What's different about a "bicycle music festival"?
1) The human-powered P/A system, which besides being
the most fun and green way to amplify a live concert, also transforms
every song into an audience participation song, and radically
democratizes the concert-goer experience (
the power to amplify the people onstage
rests entirely in the will of the people offstage; democracy at its
healthiest you might say!).
2) Bicycle-mobility of the entire festival: the
entire audience/band/stage/crew completely packs-up everything they
bring (stage and musical equipment too) onto bicycles, and travels as a
large group to the next festival stop. There are no sag-wagons or
equipment trucks hauling the amplifiers and other heavy gear –
everything is hauled by bicycle.
3) Pilgrimage-style sequential venue schedule:
Unlike other festivals where bands are scheduled to play overlapping
slots on stages that are set-up just around the corner from one another
(often resulting in overlapping sound), the Bicycle Music Festival
unfolds like a delightful treasure hunt: in a linear and adventurous
journey-form, with only one meaningful development in the plot unveiled
at a time, and stages located a full bike-ride away from each other.
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