For 17 years now, Warped Tour has brought musicians and music enthusiasts together to create an experience that keeps both parties coming back for more. And it’s not hard to see why. As the Vans Warped Tour rolled through South Florida on Sunday, it wasn’t just the heat that brought intensity to the Cruzan Amphitheater in West Palm Beach.
I have been to a lot of concerts and festivals in my life, but none of that could have adequately prepared me for the affair that was Coldplay at the American Airlines Arena in Downtown Miami on Friday, June 29. The entire night became an experience, one I hadn’t necessarily expected to have to such an extent.
Staff writer Junette Reyes believes penmanship is a dying, yet necessary art.
It’s no easy feat to organize a music festival. I think that’s something everyone can agree on. When you’re a music promoter from the UK organizing a new experience that has to live up to the expectations and hype associated with festivals like Reading, Leeds and Glastonbury on foreign soil, your job becomes a little harder. But this was the task that the folks at Festival Republic undertook and embraced wholeheartedly. With a determined spirit and passion for music, they organized Orlando Calling, and they ultimately delivered it.