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Hey Festival Friends! What do you get when you combine great food, the best California wine, top chefs and top Food Network personalities with great weather? You get the Del Mar Wine & Food Festival.
On this episode, our guest is Food Network personality and the co-founder of the Del Mar Wine & Food Festival, Troy Johnson. 
A lifelong San Diego resident, Troy takes us through his career as a music and food writer and TV personality to launching this incredible festival in the city he loves. 
For a decade now (yes, a decade) Troy has been a featured judge on Guy’s Grocery Games on the Food Network and takes us behind the scenes to the hilarious story of the first time he met Guy Fieri himself. 
Troy also shares his story of taking over San Diego Magazine with his wife and doing his part to use that platform to lift up restaurants during and after the pandemic.
The inaugural Del Mar Wine & Food Festival will feature the best chefs of San Diego and the Baja Peninsula and will feature key events like a Dos Hombres Mezcal pairing dinner with Aaron Paul and Bryan Cranston. We also hear there will be a dry aged bone marrow tasting, which we’ve never seen on the food festival circuit before.
There will also be appearances by other celebrities including Surfing Champion Rob Machado and a celebrity PickleBall Tournament hosted by Drew Brees! 
Mark your calendars for September 6-11 and be there in San Diego for all the action! 
 
To find out more about the Del Mar Wine & Food Festival and Troy:
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Welcome back festival friends. On this episode of FestivalPass Stories, our Host, Pat Tully sits down with Paul Reder, the founder of Bass Camp Festival, the electronic dance party in Reno on Lake Tahoe.
 
 
July 28-30, 2023, Bass Camp will host its 6th annual festival taking place on multiple stages and locations over a 3-day period. The festival will be headlined by Deadmou5 and Madeon and Bass Camp Festival will take place at a new home in Wingfield Park, right in the Truckee River! 
 
 
"We are beyond excited to host Bass Camp VI in Wingfield Park this summer with the gorgeous Truckee River flowing through the festival grounds," says Paul Reder, Founder/CEO of Bass Camp Festival, Inc. "The river and all grass park will be a brilliant addition to this already amazing annual event as well as a great place to cool down in the water while listening and dancing to our many talented artists this summer," says Reder.
 
 
Pat takes us back to Paul’s early days in the music business booking acts for his fellow Co-Eds at the University of Arkansas to his 12 plus years working with some of the biggest music and comedy acts including Stevie Nicks, Sting, Jerry Seinfeld and many others at Caesars. 
 
 
A decade ago, Paul decided it was time to go out on his own and created PRE Entertainment which produces over 150 shows and festivals annually including 3 that he owns The Lake Tahoe Reggae Festival, The Lake Tahoe Bluegrass Festival, and Bass Camp Festival.
 
 
Hear more about these stories and some great music festival stories here on this episode of FestivalPass Stories.
 
 
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Is there anything quite like an Atlanta live music festival? They are famous, but one in the 90’s was infamous and it’s now back, in modern form. Freaknik Festival was so over the top that Hulu recently released a mini-series: Freaknik: The Wildest Party Never Told.  
 
 

On this episode of FestivalPass Stories, our Host Pat Tully goes behind the scenes with one of Atlanta’s legendary party promoters, Carlos Neal, to hear the stories behind why he decided to bring back the 90’s festival that still has people talking.  
 
 

With a Master's Degree in in data science and machine learning and an undergraduate degree in finance, Calos delivers a unique set of skills, employing data and modeling to prepare budgets, projections and capacity for all his events. Those elements were missing from the original FreakNik Festival and will make this version a safer, more enjoyable party while still keeping its edge. 
 
 

Neal’s After 9 Partners group has added a non-profit foundation to Freaknik, making it a true party with a purpose. 
 
 
 

Freaknik is sponsored by MetaWorks and MusicFX which is also adding a digital wallet element and NFT offerings for the artists.  
 

 
Find out more about Freaknik, how to get tickets and the lineup on this episode. 
 
 

Hear more about these stories and some great music festival stories here on this episode of FestivalPass Stories.  
 
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Andrew McMahon website:https://www.freaknikfest.com
 
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Festival friends it’s a treat when we get to talk to a founder of an iconic festival and on this episode of FestivalPass Stories, our Host, Pat Tully sits down with the founder of the iconic South Beach Wine & Food Festival and the New York City Wine & Food Festival, Lee Schrager.
 
Lee takes us back to the beginning days of SOBE WFF and tells us how it all started on the gorgeous beaches of Miami and then gives us the inspiration behind franchising that festival to NYC.
 
Schrager’s official title is the Chief Communications Officer & SVP Social Responsibility for Southern Glazer's Wine & Spirits, the world’s largest distributor of wines & spirits. 
 
But the title he is most excited about right now is as founder of the brand-new inaugural Nassau Paradise Island Wine & Food Festival (NPIWFF) taking place at the iconic Atlantis Resort in the Bahamas. Headlining chefs at NPIWFF include Aaron Sanchez, Andrew Zimmern, Alex Guarnaschelli, Michael White, Jose Andres, Duff Goldman and more! 
 
Besides the chefs tastings, there are events including the Rum Runner’s Walking Tour, Sunset Dinner Cruises, wine tastings and more. 
 
Schrager’s wine & food festivals have always been focused on culinary greatness and giving back. NPIWFF will continue that tradition partnering with the Blue Project Foundation saving sea species and their extraordinary habitats.
 
Hear more about these stories and some great music festival stories here on this episode of FestivalPass Stories. 
 
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Website: https://www.atlantisbahamas.com/wine-and-food-festival 
 
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Fine out more about the Blue Project Foundation https://blueprojectatlantis.org/
 
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Fans of the 2000’s music, this one’s for you! Our Host, Pat Tully sits down with one of the most prolific indie pop singer-songwriters of the past two decades, Andrew McMahon.
 
Pat takes us on a musical journey of Andrew’s meteoric rise through his early days with the group Something Corporate, which he started in high school, to his first solo project Jack’s Mannequin to his current solo project Andrew McMahon In The Wilderness.
 
Andrew has been writing songs since he was 9 years old and led Something Corporate to major chart success in the early 2000’s before branching out on his own. 
 
Along the way, Andrew used personal painful and joyful experiences in his life to fuel his music. His own personal health struggles were the influence in many of his solo numbers and motivated him to start the Dear Jack Foundation to provide programming to benefit adolescents and young adults diagnosed with cancer.
 
His new album Tilt at the Wind No More comes five years after his last release, Upside Down Flowers. The album captures McMahon at a turning point: celebrating his 40th birthday and 15 years of marriage, raising a daughter, hiring a whole new team, life! 
 
On this album he works with Producer Tommy English (K. Flay, Carly Rae Jepsen) and Producer Jeremy Hatcher (Harry Styles, Shawn Mendes). 
 
Listen to hear more about the music, the journey and Andrew’s own personal festival stories! 
 
Hear more about these stories and some great music festival stories here on this episode of FestivalPass Stories. 
 
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Festival friends, welcome back to another episode of FestivalPass Stories. On this episode our host, Pat Tully brings us a “force to be reckoned with,” which is what the media says about the Synth-Pop trio of Kayah, Emily and Leah AKA Moonkissed.
 
The band burst onto the scene after meeting at a party on New York’s lower east side. It was love at first sight and the band immediately clicked.
 
Tully talks to them about how they not only met and clicked, but how they got through the difficulty of the pandemic while not being able to perform for their loyal fan base.
 
The Pandemic brought about serious creativity from artists and Moonkissed was no exception. Their song “Clubbing in your bedroom” resonated with everyone and became an instant hit.
 
Kayah Cohen on the track: ’Clubbing In Your Bedroom,” is an invitation to get dressed up for no one and nothing and to move your body in order to heal. The song was written in an attempt for salvation and levity amidst pandemic despair.’
 
Now back on the live music and festival circuit, Moonkissed were named a SXSW official Artist in 2022, a big moment for the band.
 
To be Moonkissed is to be loved and we know you will feel ‘Moonkissed’ and inspired by this awesome band after listening to this episode.
 
Hear more about these stories and some great music festival stories here on this episode of FestivalPass Stories.
 
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Moonkissed website: https://moonkissedmusic.com/
 
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