Happyland Music Fest III

This past weekend we hosted the third annual Happyland Music Fest and oh, what a time we had! We started setting up Friday afternoon. A few of Chris’ friends went ahead and set up their tents and stayed the night so they could all get up early Saturday to finish getting things ready. Others started arriving around noon, set up their tents and then just hung out listening to the playlist of summer tunes that Chris had put together. Around 6 p.m. the live music began. There were eight bands/music acts and so the music went on until close to 1 a.m.

I don’t have an exact count but we are estimating that nearly 75 people were here to enjoy the fun times this year. We are all still trying to recover but I think we all agree that Happyland Music Fest is a great way to kick off the summer.

Here are a few photos from this epic event:

Setting up the Piercy Pavillion the evening before

Grilling
(photo by Jamie Pittman)

High pour for “Bonesaw”

Facepainting
(photo by Lacey Martin)

Cooling off in the kiddie pool
(photo by Lacey Martin)

Nice pants, Matt

My son and HMF event organizer
(photo by A.J. Hyatt)

Matt on a bike
(photo by A.J. Hyatt)

Ryan, strummin’ that ol’ six string
(photo by A.J. Hyatt)

We recycle

Tent City – We eventually ended up with 15 tents.

HMF version of a bottle tree?

Jezy of “Chrome Canyon”

Bubbles

Aaron of “Frail”

Some camp in style.

David just chillin’ on the lawn mower

Blake of “Bonesaw”

Peace, love and hugs

Bonfire of the Piercys

The morning after

Sunday morning – reliving the event

Apparently this is a good place to kick back.

Chris and friends

The diehards

After cleaning up the worst of the carnage and showering off the “Happyland Funk” (as someone referred to it) fourteen of us went out for lunch together Sunday afternoon. As we sat around the table eating our Mexican food, I enjoyed listening to everyone sharing their favorite memories from the night before. And they are already talking about Happyland Music Fest IV.

*I don’t know why I didn’t post about the first HMF but you can read about and see pictures from HMF II here.

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