Life is Beautiful Festival

I cannot lie… I am addicted to music festivals! Live music makes me so very happy. To have a mass amount of people there for a band… it’s just a feeling you can’t explain, you just have to experience. I’ve been to many Coachellas and Lollapaloozas and I’d have to say… Life is Beautiful Festival really out did themselves.
This is the very first Life is Beautiful Festival and so it wasn’t so crowded, which was nice… but I have a feeling it’s just going to get bigger and bigger as word of mouth travels.
What made the Life is Beautiful Festival so fantabulous and amazing:
1. The name says it all: LIFE is BEAUTIFUL! It truly is and we all need to appreciate it a bit more.
2. It’s much more than a music festival, it incorporated 4 aspects: Music, Food, Art and Learning… which made for an experience unlike any other festival.
3. The location: Downtown Las Vegas… Las Vegas is an amazing city in itself. But the beautification of Downtown … amazing, the artwork on walls of old buildings. It’s quite the improvement.
4. The music lineup! Wow! Alabama Shakes, Zedd, The Killers, Imagine Dragons, Empire of the Sun, Vampire Weekend, Passion Pit, Pretty Lights, Jurassic 5, Childish Gambino, Janelle Monae, Dawes, Portugal the Man, Kings of Leon, BECK … and seriously it just goes on and on. The performances were absolutely amazing… Music is Beautiful
5. The Food! Oh my, yummy tastes from all the great restaurants in Las Vegas, including top chefs chilling around the culinary village all over the place! I was pretty star struck seeing Hubert Keller, Aaron Sanchez and Rick Moonen! But I absolutely loved the Culinary Village and took the opportunity to try some delectable bites, with my favorite being the tent from Nobu… Food is Beautiful
6. The Art… it seriously was everywhere. Massive graffiti art on old hotel walls, even a 3D graffiti mural! Tons of interactive art from concert goers. An old motel, gutted and became an empty canvas for artist. Art is Beautiful
7. Learning, I found this aspect to be the most interesting. And truly put this festival above all others. There were guest speakers throughout the festival. Successful beautiful entrepreneurs giving talks! Although I wasn’t able to listen in on any of the talks, the bio of Tony Hsieh, CEO of
was the most interesting and therefore led me to read his book Delivering Happiness (which was a pretty good read). Then I discovered it was Tony who is beautifying Downtown Las Vegas and creating this festival. Learning is growth and both are beautiful!
8. Tickets were reasonably priced! And I decided to get the park and ride, which was also excellent. No lines and plenty of buses waiting to take you to and from!
Overall it was very organized and I enjoyed my time here! Can’t wait till next year.

I had no expectations from this event aside from wanting to go to an event that wasn’t EDM (ie. rave) and considering it was the first one ever. My friends and I had a wonderful time. And we liked the fact that there were ins and outs. There were some people dressed up in (interesting) costumes). As for the setup, everything was sort of far apart. We got some exercise in walking from one area to the next. Some of the art was cool. The food court area was awesome; it was a taste of Vegas all in one area. The crappy part was looking for alcohol that wasn’t beer. My friends and I went into a casino that served it but they served it like crap and it was totally overpriced. The waiter was weird. Can’t pour for sh*t. Anyway, overall, the performers were great. My friends and I especially enjoyed seeing the Killers live. Until next year…
Parking — some places were expensive. We settled at a place for $ 20 each night.