Rain or Shine, We Never Stop the Boogie [Woogie Weekend Review]

The inaugural Woogie Weekend took place in Silverado, California from Friday, July 17 through Sunday, July 19, 2015.

To sum it up in one word: stunning. To sum it up in more? Magnificent, mesmerizing, unforgettable, ridiculous, torrential, etc… We think you get the point.

Woogie Weekend is a spin-off of and expansion upon Lightning in a Bottle’s Woogie stage featuring the best down-to-earth electronic sounds. With the year-to-year success of the now legendary Woogie stage at Lightning in a Bottle, LIB creators The Do LaB expanded upon the idea, and thus Woogie Weekend was born.

Featuring artists like Danny Daze, j.phlip, Pumpkin, Gigamesh, Nick Warren, Mikey Lion, Tara Brooks, and more – one could tell that Woogie was about to dig in deep and crank out the tunes.

Turning docile festival-goers into all out dancing machines with each and every set, Woogie’s performers delivered with high-flying tunes all weekend long.

As you’ve probably heard by now, Saturday and Sunday of the festival turned into a torrential downpour that flooded much of the grounds. It was moments like this that many of us wished we had our rain jacket. Yet we kept on smiling. In most cases, this would throw a serious dampener on the shindig. In this case, it only heightened the ridiculousness.

L.A. dance and performance troupe Bijoulette cranked up the shenanigans with their now-infamous slip ‘n’ slide, propelling attendees to launch themselves down the tarps and into some of the best times of our lives. Inflatable donuts, alligators, Shamu’s, and more made their way out to the slip ‘n’ slide to add to the overall insanity.

If we were unintentionally doing the rain dance with our weekend’s Woogie, our calls were heard.

As the grounds continued to flood fans became one with the mud, embracing the world’s muck with open arms. Shoes were forgotten and woes shunned as the music pushed the party into full gear.

With a pure unadulterated on the music, Woogie Weekend centered in on the one thing the rain couldn’t take away from us: our all-dancing hugging loving souls. The musicians created, the sound systems pumped, and the crowd loved every minute of it.

If The Do LaB and Woogie Weekend follow up their first year with a second festival in 2016, you better believe that we’ll be there, and we hope you will too.

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