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Looks like the weather might actually hold out! Here's to hoping
So how was it?
It was fantastic overall! My brother and I had arrived around 1:30pm. The overall layout of the festival worked well as a whole, but they could've used another exit point and the lack of water refill stations was a bummer. The weather held out all day - mostly cloudy with a cool breeze, which was ideal for a crowded festival setting. They should probably limit the number tickets to a slightly smaller number next year, as the place was packed.
My brother and I were on the rail for the North Mississippi Allstars, who were awesome. The Tedeschi Trucks Band were the highlight for me, and we got about 25 feet from the stage. Their set had a lot of covers, but they were phenomenal - the band was super tight and everyone was on fire:
Made Up Mind Don't Know What It Means The Letter (Joe Cocker cover) Keep On Growing (Derek and the Dominos cover) (with David Hidalgo from Los Lobos) I Pity the Fool (Bobby “Blue” Bland cover) (with David Hidalgo from Los Lobos) Same Old Song (with Luther Dickinson from North Mississippi Allstars) Color of the Blues (George Jones cover) Sticks and Stones (Titus Turner cover) Let Me Get By
Encore: With a Little Help From My Friends (The Beatles cover)
The parking lot situation was pretty horrendous afterwards (took us an hour at least to get out of the parking lot, nobody was directing traffic), but overall I had a great time. I'd go again if the lineup was good enough!
Honorable Mentions for the other best sets were Twiddle and North Mississippi All-Stars.
Last Edit: Jul 11, 2016 9:29:43 GMT -5 by Deleted - Back to Top
The fourth annual Levitate Music & Arts Festival went off without a hitch at the Fairgrounds in Marshfield Mass, a small seaside south of Boston, a few miles from where Susan Tedeschi grew up. Tedeschi Trucks Band topped a bill that included Los Lobos, North Mississippi Allstars, Lettuce and Twiddle and ensuring that the festival sold out its 10,000 ticket allotment before the gates had opened. The event has grown each year and as a result, the 2016 incarnation hosted multiple stages and took up a larger plot of land.
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After a long, unseasonably chilly day, the highlight of the event turned out to be the very last song of the night. Artists are known to bring the heat when their loved ones are in the house and it seemed like the entire Tedeschi Tribe was on hand...After a brief encore break, the band returned to the stage as keyboardist Kofi Burbridge kicked into a slow, droning organ drawl. It was hard to place what was coming but Derek Trucks broke the calm with a some hard bent notes that felt like a warplane violently breaking the calm in the sky as TTB began their own take on Joe Cocker’s rendition of “With A Little Help From My Friends.” It was the kind of moment that took things from zero to one hundred in a matter of seconds.
Levitate 2016 went off without a hitch and in light of their expansion that’s not always the case. Plenty of successful events sign their own death warrant by expanding either too fast or in the wrong direction. Every year Levitate seems to make the event bigger and better while staying true to their roots and they’ve yet to become victims of their own success. All the more reason to have Levitate 2017 on your festival radar.
