Soulfest Recap!

Soulfest!  vacation for us.. we go every year.. What is it?  For those of us of a certain age.. it's reminiscent of Woodstock.. or farmaid..   Its a week of music..and fellowship..  It's held the first week in August every year at Gunstock Mountian  in Gilford NH.

Now by music.. I mean all kinds of Music.. Christian Themed but a great variety of Genres..
Pop,Contemporary, folk, Worship, Rock, Hard Rock, Alt Rock, Heavy metal,Screamo,etc.. as you can tell see it has wuite the variety.. It has 5 stages.. and aprox 125 bands/speakers over the 4 days that it is full on..

Now we go early on Tuesday to set up camp and leave on Sunday Morning.. in between are great concerts/workshops and good food and great deals on cds and the such.

This year headliners were Skillet, Switchfoot, Chris Tomlin.  additionally Sanctous real, Thousand foot krutch,Brian"head" welch, flatfoot 56,Caleb and many others were their..

Check them out at http://www.thesoulfest.com/..

Highlights were the Skillet concert  tuesday night..the absolutely best concert show that I have ever been to..no question.  meeting and hearing the band "Caleb" for the first time (Steven Curtis Chapmans sons) and a band I had never heard of   "Phone Calls From Home"..  "Exiting the fall" was good as well but not my style of music.  didn't hear them but the buzz on "Epic season" was very good.

A constant highlight for us every year is Paul Coleman.. former "Newsboy"..former and current member of the "Paul Coleman Trio".  He did a songwriters workshop everyday for almost two hours..it was awesome and gave me some real insight into how the process works..  My daughter loved it as well.  As she is planning on pursuing a career in music  it was good for her to see some of the process.

another thing i like is the coffe that they have at the festival..it is called bolivias best.. and it supports a minstry called IOU ministries of bolivia..  check them out at http://www.ioubolivia.com/  great coffee at a great price.. we buy our refillable cup on the first day.. $25 and then get free refills all week. :) 

Soulfest is not just about the music . It is also about opening eyes to issues that we may not have known about.. for example  Love is not for sale is a program that  reaches in and rescues those who are enslaved. Not only overseas.. but here in the US.. Here in New England.. Boston, Manchester, NH Connecticut.  additionally they help prosecute by providing information and training to those who are trying to stop this.  check them out as well at  http://www.notforsalecampaign.org/

its amazing.. you need ot check it out.. Nest year.. Aug 1-4  2012  Gunstock Mountain, Gilford NH