There are very few places you would rather go to for a music festival in the United States than San Francisco. To get a picture of why, consider a recent article for USA Today titled “Beats and beets: Music festival amps up with gourmet food.”
Lindsay Deutsch of USA Today writes, “It’s Saturday afternoon in San Francisco and sunlight’s triangulating into the massive crimson and gold tent where they’re pouring the wines at the Outside Lands festival. “Looks like Harry Potter,” a hat-clad, wine-glass toting, 2 p.m.-tipsy patron tells her friend. She’s right. The duo assess the 35 wineries in “Wine Lands” before making their next local selection, venturing deeper into the tent. Just outside, someone’s grilling oysters. Next to that, chowder’s being slopped into a bread bowl. There’s a curry food truck and one selling artisanal ice cream tacos — 77 local restaurants total spanning and transforming Golden Gate Park for the sold-out, three-day event. People are eating. People are drinking. There’s no rush. Missing is the massive stampede that one’s come to expect and love at a giant, multi-stage music festival. (And, don’t get us wrong, that is what this is — headliners this year include Elton John, Sam Smith, the Black Keys, Kendrick Lamar, Wilco and Mumford & Sons, powered by more than 3,000 staff and 92 semi-trucks of equipment. The three-day audience is expected to reach 210,000.) Instead, to the gentle hum of a faraway main stage, a line has formed at the three-hole mini-golf course. Each putt, you get a wine tasting.”
If that doesn’t get you excited, try this article for SF Nation titled “New All Trance Music Festival Dreamstate Comes to SF in 2016” on for size. Carlos Olin Montalvo of SF Nation writes, “Electronic dance music promoters Insomniac (Electric Daisy Carnival, Beyond Wonderland, Nocturnal) plan to bring their newly created Dreamstate trance festival to San Francisco next year, with official dates and location still TBA. Billed as “Your Trance Destination,” Dreamstate will be taking place sometime in early 2016. There’s no word yet on the venue or lineup for the SF edition, but the inaugural Dreamstate festival happens November 27-28 in Southern California at San Bernadino’s National Orange Show Events Center. Headliners for the debut event include trance visionaries Paul Oakenfold and Paul Van Dyk.”
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