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Festival Friday


If you have been following my blog you know that it is about leadership but on the weekends write about fun things to do. I like to call it leisureship. Summer is here and part of the fabric of America is that on any given weekend during the summer you can find a festival to your liking. During the summer as part of my ongoing leisureship series I will point out some festivals. I will be writing about the ones primarily in Minnesota but regardless of where you live you can find a festival that will be similar.
Music festivals are one of the highlights of summer festivals and you can find one that suits your style anywhere and almost any weekend. How do you find what festival to attend. There is a website my wife found that lists the top 50 festivals in the United States.
One of the biggest and most famous festivals to occur in the United States was Woodstock. A big music festival going on this weekend in Manchester Tennessee, you still have time to attend, is the Bonnaroo Music andArts Festival.
In the Twin Cities where I live there is a music festival to fit my music likes. It is called the Joyful Noise Family Fest. It is a Christian music festival sponsored by KTIS. We went one year and the music was fantastic. The one thing you must be careful about when attending outdoor concerts is the weather. The year that we went the headliner was Nicole C. Mullin and by the time she hit the stage and started to perform tornado warnings blew and we had to take cover in one of the buildings.
We never did finish because of the rain and the storms but we enjoyed ourselves very much. I will not be attending tomorrow’s festival but will try to get back there in the near future.
Take some time this weekend to explore the many festivals you have available to you and check back often to my blog as I write about festivals I attend or would like to attend.
Please share some music festivals you have attended.
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