Purple Revolver Festival

I’m a 70s kid and from some of the pictures on the
website, I thought, hey this is kind of cool! Big hair, groovy times, like Austin Powers era right?
Well, not quite.
I kind of didn’t understand the concept when I got there. I mean, there were muscle cars and some of the older police cars that were there on display that brought you to the correct era. That made some sense. I didn’t really see much hippies, big fro ladies on skates, people smoking out and wearing tie dye shirts. I did see some zombies and some vendors selling some goods that are not era related. There were food trucks, I counted 8 of them which included dogzilla and the lobsta truck.
Being the first event, I will give it up to the bands. The ones they had were above decent. They had Britain’s Finest, Queen Nation & Led Zepplica. The Karaōke area was fun and it kept giong for the duration that I was there. The beer garden was quite small, but the $ 5 price for a beer was spot on.
Maybe I was expecting a lot more or maybe their website lead me to believe it was more of a real 70s event instead of a mish mosh of sorts. It was definitely good first event. As the organizers, I would’ve put more signs leading to the parking lot. Even signs for individual areas. Also it was kind of strange to have food trucks in two different places. I would go again if I got the tix for free just to see the bands and not expect anything else.

Billed as «Woodstock meets the Warped Tour,» Purple Revolver celebrates the 60s and 70s popular culture with a 21^st century slant. The family-​rated retro event infuses classic rock, vintage fashions and high-​performance muscle cars along with pop culture, gourmet food trucks, a cool beer garden, karaōke, celebrity look-​a-​likes and a three acre festival.