Welcome back to the slipperiest slope. Summer Camp Music Festival Presents… Solshine Reverie; A Memorial Day Weekend celebration with music, art, and gratitude. Tickets still available here. Don’t miss out. So that’s it. This party is on and it absolutely promises to be a complete banger. If you know, you know. Three Sisters Park is the place. Memorial Day weekend is the time. This will be third year for the wrangler elite and all signs point to low-bar, high scum line. Follow Kamp Happiness to Shakedown St. in the heart of the forest. Be wary, something ridiculous this way comes. What would be the recipe for Chillicothe Coffee?
The Chillicothe Indians were part of a loose confederacy within the Shawnee tribe. And speaking of loose confederacies, this year’s Hobo Kamp promises some highlights from the archives, including the Iceman, Bfly, The Soul Fisherman, salmon fishermen and the incomparable Brocoleah. Who knows, there may even be a sighting from Rockford’s own Señior Bitchell. Be a part of the Fallout Shelter. Join the fray.
What to Expect at Solshine:
Once you’re in, you’re in. They make it so easy to have a good time. It’s a safe place for adult children and childish adults. Go ahead and get lost. If you come to soybeans to the west or the Illinois River to the east, you’ve gone to far. Turn around and get back at it.
Leave on-take one blankets. Everywhere one turns in the forest there is another blanket littered with hippy treasures. Visit Kamp Happiness and find Pedro’s Circle K? Trading Post of Assorted Delights.
How about that lineup? Always a winner at Chillicothe, headliners this year are Goose, String Cheese, Umphrey’s McGee, Moe., Disco Biscuits, John Summit and the hits keep on coming. Remember the year it was Billy into Umph into Billy into Umph. Or the Moe. and Umph double date. You can be sure to see the folks from Mi Kulture come out from their tent once the Umph love gets going.
Thursday Pre-Party: A popular misconception is that you are going to arrive early and get some sleep Wednesday night. Sleep will find you later, not Wednesday night. There’s just too much tingle in the air.
Solshine Reverie Kamp Happiness Wook Trap “24 This is the yoga tent you’ve been looking for. It’s high time you made it to twerch. The Twerk Church. (https://fb.me/e/4UIApESlt)
Soulpatch exists to support a vision of strong communities engaged in the social and economic health of local biodegradable good culture. We are an interactive educational garden located at Three Sisters Park in Chillicothe, IL with activities, workshops, and more throughout the duration of the Solshine Reverie. We openly collaborate with educators, organizations and businesses to demonstrate a variety of growing methods, natural building techniques, and permaculture systems. Initiated as a part of Summer Camp Music Festival in 2016, the space is transforming to host workshops throughout the spring, summer, and autumn.
Dust or mud? Like most festivals, you’ve got to pick one. You make your bed, you sleep in it. Dust or mud? Best case scenario, you don’t actually care and will be a steward of the festival no matter what happens. Remember We Are the Mummies in the mud? This is the exfoliation station. Or the Lemonade Merchant’s impromptu trading blanket involving precious keepsakes. The forest will be alive with industry.
The event’s inaugural edition will take place at Summer Camp’s beloved venue of Three Sisters Park in Chillicothe, Illinois from Friday, May 24 – Sunday, May 26, 2024, with a pre-party on Thursday, May 23.
Solshine Reverie’s Phase 2 lineup will welcome acts such as Philadelphia-bred jamtronica outfit The Disco Biscuits, who are returning to the festival following their electrifying 2023 performance, as well as the festival debuts of Femme House-boss LP Giobbi (performing a Dead House set), and Gaspar Benegas & L.A Argentinians from Indio Solari.
Continuing Summer Camp’s long-standing tradition, Solshine: A Music & Arts Reverie will feature a collaborative set from the festival co-hosts legendary jam rock band moe. and iconic genre-melding progressive rock band Umphrey’s McGee.
As Summer Camp transitions into the Solshine Reverie era, the festival is staying true to its new name by updating its layout to create an experience akin to entering a reverie – a dreamlike state. The streamlined festival navigation will be reflected in the event’s increased intentionality; while Solshine will maintain the central spirit of Summer Camp, the refurbished festival will come with a few meaningful changes.
Solshine Reverie has updated Summer Camp’s previous stage layout to create a more fruitful, efficient experience for guests. For example, instead of three mainstages, there will only be two; by removing the Sunshine and Starshine Mainstages, Solshine Reverie is fostering a greater emphasis on the Moonshine Stage and the Campfire Stage (which is being elevated to the size of the previous Starshine Stage). This consolidation allows for a seamless transition between genres on both stages, and allows for less overall overlap so attendees can see exactly who they want.
Additionally, all workshops will now take place at the SOULPATCH – the festival’s interactive garden space and natural amphitheater. By committing this area to the event’s non-music programming, festival-goers will have a familiar, centralized space to attend various offerings and activities before heading back to the stages to check out more music.
In other exciting news, the festival’s official mainstage curfew is now being extended from 2 a.m. to 4 a.m. This additional time will allow guests to experience even more music at Solshine’s biggest hub, before heading back to their campgrounds.
Despite these changes, Solshine will ultimately retain Summer Camp’s core ethos of building an inclusive community around music. Through its mission of sustainability, the festival will aim to inspire attendees to live a life of intention and purpose in order to create a positive impact on the world. To capture this spirit, the festival will host the coveted experiential art area The Illumination Woods and the aforementioned permanent garden SOULPATCH as a dedicated area to increase knowledge of permaculture and sustainability.
Located in The Illumination Woods, Frick Frack Blackjack will return to Three Sisters Park for Solshine’s debut edition. The no-cash, no-limit game has become a fan-favorite across the festival landscape for its unique gambling experience.
In addition to its music programming, Solshine will offer a variety of workshops, food and craft vendors, community-building initiatives, and activities – the heart and soul of what made Summer Camp a ‘home away from home’ for attendees who returned year after year.
Solshine’s programming will include Summer Camp’s beloved Field Day, which will take place on Saturday afternoon for the 14th installment. The Color Wars-style games will include four teams participating in games such as tug of war, giant twister, dodgeball, donut eating contest, and more.
The Summer Camp Music Festival Community Contribution Fund will be a vital part of the new festival concept as well. For every full-price admission ticket purchased for Solshine: A Music & Arts Reverie, $1.50 is set aside and put into the Community Fund to directly benefit the City of Chillicothe and surrounding cities. A committee consisting of local Chillicothe area residents will recommend how the funds will be distributed.
There are a plethora of ways to get involved with Solshine Reverie. Applications are now open for anyone who would like to volunteer, become a vendor or performer, set up a workshop, create an art installation, or work with SOULPATCH. There will also be future applications for those who would like to partner their non-profit with the festival or create a live art gallery. Applications and information on how to get involved is available on the Solshine website here.
The inaugural Solshine will continue the brand’s longstanding Memorial Day Weekend affair at the breathtaking Three Sisters Park in Chillicothe, Illinois. The private park provides a natural amphitheater and a stunning landscape that creates the perfect scenic playground for festival goers to explore. Attendees can also camp within the festival grounds, further elevating the festival’s community-oriented make-up.
All Solshine tickets will have camping included. There are a variety of additional add-ons available including VIP upgrades as well as RV and car camping spots. The VIP upgrade includes exclusive amenities, access to the Thursday pre-party, VIP camping and viewing areas, VIP lounge, air-conditioned bathrooms, and more.
Visit the Soulshine Reverie website and like their social media channels on Facebook, Instagram, X and YouTube. This is it baby. Revisit these Summer Camp hits from the wranglers archives. Believe what you want.
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