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Bonnaroo crowd photos - Bonnaroo girls - Bonnaroo Music Festival in Manchester, Tennessee on June 13-16, 2013 - © 2013 David Oppenheimer - Performance Impressions Concert Photography Archives - www.performanceimpressions.com
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Bonnaroo crowd photos - Bonnaroo girls - Bonnaroo Music Festival in Manchester, Tennessee on June 13-16, 2013 - © 2013 David Oppenheimer - Performance Impressions Concert Photography Archives - www.performanceimpressions.com
Bonnaroo crowd photos - Bonnaroo girls - Bonnaroo Music Festival in Manchester, Tennessee on June 13-16, 2013 - © 2013 David Oppenheimer - Performance Impressions Concert Photography Archives - www.performanceimpressions.com
Bonnaroo crowd photos - Bonnaroo girls - Bonnaroo Music Festival in Manchester, Tennessee on June 13-16, 2013 - © 2013 David Oppenheimer - Performance Impressions Concert Photography Archives - www.performanceimpressions.com
Bonnaroo Girl at Afrojack show - DJ Nick van de Wall performing on Lunar Stage at the 2010 Bonnaroo Music Festival on June 10, 2010
Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival 2013
Manchester, TN
June 14th, 2013
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This was the last photo I took at Bonnaroo.
This might be lengthy, so I hope someone sticks around to read it all to make me feel okay about spending time to use Flickr more properly. Bonnaroo was held in Manchester, TN about a five hour drive away from where I live in NC. I was traveling with four friends, meeting up with more who were returning from a festival—Wakarusa. Anyways, two of them had been to Bonnaroo last summer, and told me about the heat and such. But no one could head a warning strong enough to help me understand what this heat was like. I scrambled things together the morning before we left, which was scheduled to be 11 PM on the 8th. I listened to Radiohead the whole way there, and tried to sleep despite the climbing of mountains and curves in the road. When we finally got there, after the hour shift it was around 3AM. We parked in our designated camping location after which we walked a long thirty to forty minute walk, getting extremely lost, thus taking about an hour to reach our friends who were already there in a camp site on the other side. When we arrived, having little room to set up our tents, we made do. The tent my two friends and I slept in was lacking all good construction. It was okay at that point, because we all ended up falling right to sleep.
Day one of Bonnaroo officially. We were all woken up early, around 8:30 or 9:00 AM, by the sheer fact that tents become hot boxes around that time during this part of the year. My friend Will later exclaimed to me how "the tents wake you right up!" Extremely true. Four of us who drove up together had to make the forty minute hike back to the car. Little did we know, being the first morning of Bonnaroo, camp sites was filling up left and right, and finding our car was proven difficult. My friend Mo & I were ready to go with a packed cooler, a tent, sleeping bags, bags of food, and more. Noticing our heavy load, we decided to leave the other two and start heading back ourselves. Upon realizing we were extremely lost, and after a frustrating two hours baking in the sun with no money or water, Bonnaroo seemed like a nightmare. After a dazed walk, we made it back to the site and spent the following hours recovering. The campsite was a wonderful place for this, because there was food, drinks, and a lot of much-needed shade. However, camp life wasn't so good when it came to our attention that the only filtered water nearby was at Centerroo, which had all of the music performances, Bonnarooy fun things, and FOOD. Aside from sleeping through Gogol Bordello on Saturday night, I saw practically everyone I wanted to see. I realized being back in the real world is strange and almost shocking to me... I'm back on the internet, I'm applying for jobs, I'm getting stuff done, etc. Once getting past the seemingly unbearable heat by seeking shade and chugging eight huge Nalgenes a day you wait an hour to fill up each time, Bonnaroo was a utopia for me. Real people, doing real things, getting dirty outside, sleeping outside, talking, laughing, listening to the music by which they were surrounded. It's like everyone became a real person for a while.
I hold so many memories in this place, and I can't wait to return. For now, Bonnaroo...Thank you.
Bonnaroo crowd photos - Bonnaroo girls - Bonnaroo Music Festival in Manchester, Tennessee on June 13-16, 2013 - © 2013 David Oppenheimer - Performance Impressions Concert Photography Archives - www.performanceimpressions.com
Bonnaroo crowd photos - Bonnaroo girls - Bonnaroo Music Festival in Manchester, Tennessee on June 13-16, 2013 - © 2013 David Oppenheimer - Performance Impressions Concert Photography Archives - www.performanceimpressions.com