Alive Music Festival!!

The week after the U.S. Open I found myself busy as always. Tuesday and Wednesday I worked in the office in the promotions department. However, the most important event of the week was the 20th annual Christian Music Festival, the Alive Festival at Clay's Park Resort in Canal Fulton. I had never been to this festival before, but Andrea had so she explained it to me. This was a week-long festival where families could come for one day or camp the whole week while enjoying the lake, great food, inspirational speakers, and wonderful Christian music. People were able to enjoy performances from some of the top Christian artists (from all genres of Christian music) for the last four days of the festival (June 20-23). During these last four days, the promotions people and all of us interns manned the Fish inflatable booth. Believe me this thing is HUGE!!!

Unfortunately, I could only help for the first two days of the festival (since I was getting my wisdom teeth out on Friday), but my help was definitely still needed. This event had to be one of the biggest I had attended so far! On Wednesday, Christina and I ran the booth. We set out Fish fliers, Cleveland magazines, and Fish bumper stickers as well as running the "Guess the number of fish in the bowl..." prize contest (if you guessed the number correctly, you had a chance to win four Cedar Point tickets). Also, Christina and I were busy putting Fish tattoos on all the little kids. The first day went pretty smoothly. It was great to hear from and talk to dedicated Fish listeners. On Thursday, Andrea, Rick (another intern I had never met before), and I met early to set up the Fish inflatable. The previous day had worked out fine, since Greg had been there to help show us how to set it up. Well, that wasn't exactly the case on Thursday because of the strong winds!!! In the process of blowing up the inflatable, the wind blew two stakes out of the ground, causing the entire half of the inflatable to flip over!! Andrea and I were stunned. Thankfully, Rick had a tool kit in his car so we could hammer the stakes into the ground real good this time. Finally, we got the Fish inflatable up!!

Thursday went just about the same as Wednesday (except for a huge thunderstorm during which we stuffed everything into the Fish van including ourselves!). Truly, All of the people at the festival were so friendly, and I realized I really do love this music format because the people are just great!!! In fact, one guy came back to our inflatable at least a couple times each day while I was there just to talk to us and keep us company. Overall, the festival was a great experience, and the music was awesome. Some bands I had never even heard of, most likely because they played more Christian rock or even Christian metal. I do have to say I was impressed by this hard rock Christian band Flyleaf as well as one of my favorite all-girl Christian bands Barlow Girl!! Although I didn't see get to see the top artists/bands (Jeremy Camp, Relient K, Switchfoot, and Newsboys) since I had to leave early, I still loved the music and can't wait to come back next year!! :) Visit this link for more info!!! Alive Music Festival Rocks!!!