Centennial Olympic Park
April 22nd-24th
The Food
What is a good music festival without some delicious food? I enjoyed some Fox Bros BBQ the first day for lunch and then some pizza from one of those unnamed stands for dinner. When fatigue hit Sunday after my shift I enjoyed a refreshing Bearclaw iced coffee. A coffee truck might seem out of place at a beer sponsored music festival, but caffeine is a must have to make it all weekend long.
The next day I had some amazing parmesan truffle fries from The Fry Guy and some mac and cheese from Mac the Cheese Truck. These two sides were huge and enough to get me through the rest of the day.
All the SweetWater 420 you can drink!! They had all different kinds of SweetWater beer, they had Rex Goliath wine and they had some mixed drinks. They also had a soda station that served Coke products and because of that the food vendors were only allowed to sell water.
Artist Village
There was a fairly large area with people selling art, clothes random hippy items and essentials like sunscreen. It was definitely worth a look, but I never really find anything worth buying, plus you end up having to carry it around the rest of the day.
There were also booths set up by the Atlanta Hawks, Lyft and Snickers. They were promoting their products and giving out free things like a new candy bar and key chains. Mellow Mushroom had a really cool art project set up in the Artist Village. It was a big mural waiting to be colored in. There were a ton of sharpies and we all got to go up and color in a little section! One of the coolest booths there for sure.
The Tasting Room
You could buy tokens to get smaller samples of seasonal SweetWater beers or beers that they don't produce a lot of. It was pretty cool to see all of the different beers they have produced over the years, but a lot of the beers tasted the same or were some kind of weird hybrid that probably didn't sell well. Worth a try, but I would rather stick to the tried and true classics.
The Music
We completely skipped Friday, we wouldn't have made it for many shows after work and we didn't really want to see Kid Rock. We found out the next day that his set was cut short by lightning anyways so we really didn't miss much.
Dawes
Ashley and I had seen Dawes together months ago so we were excited to see them here! They put on a great show and we were pretty close to them since not many people seemed to know who they were and it was still pretty early in the day.
AWOLNATION
I really only knew the one song by them (Sail!), but checked them out anyways and they were amazing! They were super high energy and really fun to watch. It definitely made me want to check out more of their music.
Bastille
The headliner for Saturday was Bastille and they were one of the main bands I wanted to see that weekend. We ended up getting pretty close for the show and they did not disappoint!
We walked around to a few other bands playing on Sunday, but really I just wanted to see Luda. The last time I saw him was at my freshman UGA Homecoming concert. He was soooo good, his love for Atlanta is the most adorable thing ever and he just kept playing hit after hit after hit. It was perfect and basically everything I could have wanted from a Ludacris concert.
I also volunteered at the festival, you can read about my volunteer experience here.
xx Kristen
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