Posts tagged Paul Bassis
Thrive Fest Is Shaping Up To Become One Of The Top Destination Festivals! The Inaugural Year Starts This Weekend.

Winter has its ups and downs, but when the days are short and the cold weather keeps you cooped up indoors, many of us long for sandy beaches and sunny skies. What better place to escape than the island paradise of Kona, Hawaii. Just a week away, Thrive Fest will be set up and ready to launch its first ever year on the big island February 7-9. Founders of the festival, Paul Bassis and Tierro Lee, expect the experience at Thrive to be absolutely enchanting, the kind of festival that goes beyond mere retellings of the experience.

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Arise Playlist is Here: Our Favorite Picks of the Weekend

It has now been a few days since Arise Music Festival in Loveland, Colorado wrapped up and we are so excited to share some of our favorite artists of the weekend with you. Arise had a diverse lineup of musicians, artists, performers, workshops, food and events to choose from. Paul Bassis, co-founder of Arise, frequently reiterated that the festival was created to be so much more than a platform for music; as he put it, “Arise is a movement of people and everyone who attends is a part of that movement. It is a collaborative effort and the music becomes the core, like a fire we can all gather around.” Over the course of the seven years Arise has been in operation, it has become the largest camping festival in Colorado and the lineup gets stronger every year. Here are some of the artists we talked to while at the festival and a few tracks from each of them. 

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