Northern Nights, the weekendlong music pageant set among the many redwoods on the south fork of far Northern California’s Eel River, celebrates its tenth anniversary this summer time. Significantly extra bucolic than Portola and infinitely extra manageable than Coachella, this EDM-heavy social gathering just a few hours north of the Bay Space returns Friday by means of Sunday, July 14-16.
Headlined by the hip-hop- and jazz-inflected digital duo Huge Gigantic and lure/dubstep star G Jones together with acts like Grammy-winning producer Mura Masa and DJ and pianist TOKiMONSTA, Northern Nights is a self-contained wonderland removed from any noise ordinances or curfews. Within the shade of 300-foot tall bushes, its levels appear to merge proper into the forest itself, like an Ewok village with 5 full levels and a thousand pool floaties.
It’s no mistake this boutique pageant is held inside the Emerald Triangle, because it combines digital music with the most effective hashish California has to supply and—maybe unsurprisingly—a major emphasis on wellness. Attendees can count on 6,000 to eight,000 fellow festivalgoers, if the previous is prologue.
Because the organizers did in 2022, there will likely be a number of dispensaries on-site, however this 12 months Northern Nights has even cultivated its personal pressure of hashish, a collaboration with Humboldt Seed Firm.
As a result of it’s the tenth anniversary, 2023’s lineup has quite a bit to supply, together with twin sisters Coco & Breezy (at the moment on tour in Europe with Channel Tres), ultra-smooth Australian duo Evening Tales and Georgia’s electro-soul producer Every day Bread. Different acts of notice embrace singer-songwriter Bipolar Sunshine, digital duo EAZYBAKED and Dirtybird Campout 2022 breakout star Mary Droppinz.
Northern Nights
🗓️ July 14-16
📍 Cook dinner’s Valley Campground, Piercy, California
🎟️ $299-$499
🔗 northernnights.org
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