What the heck is DANNFEST? DANNFEST is an all day music festival.
The initial DANNFEST was kind of a fluke. In early July of 2024, Dann was asked if he wanted to play at Ounces Outdoors on August 10th 2024 for a 3 hour gig. Dann accepted the gig and started calling friends to see who was available to play the event.
Well, Dann received responses from a lot of people saying they wanted to play. Once he started counting up the number of singers, guitarists and other assorted musicians who were interested in playing, he figured he had enough people for multiple bands. Dann reached out to Waz, Abby, and Jojo at Ounces Outdoors and suggested a whole day’s worth of music. Ounces Outdoors agreed to the having the event and DANNFEST was born.
So what does one do to organize a small festival? It is pretty easy, you reach out to the singers and ask them what songs they want to sing. Once that is determined and the set lists are finalized you recruit musicians to play with each singer. So we just need rehearsals?
Nope!!! While many band members lived locally, others lived in different parts of California and some lived in other states. It became apparent that the rehearsals were not going to happen.
So what did we do? Well, someone would start a song and we would all try to play along. Super fun!!!
A big thank you to all the musicians who came out the first year and thank you to Ounces Outdoors for hosting the event.