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The Road to Disc Jam Is Paved With Grooves and Good Vibes

Did you ever sit around with your friends drinking beer and ask one another just completely ridiculous questions? Things like, "If you could have coffee with anyone alive or dead, who would it be?" or "If you could invade anyone's closets for a week and get to wear their wardrobe, who would it be?" Then after a few beers it becomes things like, "If you could be any animal in space, what animal in space would you be...and why? YOU CAN'T PICK SQUIRREL!" Don't say no. You know you have been there.

During those conversations, did you ever ask, "If you were setting up a festival and could pick any bands you wanted to be on it, who would you pick?" My husband and I have this discussion all the time. We love the idea of taking different genres and mixing them up but keeping it all dancy and full of good vibes and incredible musicians. There is so much crazy good music going on right now that the options are just all over the place. Well, honestly I think the folks who put the Disc Jam Festival together must have been reading my mind because the lineup this year is just nuts.



Kung Fu, Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad, Spiritual Rez, The Motet, Turquaz, Aqueous, so so so many more. It's four days of straight booty shaking good times. 

I mean, look at this!




Schedules care of  Disc Jam Music Festival


And A Perfect Mess will be there, June 8-11 in Stephentown, NY to bring you all the news, interviews, and good crowd vibes of the festival. Excited does not even begin to explain how I feel to have the privileged to cover the music at Disc Jam this year. This blending of incredible artists and amazing vibes will be an audible explosion that I cannot wait to be a part of. 

Oh, you want to be there too? Outstanding!!! You can still get your tickets HERE!!!

For the next three weeks, I will be re-running the pieces I wrote on a few of the featured artists at this year's Disc Jam festival and keeping you up to date on all the events and goings on leading up to it. If you have any questions or feedback on what you most want to hear from the festival, please reach out to A Perfect Mess via e-mail, Facebook, or Twitter at any time.

If you are going, see you there!!!




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