Concert in the Corn

This weekend I was kidnapped by a dear friend and taken to South Dakota of all places. Granted we weren't very far into South Dakota but none the less we were in South Dakota. What's in South Dakota you ask, well in the words of my friend "the largest free music event in the country" also known as Lifelight. Tens of thousands of people come together over the course of 3 packed days of Christian music performed on 6 different performance stages. The whole experience is a little overwhelming if you are a Lifelight virgin as I was. However I will say it was a really good time and the weather was beautiful.

Now as usual a lot of performers made a comment or two about the fact they were in South Dakota. Granted I am an Iowan not a South Dakotan but the comments pretty much sounded the same. You know how rural it is, how uncool we are even though we like to think we are gangsta in South Dakota etc. Now I am no longer offended by these things and in fact as we were walking around the event I decided that we kind of bring it on ourselves.

Lifelight this year was in a new location. Twelve miles south of Sioux Falls in Worthing SD. Really it wasn't even in Worthing it was east of Worthing. . .on a huge farm. . .that's right ladies and gentlemen a farm. The parking lots were what I assume used to be corn fields and corn fields surrounded the event grounds on all sides. One of the stages was in a barn, the merchandise vendors were also in barns or maybe those were machine sheds, I don't know what the technical term is for all the different buildings. There was another place filled with vendors called Lifelight alley, that was lined on one side with cilos. Cilos people cilos.

So really how can we not laugh at ourselves? We bring all kinds of musicians from big cities to the rural midwest. . .to a corn field to be exact. . .and we expect them not to make fun of us. We should really be making fun of ourselves. Anyway there are some random thoughts from my weekend at Lifelight. All in all it was a good time. There were also a lot of activities over the weekend, but I will save those for another post. Stayed tuned!