V-TUNES MUSIC FESTIVAL
Big Water UT (Lake Powell)
www.vtunesmusic.com

Speechless... words can't describe the gratitiude...

The good folks of V-Tunes Music Festival and Big Water UT were kind enough to invite us to play their festival again this year. We were treated like kings of a most royal lineage. This was a truly humbling experience to have been treated so well and to have been so well received. As we headed back towards home our good friend Mr. Corey Fox put it best, "Man after this weekend I'm sure to come crashing back down to reality...". But for the next 6 hours as we traveled home in the beloved "Brutus" we were still living in the bliss that we had experienced for the 3 days previous...

We were provided an immaculate house boat 'The River Run' for the weekend. We had been told that this would be the case beforehand... but we were floored by just how big of a boat it was when it was delivered to us on Lone Rock Beach.

Josh and myself headed down late Thursday night with our best mates Scott Shepard (from book on tape worm), Corey Fox (owner of Velour Live Music Gallery) and Patrick Kintz (from the upstairs bedroom of our house aka 'Starlight Manor').

We ended setting up camp around 4am and woke up to a horde of naughty little nats and the scorching Lake Powell sun around 7amish. We met up with Vallis, Austin, Easy, Sarah and Jessica from V-Tunes said our hellos then ran into the town of Page Arizona for some breakfast at the Ranch House with the local natives. We then picked up some necessities (sun screen, coca-cola, gummy worms, towels) and headed to Lone Rock Beach were we met back up with the V-tunes crew along with some of their friends.

We were escorted about the lake on fancy schmancy boat, did some swimming, wakeboarding etc. The house boat arrived a bit later followed by Eric, Jacob, Jana Thompson, Sarah Skaggs, Matt Skaggs and Dustin Christensen (from Dustinonline.com) and a handful of other friends (thank you for coming yall know who you are). Tons o' swimming, sun-bathing, grunge rock hits on the classical guitar, boondogglin', jumping off the house boat, rope swinging, sliding, the ever so common Skaggs act pushing an unsuspecting companion into the lake and good conversation were had...

We were honored to play the festival with a talented crew of artists including Pat & Rose Maloney, Steven Swift, Dave Mcgraw, Austin Joseph, Easy Joseph and The Remnants. We were especially stoked to share the stage and the houseboat (if but only for a short while) with our good friend and brother Mr. Joshua James (www.joshuajames.tv) who by the way is one of my most favoritest of songwriters and musicians. Love you brother friend.

All in all we had ourselves a handsome little vacation and were able to participate in a ultra-smooth music festival that feels much like a large family gathering. Good souls enjoying one another, good music and some good food, all goodness. There are too many people to thank individually for what could possibly have been the best and most heart warming musical experience of our short career.

A trillion thank yous to Big Water, the V-Tunes crew and all of our friends and fans that traveled to the festival! We love love love you all... we are family.


"C'Mon Cory Mon!"