We woke up on the bus with beautiful snow capped mountains all around us… we were in Denver today at the Mile High Festival. There was giant stages, and tents, and art sculptures adding to the overall atmosphere. Along with Mat, The Fray were headlining the festival later tonight, while Widespread Panic headlined the second stage. We were in good company.
A couple of the advantages to being an artist playing at a huge festival(besides the awesome free food, and free massages), is that you get a driver and golf cart that will drive you wherever you need to go!
Another, thing is the crowds. The crowds are HUGE. You play to lots and lots of more people then what you normally get too. So not only do you get to play to many of your own fans, but you get the opportunity to expose your music to thousands of new people that have never heard it before.
I shot this during Mat’s set, from the very front of stage, there was thousands upon thousands of people there. It was quite an experience.
Mat had a really busy schedule for the day, at around noon he first had to head to the festival radio station and record a couple of acoustic songs.
After the radio station interview and performance, he decided to take a walk down to the soccer field nearby. Mat was a pretty avid soccer player in college. He was also recording some video content for Rhapsody as part of a special promotion at the Mile High Festival, “a day in the life of Mat Kearney” basically. So he decided to take the camera down to the soccer field and record some content reminiscing about the old days.
Unfortunately within about 2 minutes we were yelled at by the security guard, and ordered to leave the field(all of this is caught on video with the flip cam, which you can see at rhapsody.com/mhf). After all of this it was just about time for Mat to take the stage. So we jumped in the golfcart and headed towards the stage.
We got there just in time! Mat took the stage right around 3 pm and played a great set! See you in Las Vegas!
-Jonny
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