By Mia RobinsonWeb Content Contributor UTOPiAfest will be here sooner than expected. It’s happening in Burnet, Texas, from Nov. 14-16 at the Reveille Peak Ranch. The festival is going on for their 11th year and it will be a good … Continue reading UTOPiAfest is On It’s Way
By Alexis Richard and Sara NeelOther Side Drive Hosts Other Side Drive hosts, Alexis Richard and Sara Neel, are joined by Travis Sutherland, a representative of UtopiaFest. In this interview, Sutherland discusses the origins of the festival, this year’s talent … Continue reading Other Side Drive Talks with Travis Sutherland
By Anna Valdez Web Content Contributor If you are someone who enjoys the outdoors and live music, then UTOPiA Fest is the perfect event for you! This year, UTOPiA Fest is celebrating ten years of great outdoor fun and music … Continue reading UTOPiA Fest Celebrates Ten Years of Fun
By Sami Dugdale Program Director Other Side Drive hosts April Gutierrez and Lexi Ashbury talk with Travis Sutherland, KTSW alum and founder of UTOPiAfest. Travis discusses the beginnings of UTOPiAfest, the bands playing at the festival this year, and the … Continue reading Behind the Scenes of UTOPiA
By Lucero Trevino Photojournalist As a photographer one of my favorite ways of editing a photograph is in black & white. I feel like having a photo in black & white can just give a whole other meaning to a … Continue reading UTOPiAFest in Black & White
By Renee Dominguez Photojournalist The second we drove into the Four Sisters Ranch, I knew this was going to be different than any other festival I had been to, and I wanted a way to capture the core of this … Continue reading People of UTOPiA Fest Gallery
By Lucero Trevino Photojournalist I attended UTOPiAfest for the first time this year. I had personally never heard about this festival before KTSW and I’m actually pretty salty about that. This festival had such an impact on me that I … Continue reading 4 Reasons Why UTOPiAfest is So Great
By Lucero Trevino Photojournalist At this year’s UTOPiAfest, I was lucky enough to interview an artist by the name of Mobley with the help of Renee. We were both covering UTOPiAfest this year and on the second day of the … Continue reading Who is Mobley?
By Renee Dominguez Photojournalist He stares at us in horror as if at any moment helicopters will swarm in and take him away because he accidentally let his real name slip up on air. The mysterious man sitting in a … Continue reading UTOPiA Fest Spotlight: Radio Man
By Renee Dominguez Photojournalist I would say that I am an experienced music festival goer. I have seen my share of festivals, everywhere from several electronic festivals like Electric Daisy Carnival in Las Vegas, Sun City Music Festival in El … Continue reading UTOPiAns Bid Farewell to Four Sisters Ranch
By DeMarcus Cobb Assistant Music Director Capyac is a musical outfit from Austin, Texas that finds a way to blend disco, jazz, chillwave, R&B, IDM and Deep House on their debut release, “Headlunge”. You never know what to expect from … Continue reading Potatoes, North Carolina, and Seasonings with Capyac
By DeMarcus Cobb Assistant Music Director Cheers to the beginning of Fall and cool(er) weather! The 8th annual Utopiafest is here and the weather is welcoming it with open arms. The highs will be in the mid-80s with lows in … Continue reading Your Guide to UTOPIAfest 2016
Interviewer: Brittany Robinson Interviewees: Lionel Williams, Billy Winger, James Lake, and Ian Gibbs Vinyl Williams is a Los Angeles based psychedelic indie pop band, led by musician Lionel Williams. Vinyl Williams goal is to transcend ordinary music listening, and to … Continue reading UTOPiAfest 2015: Vinyl Williams
By Shannon Williams When I was in third grade, my class was constantly seated in front of this program called “The Magic School Bus” in which Ms. Frizzle’s class constantly defied space and time on outlandish field trips in the name of science. If you were anything like me in third grade, you might have been completely jealous of Phoebe and Max, for none of my field trips could have matched that splendor. At Utopiafest I managed to find a bit of magic through a few guys playing in their very own tricked out school bus. If kids aren’t still watching “The Magic School Bus,” I … Continue reading Putting the Magic Into Teaching
Story by: Monica Solis with THREADS – The Stories That Bind Us This is Grupo Fantasma performing at camping and music festival Utopiafest in Utopia, Texas. Following their set, I catch up with bassist Greg Gonzales. “Obviously, being part Latino … Continue reading Threads : Grupo Fantasma Blend Cultures and Genres
Mud in the morning, mud at night, disconnected from the rest of the world, worries sliding off your shoulders, roaming open fields to the sounds of rock, bluegrass, and hip hop, eclectic: meeting kindred people with whom you howl at … Continue reading A Muddy Utopiafest Energizes With Music
