VIRGIN MOBILE FREEFEST 2009
Are you a cool kid?
Probably not.
So we’re gonna do you a solid and tell you where all the cool kids are going to be on August 30: Columbia, Maryland.
The Virgin Mobile Free Fest will be thrown into high gear and primed to kick music lovers in the teeth with a swarm of those bands you like: Weezer, Jet, Public Enemy, Franz Ferdinand, and Blink 182, just to name five of them.
From 11am to 10pm, a plethora of music-givers will be spouting their well-endowed tunes all over the Merriweather Post Pavilion.
But here’s the real attraction:
Tango Echo will be applying itself to this music festival in the form of a bad-ass booth. All day long, we’ll be accosting passersby with bumper cars, pirate cannon and something called a “TV Monster.” What is it? Drop by and find out, if you’ve got the guts.
With all of this topnotch monkey business, it sure seems like someone’s got to lose. Must be wreaking havoc on the environment, right? Big festival, tons of people, stomping the life out of whatever’s growing green nearby…
You couldn’t be more wrong.
Virgin Mobile is firing up the green machine in an effort to minimalize the festival’s environmental impact. Bring a water bottle and refill it at any of the water stations located on the grounds. All food and organic waste will be composted locally. All paper used at the festival is 100% recycled, including the toilet paper. Solar panels and B99 diesel will be the power sources of the day. Any unclean energy utilized for the event will be paid for through donations of clean energy from Virgin Mobile to communities via the Bonneville Environmental Foundation.
You can even bring your recycling with you and they’ll take care of it.
Seriously, if you have any respect for your home planet at all, you’ll be standing in the Merriweather Post Pavilion that Sunday.
And don’t forget to get yourself over to the Tango Echo booth for mayhem of all different sorts.
So if you enjoy great music, Tango Echo, bumper cars, and a 7500 lbs, 15 ft. chicken, do yourself a favor: Get to the Merriweather Pavilion in Columbia, MD on August 30. It’s a day you’ll regret not being a part of.
And you know it.
The last remaining Free Fest Tickets are on sale today through Ticketmaster. Get ’em while their hot, and pirate cannon will be sure to cool you off at the fest!
