations will span a variety of topics: from astrology, democracy, chocolate, and sustainable design, to slam poetry, “Yoga Of Bass” and nutrition; all of which aim to foster a fellowship of intelligent, creative, and lively interactions. The high-art entertainment troupe, Lucent Dossier Experience, the all-star fire ritual performers, Pyronauts, and a team of nine mermaids, called Iridescence: A Mermaid Tribe, are just a few of the eclectic performance acts to be featured this year. Last, but not least, Symbiosis will house an ‘Alchemy Village,’ which includes a tea clinic, nourishment lab, permaculture action club, and wellness oasis. With such a large variety of inspiration, self expression and creativity captured in one unforgettable weekend, it’s safe to say that Symbiosis Gathering is gearing up for its most successful and influential year yet!

Purchase tickets for this year’s Symbiosis Gathering, taking place from September 17-20 in Oakdale, CA here and check out the full lineup below!

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