CaMpOuT rOOts Festival and Gathering

The Experience-
CaMpOuT rOOts Festival and Gathering
The Campout Roots Festival and Gathering is a 3 day music festival that has been making people smile and jam since 2001. The festival showcases many of the best regional and locals bands in the music scene. Built on the philosophy of community and togetherness the Campout Roots Festival and Gathering has stayed true to this grassroots idea. It is a safe place to make friends and have a great time with old friends. Campout Roots is a growing community and we want you to be a part of the experience! The festival is an intimate gathering made up of a community of believers that share the campout vision and many new friends joining along side of us. A weekend at CaMpOuT Roots is filled with fun activities and lots of FRISBEE GOLF, fun games, and of course DRUM CIRCLES. The Campout Crew is made up of music lovers that know how to get down and dance their butts off. This gathering has been put together for people just like you, plain and simple.... Come join us...
"This festival is about one thing, music- not attendence, not profit margins, not anything besides dancing our butts off..."
Quoted in Volumne One 2006 Article by Matt Baudo
The Venue
The 2008 Campout Roots Festival and Gathering will be coming home to Black River Falls Wisconsin. Many of you have helped make Black River Falls a memorable campground for the last few years. For anyone who has not been to the NCN campgrounds you are in for an amazing weekend. NCN North is conveniently located 5 miles off Interstate I-94 with only one simple turn off the interstate onto US hwy 12.
BLK River Falls is a short drive from many locations including Minneapolis/St Paul, Madison, Green Bay, and LaCrosse among many other places where you all come from. The Campground offers 75+ acres of spacious camping, with plenty of wooded camping. A beautiful swimming pond with beach (onsite) has been a favorite of many of the Campout Folk and the campground offers plenty of walking trails, pavilions, volleyball courts flush toliets, showers, and a great main stage and side stages tucked back far from the road. This campground has it all The Campout is a safe community where you are free to express yourself and can leave behind many of the day to day stresses of life.
Remember, Campout is scheduled for Thursday June 5th, Friday June 6th, and Saturday June 7th. Gates will open at high noon on Thursday and will close at 2pm Sunday. We have been working on a great line up that we hope to release within two weeks as well as 08 ticket details. We have many fun activities plan and are working hard to make this year’s gathering another great time. In the past we have had workshops, a Frisbee golf course, fire dancers, drum circles, and of course plenty of great bands!!
The CaMpOuT R. F. G.
It all started so long ago, where should we even begin... It all really began before we knew it... We were all living our days chasing a dream, one that we were uncertain and hazy of the outcome, what we wanted or where to begin. That dream kept burning a hole in our souls telling us that it was what needed to be, what should be, and most importantly what could be. It was life as we knew it, and how we loved the passion that it embodied.
The roots festival got its name from what was the most important part of our show... Our Roots. That’s when some close/old friends and some new friends were united/reunited. A spark we were looking for was ignited, something new, something better, something great, something pure and fun, while being observant to our roots. The roots of everything we know, where we came from, how we were raised, and what we eventually have been evolving into. It is everything we live for and stand for, music, love, life, the joy of the moment, and the joy of giving and sharing, sharing what you have at hand with whom you have around you. Sharing thoughts and ideas, sharing memories, while making new ones. We wanted something completely true and honest, something to look forward to. There are no words known to us that would help us convey what the campout is about. It is something that changes people and creates experiences that last a life time.
In this complicated world and this overly complex society, we wanted to offer some sort of freedom-from that society, from every day living, pain, anxiety, stress-just plain and simple, care free fun-that of which we all remember clearly from our childhood days. We want to promote togetherness... being able to freely express you thoughts. Its sort of our way of giving back, not only to the fortunate ones who can attend, but also in helping those in our community who are less fortunate - which is where the origin of the food drive started. We share this ideology with everything we do, that is bringing positive energy and making something happen.
It is caring, compassion, understanding and an infallible love that makes us inherently human. We can all make this world a better place and still have fun doing it...
"Bring a song, bring a friend, cause these three nights will never end"
Peace Togetherness and Big Big dreams
Zacharious and Vince