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We came. We saw. We conquered. But... what happened to the festival? Cornerstone 2011 should have rocked, but due to the economy, amazingly high heat and a few other things, failed to really take off. So, how did the Afterhours stage fair?
We’re SIX days away from this year’s Cornerstone Music Festival. Kevin, Ralph, Jeremy and I are crossing off everything on our check lists. On Saturday, the annual trek begins and I’m still not quite ready for it. Tomorrow is the clean and pack day. Not that cleaning and packing is of any interest to you, but I’m sure you’d like to read an update on the Afterhours CD and the Afterhours stage itself. So, let me give you that.
Last month, we reached our financial goal to produce this year’s Afterhours CD. The CD will be given out for free at the end of this month during the Cornerstone Music Festival.
Over 150 tracks were submitted for the album this year. That is a new record. DJ Jeremy Kadinger narrowed them down to just 33. Yes, 33 on one CD. Jeremy twisted each track into something completely new and what is perhaps the best Afterhours CD to date.
In celebration of this, we invite you all to the Afterhours CD Release Party, Wednesday June 29th. The party will start as soon as Andy Hunter is off Main Stage and will take place back at the Afterhours Stage. DJ Jeremy Kadinger will be serving up yet another twisted mix of house, breaks, techno, tribal and trance for your dancing pleasure.
Kevin, Dave and the rest of the Afterhours crew hope to see you there.
Two weeks ago, we announced the start of our annual fundraiser for the Afterhours CD. We're on our way now to our goal of $1,000. It's time though to start collecting tracks for the CD. We'd love for you to be a part of it.
It's 11 pm at Cornerstone. The dusty roads are filled with a constant stream of festival goers coming and going from stage to stage. Literally, more than 10,000 people are trying to make their way across the farm for what probably is their tenth show of the day. In the middle of the road, a lone man yelling "Free music. Free Electronic Dance music. Free Afterhours CD." Over and over again the cry goes out until 250 CDs are given out that night.
Another Cornerstone Music Festival has come and gone. Once again, we came, we saw, we conquered. We ran the stage with yet another small budget cut, moved to a new location within the festival and had a new stage partner, Raging Storm Records. In the end, this may have been the most significant year we have had running the EDM stage at Cornerstone. The very first night out, we had over 1500 pass through the stage and for well over half of them, this was their first Afterhours.
After much debate and speculation, I am proud to announce the 20TEN Afterhours stage lineup for Cornestone. We’ve got some regular Djs, some DJs who are new to the festival and a few returning ones as well. So, here’s the lineup, night by night.
It all started two years ago. Kevin, Doug and I were talking about what we were going to do about running a generator stage during the day at Cornerstone. We wanted to do that again, but we all knew one thing, we had to give something back to the Cornerstone Festival community, a generator stage just wouldn’t cut it. We joked about doing a compilation CD to hand out and then we let the idea drop for a few weeks. Doug’s temporary departure from our community a few weeks later though brought the CD back to the forefront of our discussion and a few weeks later, we had the first edition of the Afterhours compilation in our hands. After the festival, we were able to find maybe 16 out of a 1000 CDs that had been left behind by Festival goers. There was no question that the following year would bring Volume 2.
Read more: Afterhours Volume 3: Fundraising and Track Submission
That's right, we're gearing up for another year with the Cornerstone Music Festival. As always, we start each year with a call out to the community for the best Christian DJs to throw us a mix and possibly get on the roster for the Afterhours Club Stage. This year we are experiencing a major venue change. I'm not sure how much of it has been made public yet by the festival, so you'll have to wait for some details. What I'm sure I can tell you though, is that we will be moving out of the Barn. This move should put us in a much more trafficked area and if all goes right should allow us to get started a bit earlier each night. Most of the details are still being worked out as I typed, but I can tell you that I am excited about the change.
Well, it was an amazing year. Things went much better than expects, so much more that I’m personally paranoid about how well they went. I’ll write more about that in a future article, but for now, I don’t want to leave you hanging any longer. Here are almost 300 photos from Afterhours 2009.
I also want to give special thanks to Jessica Reiche for taking time out to act as photographer for this year’s event. Thanks to her, we have over 700 quality photos in our archive. Brother Brooks and I took threw in about another 500 photos between us. If you were there, and you have photos that you think need to be added, contact us and let us know where we can get them.
My wrap-up article will be coming “soon” and next month, we’ll have all the audio for you’re listening pleasure.
Enjoy the photos.
Six to nine months. That’s how long it takes to plan Afterhours every year. No, that’s not a 24 hour a day job, but that is how long you think about it. In fact, there are many nights I go to sleep at night thinking about it and mornings when I wake up and it’s still on my mind. Perhaps the worst thing about it is that I spend the other three months of the year trying not to think about it. So far this go around, I’m failing.