Traveled from New Orleans, Louisiana
Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival 2017
Sunshine Grove
Okeechobee, Florida
Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival 2017
“I’ve been getting tattooed for 15 years. To tell you the truth, I like the pain. I like to focus and control it. Tattooing gives me a connection with the artist. After an artist has put their work into your skin, they’ll never leave you. It’s as deep as art can get.”
Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival 2017
Traveled from West Palm Beach, Florida
Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival 2017
Sunshine Grove
Okeechobee, Florida
“My friends call me mushie. I love lil’ amanita muscarias. It’s cause they’re so cute. Spores can be compacted and they can go through black holes. They’re the only things that can exist in the vacuum of space.”
Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival 2017
Traveled from Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival 2017
Sunshine Grove
Okeechobee, Florida
“I was talking to my friend who I came here with. We all got in a crazy car accident months ago. There were seven of us in the car, and it was somewhat of a near death experience. I wasn’t seriously injured, but everything flashed before my eyes and it made a lot of things clearer. It helped me really focus on the connections I want to make, and how you don’t have all the time you think you have. You have to do the most with it. It puts things in perspective when you have that experience with your friends. You come out of it on another level, and you really appreciate everything more.”
Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival 2017
Traveled from Coral Springs, Florida
Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival 2017
Sunshine Grove
Okeechobee, Florida
“Well, Watkins Glen was my first festival. It was like 600,000 people. It was the Grateful Dead, the Band and the Allman brothers. I was just a kid then. I hitchhiked to California and back after. It was my first Dead show, even though I was there to see The Band. The Band was my band. I was from the East Coast, so the band was the New York band. The next year when they were traveling the big sound system, they got me in hard for it in ’74. All those great times, ya know, taking my family to the shows in the Volkswagen buses. I’m in the Grateful Dead cookbook, from the Vermont shows. “
Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival 2017
Traveled from New Hampshire
Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival 2017
Sunshine Grove
Okeechobee, Florida
“When you can’t find words, you use the sounds and frequencies in music to communicate things that are better left unsaid.”
Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival 2017
Traveled from Boston, Massachusetts
Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival 2017
Sunshine Grove
Okeechobee, Florida
“I try to get people who are working to break into the entertainment industry, but who aren’t employed, acting jobs and modeling gigs. For actors, I procure a couple of podcasts. It’s Boca Casting, but it’s really a big community. Being able to have that person-to-person interaction is what it’s all about. I met a dude camped next to my tent, an artist who’s struggling. I like to make the connection and find the beauty in whatever they’re doing.”
Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival 2017
Traveled from Boca Raton, Florida
Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival 2017
Sunshine Grove
Okeechobee, Florida
“I work with clothes and with clay. I do linework, dot work. I flow. I’ve done some stick n’ pokes. I have a lot of mediums, and I’m learning how to balance them. I’m a creator. The thing about creating something—in physical form—is that it’s the only thing exists like that. No matter what medium it is.”
Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival 2017
Traveled from Jacksonville, Florida
Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival 2017
Sunshine Grove
Okeechobee, Florida
“I’m most excited to see Vulfpeck. I discovered them on Spotify. It was random, but it started with one song: ‘It Gets Funkier.’ It kept playing. Then they started releasing more parts, and now there’s three. Every time they add to it. It’s kind of the same rhythm, but they do it differently. I saw them last year at Fool’s Paradise in St. Augustine. I liked their vibe… the way they were talking on stage. The bassist Joe Dart was chilling by himself, I think it was during Chris Robinson’s set, and I told him, ‘Whatever it takes, make sure Florida is always on your list.’ It’s all about the music. The music is, at the end, what drives everything.”
Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival 2017
Traveled from Miami, Florida
Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival 2017
Sunshine Grove
Okeechobee, Florida
“I’m on a team with a bunch of other artists, and we worked on the floral installations. It’s Assyrian floral design. My friends made the flowers and plants in front of the beach stage, and I helped put together the pieces in Yogachobee. One of them is a yoni. But you have to know what a yoni looks like… because you’re not going to see an actual vagina. It’s feminine energy. The world needs a little more feminine energy. We need more nurtuting—more love, caring, understanding and compassion. And that’s what we’re here to bring.”
Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival 2017
Traveled from Athens, Ohio
Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival 2017
Sunshine Grove
Okeechobee, Florida
Spirits of Sounds 