Electric Forest Festival | June 25-28
Victoria Zegler
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Hailed as one of the “20 legendary world festivals to see in your lifetime,” (Distractify) Electric Forest 2015 promises to deliver the ultimate festival experience with it’s unparalleled integration of music, art and community.
Once again, Electric Forest delivers a diverse lineup of over 100 established and emerging artists performing across seven stages showcasing a mix of rock, roots and jam-style acts alongside some of dance music’s most relevant performers. For the 5th year in a row, Electric Forest welcomes back fan favorite The String Cheese Incident (performing three shows), along with Bassnectar, Skrillex, Kaskade, Flume and Big Gigantic.
At the heart of the festival, the Sherwood Forest houses specially commissioned art pieces and creatively themed environments that enhance the natural beauty of the event’s majestic wooded location. These popular creative elements continue to expand for 2015, as will the number and variety of colorful characters and performance artists that fill the grounds.
Electric Forest’s prolific fan participation platform, the Plug In program, also expands this year offering many new and exciting ways for fans to help shape the Electric Forest experience. Back for the second year in a row, “Electric Forces,” the festival’s U.S. Veterans Program, extends Electric Forest’s authentic expression of community to U.S. military veterans. By uniting veterans and civilians through festival volunteer opportunities, storytelling, on-site workshops, and more, these shared experiences and the healing power of music nurture connectedness within the EF community and beyond.