Ep. 22 Festies Recap: Mill Valley Music Festival 2025 — A Local Festival Gem

Join us for a full Festies recap of the 2025 Mill Valley Music Festival — one of Northern California’s most beloved boutique festivals! In this episode of Festies, we break down the lineup highlights, share our favorite artist sets, and discuss the laid-back community vibe that makes this two-day event so special. From delicious local food to kid-friendly zones, Mill Valley delivers a unique experience that blends music, nature, and hometown charm.

Whether you missed it or want to relive the magic, Festies has you covered with behind-the-scenes insights and honest thoughts on what made this year stand out.

Artists we saw: Marin School of Arts Band Meels Flamingos in the Tree Ghost Note Vieux Farka Touré The Crosby Collective Gary Clark Jr. Latin Jazz Youth Ensemble IrieFuse Mission Delirium Thee Sinseers Sister Nancy Monophonics Nile Rodgers & Chic

Sunny's Festival Corner:

Red Ants Pants Festival

Sound Haven Music and Arts Festival

Long Beach Jazz Festival

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Intro and Valkyries Game

Vanessa 0:00

Hey Sunny .

Sunny 0:01

Yeah , Vanessa .

Vanessa 0:02

What do you call two best friends that love music festivals ?

Sunny 0:05

Hmm , I guess you'd call them Festies .

Clark 0:28

Music , Festivals , Friendship, Festies .

Sunny 0:39

Take two .

Clark 0:40

It's okay . There wasn't even a take one because we weren't recording yet I still . I had only gotten the room , I was still literally in the middle of doing it . I will be so explicit . I will tell you Don't worry

Vanessa 0:53

Jesus

Sunny 0:55

Anyway .

Clark 0:56

What episode is this ? We're not rolling . It's so funny .

Sunny 1:02

What did you do last ?

Vanessa 1:04

We need a three two

Clark 1:06

We need a five

Vanessa 1:07

Hold up .

Clark 1:09

Four .

Sunny 1:13

That was so extra ,

Vanessa 1:14

I wish everyone could see that .

Clark 1:16

That's Wayne's World . They do that when they get the big production team . Okay , valkyries .

Sunny 1:22

What did you do last night , Vanessa ?

Vanessa 1:25

I went to my first Valkyries, and actually that was the first time I ever went to Chase Center too ,

Sunny 1:31

Really ?

Sunny 1:31

Yeah , isn't it so nice ?

Vanessa 1:34

It's so nice ,

Sunny 1:35

oh , pepper Potts .

Clark 1:38

You're fine boo-boo .

Vanessa 1:39

I don't know what I was expecting , but it was sold out .

Sunny 1:42

Yeah ,

Vanessa 1:43

I was like I love this . I love women's sports , women's basketball .

Clark 1:50

Yeah , we've been seeing on the local news every time they've had a game that it's just been sold out .

Vanessa 1:54

And then you know those little steps that they have there outside the entrance . Do people just sit there and watch it from the big screen outside ?

Sunny 2:01

Clark and I have been trying to do that for a few years now ,

Vanessa 2:04

but they do

Sunny 2:04

yes . We've tried to go to like that grass area and sit and watch the game from outside . Never happened , for some reason .

Vanessa 2:11

Yeah , Cause we walked up , there was people sitting up there and I was like what are they doing there ? Cause I couldn't see the screen yet

Sunny 2:15

Smoking weed ?

Vanessa 2:15

Yeah . What are they waiting for ?

Sunny 2:18

I know we should go and do that Bring a blanket , yeah .

Vanessa 2:20

And they have all these food trucks . I came home early from work and so did ed and he was like I'm hungry so we ate at Rise .

Sunny 2:28

Where's my dinner ?

Vanessa 2:29

No ,

Sunny 2:32

I'm just kidding ,

Clark 2:34

you're my fiance now , where's my dinner ?

Vanessa 2:35

Yeah , Anyway , so okay . So we went to Rise and we ate pizza and then , because we took the train there , so it's right at the train station . But then we got there and we were walking towards and there's all these food trucks right by chase center . I was like fuck , we should eat here . So it's nice , we should do that . We should go just eat at the food trucks one day and watch the game from the outside , because tickets are so freaking expensive . They're like 150 bucks for nosebleeds . I got these tickets Shout out to my friend , dre , old coworker . She has season tickets and so she was always posting them .

Vanessa 3:12

And so .

Vanessa 3:13

I got home from work early and she was like does anybody want to go to these games ? I was like me , yeah ,

Sunny 3:18

pick me , pick me .

Vanessa 3:19

That was nice . The game was so fun . It was so close . They lost by like two , three points and they were so energetic . The crowd like roaring in there , you could have sworn it was a fucking NBA game .

Clark 3:32

I love that .

Vanessa 3:32

Yeah , me too . And even when they lost , right at the end of the game , fucking standing ovation it was so loud I was like Jesus , I love this .

Clark 3:45

I wonder , is it like the same ?

Clark 3:46

It's got to be like a different dance team and stuff right or like what . Do you think the people that do the hype up stuff

Vanessa 3:50

where the boys in all their little booty shorts ?

Clark 3:53

yo objectify the men .

Vanessa 3:58

I wanna go again .

Sunny 4:01

Anyone else , season tickets ,

Vanessa 4:02

hit us up okay ,

Vanessa 4:08

bringing it back to music festivals

Mill Valley Music Festival Memories

Vanessa 4:10

.

Sunny 4:10

This episode is going to be about mill valley music festival , which you may remember that we talked about going to that festival back in may

Vanessa 4:20

yeah , it was mother's day weekend ,

Sunny 4:22

yeah

Clark 4:22

and we got to interview one of the co-founders .

Sunny 4:26

Yeah , our first legit interview with Jim .

Vanessa 4:29

That was awesome .

Sunny 4:30

Yeah , and then we got to meet him in real life at the festival .

Vanessa 4:34

Yeah , it was cool . He's such a great guy

Sunny 4:35

. Yeah , oh , my mom went with us , so got to still celebrate Mother's Day with her , and she helped us stay at a hotel a little down the road shout out to the holiday inn

Vanessa 4:47

which was so close .

Vanessa 4:48

They had the little bike path you could take all the way there .

Sunny 4:50

Yeah , that was so cute .

Vanessa 4:50

That was fun .

Sunny 4:51

Vanessa and ed brought their scooters on sunday and they they rode from the hotel to the

Vanessa 4:56

I think that was the first time we used them

Sunny 4:59

wait , where did you put them ?

Sunny 5:01

at the festival

Vanessa 5:02

they have the bike valet . They really , really encourage people to ride their bike or take ubers or whatever public transportation you know . So they have a whole like bike valet section in one of the parking lots there .

Sunny 5:14

Oh , that's cool .

Vanessa 5:15

Yeah , we just valeted them

Sunny 5:18

do you guys take scooters ?

Vanessa 5:20

yeah ,

Sunny 5:22

the venue for mill valley music festival is big rec center and I just remember walking through and immediately thinking the grass is so bright .

Vanessa 5:31

It was gorgeous it was like freshly cut .

Sunny 5:35

Yeah ,

Vanessa 5:35

like ,

Sunny 5:36

yeah ,

Vanessa 5:36

it looked fake

Sunny 5:38

yeah , it was beautiful

Sunny 5:40

the band that was playing when we walked in

Vanessa 5:42

marin school of the arts rock of the arts rock

Vanessa 5:47

Did I read that

Clark 5:47

Marin School of the Arts .

Sunny 5:48

Marin School of the Arts .

Vanessa 5:50

Yeah , rock , I'm just kidding .

Clark 5:52

No .

Sunny 5:54

School of Rock .

Clark 5:56

I think it's just the Marin School of Arts .

Sunny 5:58

They were covering a Joni Mitchell song called Help Me that I also play . So yeah , clark was like hurry up and get in here , and they sounded so good .

Vanessa 6:07

Marin School of the Arts Rock Band . I forgot to write band .

Clark 6:11

Rock Band Marin School of the Arts Rock Band .

Sunny 6:15

Oh , that's good .

Clark 6:17

It was so fun to see young musicians really like getting their chops .

Vanessa 6:24

It was so cute because they're obviously so young . It was so funny to hear them talk to the crowd . I mean , they did great .

Clark 6:31

Yeah ,

Vanessa 6:31

they played Forget you . That was the last song they played .

Clark 6:34

Oh , yeah , yeah

Vanessa 6:34

and she was like but we'll never forget you . That's just the name of the song ,

Clark 6:38

that's cute .

Vanessa 6:39

It was so cute .

Sunny 6:41

That's what's really special about the Mill Valley Music Festival . One of the aspects is they're really giving young artists a chance to

Vanessa 6:47

Flourish .

Sunny 6:49

To flourish yeah , that's a good word . After that , I just remember we went to go find a spot with our blanket . We were listening to Ghost Note .

Vanessa 6:58

Ghost Note was super high energy .

Sunny 6:59

Yeah ,

Vanessa 7:00

they were like in your face .

Sunny 7:02

They were getting the people going .

Clark 7:04

Yeah .

Vanessa 7:04

Yeah , they really were .

Clark 7:05

They had that lead singer that was doing very James Brown-esque stuff , kind of pushing at the crowd almost . That's fun to have that at the beginning of a festival , because it's like , hey , you awake , right , hey , hey .

Vanessa 7:19

I love how the stages didn't overlap . I remember being like you just can sit in the middle and just like turn your head .

Vanessa 7:28

Main stage , now the Sweetwater stage . Yeah , main stage .

Vanessa 7:29

Turn your

Saturday's Musical Lineup

Vanessa 7:30

head . Sweetwater stage . After Ghost Note , I went over to Meels because that's who I really wanted to see .

Sunny 7:34

How was Meels ?

Vanessa 7:36

I could only be there for a little bit , for a couple hours , because it was Mexican Mother's Day , but I was like I need to go see Meels and then when she's done I can leave . So I did see Meels . She was great and she's actually . I just realized she's opening for Molly Tuttle and her tour that's coming up

Sunny 7:51

Dope .

Vanessa 7:52

Yeah .

Vanessa 7:53

We saw Molly Tuttle at Bonnaroo in 2022 . And you just said that Molly Tuttle is also from the Bay Area .

Sunny 7:58

Yeah , she is ,

Vanessa 7:59

and Meels is from Mill Valley .

Sunny 8:00

Yeah , meels was our Rising Festie on our Instagram . So the growth that she's had since the Mill Valley Music Festival , that's really inspiring to see .

Vanessa 8:11

Yeah ,

Clark 8:12

it really feels like the ball has really started rolling .

Vanessa 8:15

It was because of us .

Sunny 8:18

You're welcome .

Clark 8:19

We helped push that ball ,

Vanessa 8:20

no idea what she had going on before that .

Sunny 8:23

Okay Meels , and then you took off after that ?

Vanessa 8:26

I actually did get to hear Jim introduce Vieux Farka Toré ,

Clark 8:32

uh-huh ,

Vanessa 8:33

and think I'd stayed for like maybe one or two songs

Sunny 8:36

yeah .

Clark 8:37

It was cool seeing him at the festival because in our interview with Jim , jim was like oh yeah , on my honeymoon I went out into the desert with my wife and we went to this show . That was Vieux Farka toré's father , who's also a guitar player and singer , and he mentioned that .

Vanessa 8:58

I heard him introduce him and tell that story again when was what country or where was ?

Vanessa 9:03

it ?

Clark 9:03

Oh , I can't remember

Vanessa 9:04

Was it Mala or .

Clark 9:06

I can't remember where they went to

Sunny 9:07

it was really far away .

Sunny 9:08

I don't know .

Clark 9:09

Um .

Clark 9:09

Mali .

Clark 9:10

I'm just kidding

Sunny 9:13

Malta .

Vanessa 9:13

Mali . It is Mali , m-a-l-i

Sunny 9:17

Were you serious ?

Clark 9:18

Yeah , no , you he was incredible , like incredible guitar player , unique stuff I don't think we would normally listen to . Especially as time goes on . We like go back and look at videos of festivals and stuff . I had some really cool videos of some of the puppets that were out and about during his set and there was this big stork crane one . It was like flowing in the wind . And then like Viu Farkatori is playing in the background , like that matches so well , this is so cool , this whole vibe going on .

Sunny 9:49

Yeah , it seemed like Jim was a little unsure of how the puppets would play out , and I think they hit perfect .

Clark 9:55

Yeah , it really had this magic to it , seeing Vieux Farka tore and like one of those huge puppets .

Sunny 10:02

Yeah .

Clark 10:03

Was really whimsical

Sunny 10:04

I feel that

Clark 10:05

Yer .

Clark 10:06

Okay .

Clark 10:07

So then Vanessa left .

Sunny 10:08

Bye Vanessa ,

Clark 10:09

she left us .

Vanessa 10:10

Adios .

Clark 10:10

For a good reason To go hang out with her man

Vanessa 10:13

To see my mommy .

Clark 10:15

We kind of were just sticking at the main stage for the last two performances on Saturday which were the Crosby Collective . They were doing a ton of really fun mashups and covers of songs . They started riders on the storm like they started playing that right and they're playing the groove from it and then all of a sudden one of their singers starts singing the lyrics to Billie Jean . On top of that they're kind of warping the groove for it into that . Yeah , so they were constantly doing stuff like that and the band was incredible . I mean , that's like the whole idea . It's like collective of high-level musicians .

Sunny 10:58

They did Paul McCartney's band on the run and I can't remember for the life of me what they mixed it with , but it was pretty cool .

Clark 11:06

Yeah , all the stuff they were doing was incredible .

Sunny 11:08

I don't think I've ever heard that song live anywhere other than Paul .

Clark 11:12

Paul doing it yeah .

Sunny 11:16

So that was really fun .

Clark 11:17

That's true

Sunny 11:18

, real quick want to shout out flamingos in the tree because , yeah , I would say 75 of the time when I go to my mom's place and she's blasting music , flamingos in the tree , come on . So she's a fan . So the big headliner for Saturday was Gary Clark Jr .

Clark 11:35

Yeah , we saw him in 2016 ?

Sunny 11:39

I didn't At Outside Lands , I went somewhere else .

Vanessa 11:42

He was at Outside Lands ?

Clark 11:44

Yeah ,

Sunny 11:44

when he was like Wasted .

Clark 11:48

I actually I think I disagree with what I thought before of , because I thought he was drunk when we first saw him . Because literally he played incredibly sang fine and then when he talked in between every song like literally unintelligible .

Vanessa 12:05

Oh , wow .

Clark 12:05

Right , but it seems like he was really working on that though , too . He put his guitar down and was just sang a couple songs . It was like really trying to connect with the crowd .

Vanessa 12:14

So was he wasted or not when you saw him before ?

Clark 12:16

I don't think he was , I think he just was like

Sunny 12:20

I was gonna say

Vanessa 12:21

well , is that worse or better ?

Sunny 12:25

well , I was gonna say then we owe him a huge apology because we've been spreading around that he's an alcoholic , basically by saying he was wasted on stage and Outside Lands .

Clark 12:36

I think every time we've talked about that , we've been like , I think that's what it was .

Sunny 12:41

We were never confident .

Clark 12:42

No ,

Vanessa 12:43

I'm not going to lie , I'd never heard any of his songs .

Sunny 12:47

Yeah , but .

Vanessa 12:47

I did listen to a few before and I did like them .

Sunny 12:50

I was just a little underwhelmed by him , to be honest .

Clark 12:54

Yeah ,

Sunny 12:54

it's nothing about his musicianship ,

Vanessa 12:56

it's just not your cup of tea .

Clark 12:58

He's like a very straight ahead rock lead player ,

Sunny 13:03

not my cup of tea ,

Clark 13:04

and that's what I would say . It's so guitar heavy .

Clark 13:09

And that's not necessarily what we gravitate towards .

Vanessa 13:10

Your mom had also said the same thing . I remember asking her the next day how she thought how he was , and she was like he's not my favorite .

Vanessa 13:16

He's good .

Sunny 13:17

Oh , and you know who also doesn't like him is my dad ,

Vanessa 13:19

Really ?

Sunny 13:23

He's not a fan either ,

Sunny 13:24

so maybe

Vanessa 13:25

But your cousin Nikki is a huge fan .

Sunny 13:25

Yeah , okay

Sunny 13:25

, okay .

Clark 13:26

Yes , but she's also into much harder music as a whole ,

Vanessa 13:30

right , yeah .

Clark 13:32

That's Saturday , saturday .

Sunny 13:34

Saturday ,

Vanessa 13:36

Sunday actually , Ed came with us too ,

Sunny 13:39

yeah .

Clark 13:40

Because y'all came back to the hotel on Saturday night .

Vanessa 13:44

Oh yeah , we came back and spent the night with you guys at the hotel Sunday .

Sunny 13:48

We had a sleep over

Vanessa 13:50

so that way we could wake up and have breakfast with you guys there

Sunny 13:53

Hotel breakfast .

Sunny 13:55

So day two

Vanessa 13:59

First people

Sunday Performances

Vanessa 14:00

we saw was Latin Jazz Youth Ensemble .

Sunny 14:01

Yes ,

Vanessa 14:01

you guys Ubered there and Ed and I rode our bikes and scootered there .

Clark 14:06

Yes ,

Sunny 14:06

oh , yeah , yeah , yeah ,

Clark 14:07

it was actually Mission Delirium .

Vanessa 14:09

Oh , who you saw first .

Clark 14:10

Yeah , because they were already playing on the main stage

Vanessa 14:12

oh on the main stage .

Clark 14:13

They're like a big marching band from Mission in San Francisco . They were out in the crowd .

Vanessa 14:19

I think we went and got food right away , oh .

Clark 14:20

I think y'all did ,

Vanessa 14:21

we went straight to get food , so maybe that's where we were watching them a little bit . And then , once we got our food , we went straight to the Latin .

Vanessa 14:27

Jazz thing .

Clark 14:27

Oh , yeah , yeah , yeah .

Vanessa 14:35

So I was focused on food

Sunny 14:36

priorities ,

Clark 14:36

that what we did end up seeing together that the latin jazz youth ensemble , like a bay area based group of young musicians playing really classic latin tunes from different countries and stuff . So that was that was fun , especially as vanessa and I are spanish speakers . They played maybe two like slightly slower songs . It's like , like tragic love songs and I'm like 15 , 16 year old .

Clark 14:56

singing these lyrics is so funny , you know , it's like , it's like these like really heart wrenching .

Sunny 15:02

Tell us how you feel .

Clark 15:02

Ya se fue you know like singing about how they left and stuff . You're like , don't worry , there's plenty of fish at the sea . You're 15 .

Clark 15:10

You know it's fine .

Vanessa 15:13

Yeah , they were really good . Thee Sinseers was next , which your mom loves

Sunny 15:17

yeah ,

Vanessa 15:17

she kept being like they're from la

Sunny 15:22

I know them .

Vanessa 15:23

Yeah ,

Sunny 15:24

they're like a chicano kind of east la sound right ?

Clark 15:29

yeah ,

Clark 15:29

I mean I don't think I know enough about chicano stuff to to necessarily that , but I mean they had a horn section .

Sunny 15:37

It's called Low Rider Oldies .

Vanessa 15:40

Low Rider .

Vanessa 15:40

Oldies .

Sunny 15:42

The official term

Vanessa 15:43

we all went to go do . Oh no , it was Never mind , I just jumped two artists I was going to talk about . IrieFuse .

Clark 15:51

Oh , the next one I had was Sister Nancy .

Vanessa 15:54

Oh , Sister Nancy was sick

Clark 15:57

she was a dynamo .

Vanessa 15:58

We saw Sister Nancy far away at Cali Vibes in 2022 maybe , and we were like so excited for her , but we were so far away so it was really cool to see her here in VIP super close . She was getting it on stage , she was moving , she was going dancing , shaking her hips .

Clark 16:20

Sister nancy

Vanessa 16:21

still got it . I just love how much she says her own name

Clark 16:26

yes

Vanessa 16:27

but I also just love that they had like a good reggae representation .

Clark 16:31

Yeah

Sunny 16:32

, I remember feeling really tired on sunday and then when Sister Nancy started I was just like , yes , thank you , bring the energy .

Clark 16:38

Yeah ,

Sunny 16:39

you know .

Vanessa 16:39

She brought it .

Clark 16:40

And then in the reggae world , you and Ed went over and saw IrieFuse .

Vanessa 16:45

No , we all went to Silent Disco .

Clark 16:48

Oh yeah .

Vanessa 16:49

And when we were at Silent Disco we heard them from the silent disco and you and I went over there for a little bit

Clark 16:55

yeah , yeah

Vanessa 16:56

and we heard like one song and I was like damn , I wish we were listening the whole time

Sunny 17:03

oh yeah , they were good ?

Vanessa 17:04

they were really good yeah ,

Sunny 17:06

so then um , after sister nancy on the main stage is monophonics

Vanessa 17:11

I thought they sounded really good .

Vanessa 17:12

The guy the main singer he reminded me of Remember we went and saw JJ Gray and the MoFro . He gave me the same kind of vibe as that guy , very uplifting , and he was on the piano .

Clark 17:25

Soul music . There was an incredible amount of soul music representation for the whole weekend .

Sunny 17:33

For all the white people . Oh yeah , there was this little kid that we met who was just a huge monophonics fan . What did

Sunny 17:41

he say Vanessa ?

Vanessa 17:41

it was so cute . He said monophonics is the best music , or something like that so cute .

Sunny 17:47

He was like four .

Clark 17:49

Yeah , that was awesome .

Clark 17:51

Start 'em young .

Vanessa 17:52

Good job , mom and dad .

Clark 17:53

Start 'em young parents .

Sunny 17:55

Yeah , so sweet .

Clark 17:57

All the parents and kids that we chatted with were super sweet . The community feeling of the festival was ever present .

Sunny 18:05

Yeah ,

Clark 18:05

throughout

Sunny 18:06

they had art stations with clay and coloring and watercolors .

Vanessa 18:13

Flower crown making .

Sunny 18:15

Yeah , yeah .

Vanessa 18:15

Tie dye .

Clark 18:16

And then the closing act for the festival .

Sunny 18:21

Was Nile Rodgers and Chic yeah .

Clark 18:24

And how much time you want

Sunny 18:29

Nile Rodgers and Chic , damn it .

Sunny 18:31

Sorry , nile Rodgers and Chic . Nile Rodgers is a huge name in the industry . He's a guitar player . Most recently , he's been known for playing with Pharrell and Daft Punk in .

Clark 18:44

Get Lucky ,

Sunny 18:44

get Lucky .

Sunny 18:45

How could I forget Jesus ?

Clark 18:48

He wrote I think like half of that album with Daft Punk .

Sunny 18:52

Oh , I didn't know that ,

Clark 18:52

that it comes off of . Yeah , yeah ,

Sunny 18:53

wow ,

Clark 18:55

He's just in there .

Sunny 18:56

On top of that , he's produced and played

Nile Rodgers and Chic

Sunny 19:00

guitar for Madonna , for Diana Ross , for

Vanessa 19:03

Beyonce

Vanessa 19:04

he freaking wrote that one song .

Clark 19:07

Cuff or whatever , yeah

Sunny 19:10

uh

Clark 19:10

yeah , cuff it

Vanessa 19:10

I have no idea what it's called , but yeah , that one of the main ones it's ,

Sunny 19:14

I trust you , clarky .

Sunny 19:15

It's called cuff

Clark 19:15

I was very , I was pretty confident when I said cuff it

Vanessa 19:18

all right , cut all this out then

Clark 19:20

Mali

Vanessa 19:20

yeah , he played that and I he played that and I was like shit , no way .

Sunny 19:25

Yeah

Vanessa 19:26

he was the most fun of the whole weekend for me

Clark 19:29

yeah ,

Sunny 19:29

for all of us

Vanessa 19:30

everyone , yeah I totally remember seeing them at Coachella now ,

Sunny 19:35

oh cool , they've got big hits like um ,

Clark 19:40

le Freak ,

Sunny 19:41

duh , guys , I just

Vanessa 19:44

Our brains aren't working well today .

Sunny 19:45

Take over .

Clark 19:48

Then a lot of those songs got used in hip hop that he then referenced Rapper's Delight .

Vanessa 19:55

I love that he played Rapper's Delight and we got to sing that at the end . But , I remember also doing that at Coachella , yeah , yeah .

Sunny 20:02

It was mine and Vanessa's time to shine .

Vanessa 20:04

Yeah ,

Sunny 20:05

For some reason we know all of the words to the short version of that song .

Vanessa 20:10

Since we were nine .

Clark 20:11

Will we get a copyright strike if y'all just ?

Clark 20:13

I just give you a click track and y'all just do the whole thing

Vanessa 20:17

instead of hit .

Sunny 20:20

Don't tempt us

Vanessa 20:21

there's videos of us out there , I think .

Clark 20:23

Oh yeah , like

Vanessa 20:23

we'll post one

Clark 20:24

screaming it at a bar

Vanessa 20:26

or at music festivals , I feel like it's happened to us many times where we've been at music festivals and they'll play it and then we just start rapping .

Sunny 20:34

Yeah .

Sunny 20:35

Everybody . Look at us .

Vanessa 20:37

Look at us right now .

Sunny 20:38

Nile Rodgers at one point he was like you guys look like an educated crowd . He means white .

Vanessa 20:45

AKA , it's bright in here . Yeah yeah , I think that was Ed's favorite too . He was like I loved being so close . We were like front row . Yeah , I was like I loved being so close for like such an awesome band

Sunny 20:56

yeah , I remember he said that ,

Vanessa 20:57

yeah

Clark 20:58

that part of the vip was so incredible .

Clark 21:00

Was you know , having the ? The sun deck is what they call that , that old bar , which is super cool ? We got little like hors d'oeuvres , hors d'oeuvres , yeah , yeah . And then the hop monk food truck was in there too .

Vanessa 21:14

That was the Korean barbecue bowl place .

Clark 21:19

And those chili fries that we got too .

Vanessa 21:22

I had the momos . Is that what ?

Vanessa 21:24

they're called .

Vanessa 21:25

Momos and the cochinita food truck on Saturday . Oh my God , that was so good . Yeah , and the momos .

Clark 21:31

Yeah , I never had those

Vanessa 21:35

Nepalese dumplings

Clark 21:36

Well , the momos I'd never had the , uh , the salbutes , salbutes ,

Vanessa 21:39

oh , from cochinita

Clark 21:39

, yeah I never had something like that , where it's almost like it's not uh pupusa , it's like a

Vanessa 21:45

it's like a handmade tortilla , but like fried .

Clark 21:48

Yeah .

Vanessa 21:48

Yeah , it's so good .

Clark 21:49

It kind of reminded me almost , um , is it a sope that I'm thinking ?

Clark 21:52

of

Vanessa 21:53

yeah , yeah , it's a fried sope , basically ,

Clark 21:55

yeah ,

Vanessa 21:56

yes , those are so good

Clark 21:57

and I was and I was like yo , this is this smacks like it's so good .

Vanessa 22:01

Yeah , those , those were so good , delicious

Clark 22:04

every bit of food we had was great the smash burger was fantastic too

Vanessa 22:08

, dude that smash burger was probably

Clark 22:10

respectable bird

Vanessa 22:11

up there with one of the best burgers I've ever had . It was so good .

Clark 22:15

And then Sunny and I got a burger from that same food truck , from Respectable Bird , and they had Calamansi iced tea .

Sunny 22:23

Oh yeah ,

Clark 22:23

which Calamansi is like a type of citrus , so it was like kind of an Arnold Palmer iced tea .

Vanessa 22:28

That iced tea was really good , so good , we had the ice cream too .

Vanessa 22:35

That jim recommended that was some good , freaking creamy ice cream .

Clark 22:37

That's the only food thing we didn't get .

Clark 22:38

We , yeah , we missed and we just were like

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Clark 22:40

kicking ourselves .

Vanessa 22:41

It was so good .

Sunny 22:42

Well , glad you got to try it

Clark 22:44

yeah did y'all have any uh beer you'd never had before you and ed

Vanessa 22:49

we got wine

Clark 22:51

oh yeah

Vanessa 22:52

um , there was a beer that Ed had

Clark 22:56

. That little pop-up thing . They had right , the little bar that you could like spin with the can and stuff .

Vanessa 23:01

Oh , montauki , coltsnacks , yeah , coltsnacks , coltsnacks .

Clark 23:04

I was like I know there's one , yeah .

Vanessa 23:06

They had that same Yeehaw Inn at Bonnaroo .

Clark 23:11

Oh cool ,

Vanessa 23:11

the exact same thing . That's fun yeah .

Clark 23:14

One of the breweries in the beer hall . James and I went and got a beer together and one of the breweries made a DILF and a MILF .

Sunny 23:21

Oh yes .

Clark 23:22

Like two different beers for the festival . Well , I don't know . I think they made them for their own thing , but it was so perfect .

Clark 23:32

It was like family festival yeah you're all .

Clark 23:33

It's like you have a dilf and a milf lager and pale ale or whatever . I'm like that's so funny , so perfect .

Clark 23:37

Yeah , that's , that's great

Vanessa 23:40

what I love the most about this festival was that it was not crowded and it was so chill like I remember thinking I freaking wish every festival we went to was this chill . Yeah , james was like . Yeah , like green day is just playing up there right now and it's like it's so chill that would be amazing .

Clark 24:00

That would be incredible . Yeah , and when we say that , that doesn't mean it was like empty no , just means it was the perfect amount of space

Vanessa 24:09

and just the vibes too it wasn't like drunk and fucked up people walking around ever you know it was like conscious families like aware of their surroundings .

Vanessa 24:20

Like you know , a nice crowd . I just I wish every festival was chill like that .

Clark 24:26

Yeah .

Vanessa 24:27

So if you get the chance to next year , definitely you want to check out Mill Valley Music Festival .

Clark 24:33

Yes ,

Vanessa 24:33

it is quite the gem Sunny's festival

Vanessa 24:40

corner

Sunny 24:41

july 24th to the 27th , we have red ants pants festival . It's in white sulfur springs montana . It's what are you laughing at ?

Clark 24:52

what ? What's so funny ?

Clark 24:53

Red Ants Pants

Sunny 24:53

Did I say something funny it's 100% homegrown , it's volunteer driven and it's a community of 900 people , so I know right , it's so small . One of the major points of this festival is to celebrate rural communities . It's also a nonprofit and they develop and expand leadership roles for women and preserve and support family farms and ranches .

Clark 25:16

That's cool .

Sunny 25:18

Headliners are Jillian Welch and David Rawlings , steve Earle and Reckless Kelly and St Paul and the Broken Bones .

Clark 25:27

Awesome .

Sunny 25:27

Other acts are Britney , Spencer and Foreshadow . July 31st to August 3rd we have Soundhaven Music and Arts Festival at Jaceland in Tracy City , Tennessee . It's all bass music . There's four unique and captivating stages with incredible laser shows .

Sunny 25:50

They also have live visionary artists . The headliners are Alex Perez , shades and Truth . Other artists are Cannabliss and Furtha . The next one , august 9th and August 10th , we have the 36th Annual Long Beach Jazz Festival . It's in Long Beach , california . It's classic R&B to hot summer night jazz , which I've never heard of that referred to as a genre , but I feel like I can hear it in my head .

Vanessa 26:20

Yeah .

Sunny 26:22

Yeah , lots of saxophone .

Sunny 26:28

They have two separate stages on a waterfront setting . Great selection of food and art . Headliners are Marcus Miller and Sheila E . Bay Area represent .

Sunny 26:39

Yes .

Sunny 26:41

Other artists are BK Jackson and Julian Vaughn . That's it for

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Sunny 26:45

Sunny's Festival Corner .

Vanessa 26:46

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Vanessa 26:52

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Sunny 26:56

I thought you were gonna say twitter , and I wouldn't have stopped you either .

Sunny 26:58

It sounded so natural

Vanessa 26:59

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Vanessa 27:10

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Sunny 27:25

Nice ,

Vanessa 27:26

see you next time .

Sunny 27:27

Bye

Vanessa 27:27

bye !

Clark 27:27