My Day Experience At A Music Festival Called Electric Daisy Carnival ( Edc )

Being an avid music lover and a communication studies student, I had a desire to integrate the knowledge acquired during the course of my classes with an event that enabled me to understand the dynamics between culture and music events. This intrigues me to study and experience the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival as an artifact of music. Coachella is an extremely popular event amongst individuals of my age bracket where people of diverse races, ethnic background, creeds unite together for the love of music. Considering it the perfect opportunity, I decided to experience the true essence of Coachella. The event is said to be the most popular

I felt my heart racing, heard my name being called, and suddenly, anxiety turned into elation. Within moments, I was walking across the international stage in Orlando in front of 16,000 people. I had won 5th at DECA Internationals!

In a world of political discourse with racism and hate running rampant, a few great men and women came together to bring unity and harmony like never before: in the form of massive music festivals. In the late 1972, the black community came together for a concert known as Watts Summer Festival. In 1969, the largest music festival of its time was held, and was known as Woodstock. Later that year, the Rolling Stones put together a massive free concert in San Francisco known as the Altamont Concert. All of the concerts and music festivals were not aimed at making money or becoming famous, but about the unity of people through the art of music.

The long 172 days had finally passed, and the day I had been waiting for, for months, had finally come. We were in Chicago for my One Direction concert, the day couldn’t have come faster. The agonizingly slow hours that passed that day was too much to bear. Before arriving at Soldier Field, I was highly anticipating meeting one of my closest friends, Jessica, for the first time. It’s actually rather incredible to me, we first were introduced on social media, we didn’t know each other at all, all we knew was that we both loved the same band, and we were both going to the same concert. Prior to meeting for the first time, we were restricted to Skyping each other almost every other day and texting every day.

The festival was setup in a close area with everything right next to each other and a lot of the

Standing backstage, mentally going through every measure of music for our performance, me and the other percussionists representing Prosper were about to play our three ensembles that we prepared for the North Texas Percussion Festival. With the group before us finishing their last song, we were all mentally preparing to show the judges the best of what we had spent hours practicing for after school and late into the night. Before we went on stage to set up everything, I thought of where I was just three years ago, not knowing how to properly hold mallets or work well with a group of people.

Kedziepalooza was an exciting and interesting experience for me to attend. I very much enjoyed eating the Chipotle—because I’m a college kid and it was free Mexican food. I had a great time dunking an absolute stranger in the dunk tank as well. What surprised me the most was the vast and diverse opportunities that were offered and represented at the event. I gained great interest in the Advertising Club booth and The Collegian. All organizations sparked an interest in me, and promoted stepping out of your comfort zone and trying new things.

The concert was called “Celebration of Dance”. The show was performed from December 3 to December 6. The show was performed at Cypress College. It was my second time that I attend a dance concert. I was very pleasantly surprised at the exceptional quality of dances, choreography, lighting, music, and customs; however, I enjoyed the first dance concert at Cerritos college more. Most the performers were done extremely professionally which shows that the dance department faculty at Cypress College worked really hard to make the concert in it best shapes. All the dances attracted most of the audience and made them enjoy their time watching the concert. Also, it had a variety of different types of dances and music that was performed by talented

On the 5th of December, I attended my second concert in Cypress Recital Hall. It was an amazing experience. I got to fully appreciate the sounds of the violin and the piano. Erika Salas, played the Violin accompanied by Yoko Mizuno, Doris Wang and Michael Cooper each individually performed a different piece on the piano. The first song was Sonata in D major HWV 371 by George Frideric Handel and performed by Erika Salis and Yoko Mizuno. The structure of this sonata was made up of four movements. Affetuoso feeling, tenderly, Allegro lively, fast, Larghetto slowly, steadily, and Allegro energetic, fast. Each section had a specific form the first movement reminds one of a slow symphony. The Allegro is written in a fugue, polyphonic style. The

El Paso best defines itself as the truest wafer of Wild West. Its streets are so ancient that they have witnessed the existence of the likes of Billy the Kid, Wyatt Earp and other lawless times. This is the same place where the unfortunate “Four Dead in Five Seconds” shootout occurred. However, these are not the events that have put El Paso in the limelight but it is the blending of culture and traditions that take place in the city. After all, it is the meeting point of New Mexico and Old Mexico. Annually the city holds the Neon Desert Music Festival and Sun City Music Festival each with over forty music artists from the dominions of soft and hard rocks, hip hop, RnB and blues and other captivating performances (Molinar). But the festival that is awaited with a lot of expectation is the Neon Desert Music Festival. So what is so captivating about the Neon Desert Music Festival that makes tens of thousands of feet pound

On July 14, 2016 I was sitting in my car with my parents on the long three hour fifty minute drive to Morgantown. I was nervous and excited for the experience I was about to have. Would I fit in? Would I make any friends? But I wouldn’t find out until I got there and met the other chosen attendees. And as we slowly made our way down the road I drifted off to sleep.

On November 11th 2016, I attended a jazz concert that was held in Stoney’s wine lounge located in Dallas. I went with my best friend and this was my first time attending a jazz concert but defiantly not my last. The place was very elegant and yet it also had a homey feeling to it, which I loved. The band that playing there that night was the “The Mike Drake Trio”. Featuring professor Drake on drums, Floyd Darling on piano and Gavin Kelso on bass. The concert was held from 8 pm to 10:30 pm. Some songs and tunes that were played include just squeeze me and a child is born. The drums were played with different techniques. First they were played with the traditional drum sticks but in some songs or even just a part of a song they were played

While guitars fill the park with music, my family and many others enjoy music at the yearly music fest, Chicago Blues Festival. Being a small child, watching downtown Chicago traffic was my favorite part on the 3 hour car ride, mostly because as a child growing up in Racine WI, the sidewalks and roads were never as filled as Chicago’s, and I loved it! Walking down various sidewalks, we finally meet the stages with many others and work our way to the front of the stage. Being at the stage with the big speakers was not the most comforting, but greatness was filling my ears with music and at that point that’s all I cared about.

Music festivals were created as a way for people to temporarily escape from the world's conflict. Throughout the decades, festivals continued to grow in popularity and new festivals were created.

Both International Festivals & Events Association (IFEA) and International Special Events Society (ISES) deal with people coming together connecting for one things or another. On the other hand, International Festivals & Events Association (IFEA) is a non-profit (not-to-profit) association. That deals with helping people connect all over the world, and giving each member information about everything they need to know. As they state on www.ifea.com/p/membership/requestmembershipinformation, “Displaying not only the location, but also specific information for festivals, events, vendors, suppliers, event planners, universities, parks & recreation and more all over the world”. While the International Special Events Society (ISES) now renamed as International Live Events Association (ILEA), is an association that helps professionals connect with others worldwide. Opening and having opportunities for each member to network with different kinds of business resources as needed. Directly stated on www.ileahub.com/ilea/about-ilea/faqs, “International Special Events Society is the premier society for Creative Event Professionals. Membership in (ISES) (ILEA) also allows you to build relationships with other professionals worldwide within the creative events industry. The Society encourages professional development and certification and presents countless opportunities for networking and connecting with industry resources”.