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Andrew Wyatt's path to the music world has been an improbable journey. Raised among the corn fields of Southern Virginia, he began his professional life following in his father's footsteps as a Southern Baptist preacher. After a chance opportunity to attend the annual Burning Man festival, his life abruptly jumped the tracks. Shortly thereafter, Andrew picked up a camera, donned his, now trademark, sequin Santa suit and began traveling the music festival circuit documenting the color and vitality of musicians and even more colorful fans around the country.

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Burning Man: a Weird, Wacky, and Wonderful Family Reunion

Andrew Wyatt Sep 16, 2018

Shortly after two in the morning, after a reoccurring nightmare woke me up for the third time, I began to wonder if my forthcoming trip to the Burning Man was such a great idea after all. It was late summer 2002, and for the third time in…

Alternative/Indie

Arise Festival Emerges as an Antidote for Dangerous Times

Andrew Wyatt Aug 15, 2018

These are dangerous times in which we live. Our culture is teetering on the brink. And if music festival organizer, Paul Bassis is correct, the Arise Music Festival held last week outside Loveland, Colorado may well be an antidote to help…

Colorado

Quixotic and the Desert Dwellers Astonish the Ogden Theatre in Denver

Andrew Wyatt Nov 22, 2017

A sense of wonder. It’s that wide-eyed gleam that happens when any other breed of dog spots a poodle for the first time. It is that sixth sense so rare in adulthood that it has been referred to as the superpower of children. It is so…

Colorado

The Arise Festival Is More Than a Wake-Up Call

Andrew Wyatt Aug 18, 2017

At times, the music industry can seem like a viciously preposterous environment, kind of like a Sharknado movie sequel only with amplified instruments and egos, laptop computers and seven-dollar plastic water bottles sucked into a funnel…

Uncategorized

Hops and Handrails Festival Moves Mountains to Longmont, CO

Andrew Wyatt Apr 5, 2017

Moving mountains is usually the province and design of Greek gods, religious deities in the pages of sacred books or Hollywood film directors armed with a bevy of computer special effects. However, for one Colorado-based brewer, it has…

Colorado

March Fourth and Pimps of Joytime Booty Shake with Swagger at the Fox Theatre, February 25, 2017

Andrew Wyatt Mar 12, 2017

They put their socks on one at time like the rest of us, but that pretty much is where the resemblance to ordinary folks like us ends. Some have speculated that they could be aliens from another planet-perhaps set on this planet as…

Colorado

Higher Society Lifts Spirits in Denver for New Year’s Eve

Andrew Wyatt Jan 9, 2017

Fuck, 2016! That was the prevailing feeling for many people in our country as we lurched toward year’s end. So many beloved musicians died. There were bombings, searing police confrontations and there was the near apocalyptic collapse of…

Colorado

Nitro Fest, featuring Beats Antique, Ignites Longmont, CO

Andrew Wyatt Nov 26, 2016

In retrospect, I am a bit surprised there was no carnival barker in candy cane-striped pants with a handlebar mustache shouting, “Step Right Up, Ladies and Gentlemen!” There was the obvious, the circus tent. And the carnie stilt walkers,…

87/90

Formula 5 was ‘The Band That Could’ at Owsley’s Golden Road in Boulder, CO

Andrew Wyatt Oct 13, 2016

For a while on Saturday, October 8, the four intrepid members of the Albany based jamband Formula 5, in the middle of their first tour of Western states, thought they’d be trapped in a “The Little Engine That Couldn’t” scenario with their…

Funk/Soul/R&B

March Fourth Struts its Stuff at the Boulder Theater

Andrew Wyatt Oct 4, 2016

Confetti bursts of brass, acrobatics, Balkan music, writhing sweat-covered bodies, salsa, electro-swing, and funk mayhem exploded September 24 at the Boulder Theater with the arrival of the foot stomping March Fourth band from Portland…

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