Got this permanent memory up and framed on a wall now

Does anyone else remember when that naked guy who climbed up a huge tree at the final sunrise set at the Satellite Stage @ Waka 2015? If so, please post documentation of that glorious ball-fro. The dude was super human.

So he's about to propose to me and I tend to write down every little thing he mentions he likes for future ideas. This is what I wrote in my notes:

Sun guitar mountain tapestry wakarusa

And well... I'm sort of clueless about where to find this. I've Googled and found nothing. So I thought I'd turn to the festival crowd to see if anyone knows where I could find one or buy one??? I'd love to surprise him with this!!! 😍😍😍😍

He's a musician with focus on guitars so I know why he wants it.

Edit. If anyone can even find a print or picture of it I could paint it for him. I can't even find what it looks like.

this song was written after my first big music festival experience. love you all.

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this song was written after my first big music festival experience. love you all.

I finally finished the 2014 photos and have updated my Wakarusa Photos website. I unfortunately don't have quite as many from 2014 as I did from 2013. In particular, you'll notice I have nothing from Saturday at all.

I went in 2013 with my teenage son; in 2014, I went with my adult brother. I'll leave it to your imagination as to why I may not have taken as many photos in 2014 but I can neither confirm nor deny that inebriation was a factor.

Anyway, hope you like what's there.

Photography and festivals are two of my favorite hobbies so when I go to festivals, I tend to take a lot of photos. I've always intended to process, organize, and display them in a nice way but just never got around to it.

Someone recently asked for Wakarusa 2014 photos in another post and that was all the motivation I needed so I started looking into what it would take to create a website for easily displaying my photos in a nicely organized way. It was a lot of work but I've finally got something I like.

I attended the 2013 and 2014 Wakarusas so I started with my 2013 photos. So, without further ado, here are all 234 of my Wakarusa 2013 Photos. Please let me know what you think! You may even see yourself in some of them.

I've got about 165 photos from Wakarusa 2014 that I'll be working on next. It'll be another few days and I'll post another thread when those are ready and the website is updated.

2014 waka was my first festival ever, and in my excitement I barely took any photos. Anyone have some good ones to share/links to galleries? Would love to take a trip down memory lane.

I know this thread may never even be looked at cause RIP wakarusa. But would the possibility of it to ever come back be a thing? The lawsuit has been settled. And I know I would love to see it back on mulberry mountain. lawsuit settled

I am looking to purchase 2010 and 2011 festival pamphlets (maps, schedules, misc). Thank you.

I know this is a long shot but wakarusa was my first festival and I ended up losing my wristband from 2015. I’ve now been to like 14 festival and have every wristband from those festivals. Soooo would anyone be willing to part with a 2015 wrist band?

I mean, it’s better than nothing right...?

EDIT: I have now closed the survey after I received 200 responses. Thank you all! If I remember I will post my paper here for your reading pleasure & perhaps feedback ;)

Greetings Wakafarians!

*Note: if you have already seen & taken this survey in the Bassnectar, Festivals, or Electric Forest subreddits please do not take it again! Thanks!

I am currently a history graduate student studying “Consciousness Alteration: A Universal Human Right” as an independent course this semester. My general area of study for the past two years has been the history of the War on Drugs in the United States. This course/project is a related segment of that overarching perspective. In short, I believe that the recent rise of music festivals over the past two decades in the United States is a cultural movement akin to the emergence of the Counterculture in the 1960s.

The goal of this research project is to gain an understanding of the importance of music festivals to the people who attend them. More generally, the goal of this questionnaire is to compare responses from festival goers to identify patterns, collective values or experiences, and general areas of overlap or similarity. One purpose of this is to understand music festival culture from the direct experiences of the people who attend such events. Another is to better understand the type of people who attend music festivals and their reasons for attending them.

The end goal of this project/course is a paper that I plan to submit for publication to scholarly journals. So, thank you for being a part of original historical research!

Here is the link to the survey if you would like to participate: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/F86GMSV

All information will be kept private. Quotes will only be used with permission. Thank you all in advance!

Waka Waka!!

-Cameron

Per an email I just got. April could get hairy on the mountain. Swamparusa 2018!

Randomly spoke with someone who works for booking up in Arkansas says there are too many legal battles still stemming from 2015's debacle. What a mess. :(

www.wakarusa.com

Website down.

Everyone I spoke to said that people who used to work for Wakarusa are planning it next year or the year after, but aren't sure of where it will be yet. It won't be on the mountain, but highberry might continue to be.

Anyone else hear any details?

EMT looking to work some future festivals in Arkansas. Thanks!

 As a 5 year vet of Wakarusa I can honestly say there has never been a place I felt more at home and loved than ontop of Mulberry Mountain for those 5 days a year. Every year I would have my birthday there and this year would of been my 30th surrounded by all my hippie friends and awesome music keeping me young. 
 This year my group of 8 that usually goes decided to spend the week camping together and keeping the fellowship of Waka alive while enjoying the nature that many of us would of missed out on. I still miss all of you guys and hope that we will be back on that hill for the party of our lives next year. Imagine the reunion there will be. ~Keep the love alive and flowing Wakarusians 

Kill me now