Northern California’s Northern Nights pageant celebrated its 10-year anniversary final month with a three-day woodsy bacchanal.
From July 14-16, the pageant drew attendees to a campground in Piercy, Calif., a metropolis on the heart of Northern California’s Emerald Triangle, which is the US’ largest hashish producing area made up of Humboldt, Mendocino and Trinity Counties.
Along with music and floats on the Eel River, company of the fest have been as soon as once more in a position to partake in Northern Nights’ hashish choices. For the primary time in 2023, the pageant allowed for gross sales and consumption to happen all through the occasion, as a substitute of 1 cordoned off space. Northern Nights organizers say that the marked the primary time this mannequin was used at a music pageant. This yr the pageant additionally debuted its personal proprietary hashish pressure.
There was, after all, music as nicely. This yr’s headliners have been Massive Gigantic, G Jones, Dr. Fresch, TOKiMONSTA and Netsky, with the remainder of the bass, jamtronica-focused invoice rounded out by artists together with Coco & Breezy, Day by day Bread, Mary Droppinz, Random Rab and extra.
Didn’t make it? Need to relive it? Recollections of all of it a bit hazy? Enter the Emerald Triangle of your thoughts with this trinity of unique units from the weekend.
Massive Gigantic
At all times identified for delivering a heady, hyphy good time, the Colorado-based duo made their Northern Nights debut with a headlining set made up of outdated music; not but launched music; collabs with artists, together with Aloe Blacc; tracks by artists together with Knock2, Steve Aoki and John Summit; together with some good old school physique pummeling dubstep.
Megan Hamilton
The Minnesota-born producer carried out a cool, playful set that acquired progressively deeper, tougher and (splendidly) weirder over its hour-long length.
Forester
With their music written to deliberately mimic the grandeur of nature and evoke the sensation of being within the woods, the reside digital duo was proper at residence at Northern Nights, the place they performed an emotive, kinda attractive present that includes a great deal of their very own music and remixes of The Neighborhood, RÜFÜS DU SOL and others.
