I purchased my ticket to Rekinection when it was originally scheduled for fall of 2020. The event had one of my favorite artists, Clozee, headlining and I was really trying to squeeze at least one event into 2020. Rekinection was also right in my backyard at one of my favorite venues I have been to multiple times, Astral Valley. I had hoped the smaller fest would be able to proceed despite ongoing covid concerns, but it was postponed to 2021 like many other events. There were some lineup changes due to the event being rescheduled, but I think it came out even better in the end. Of the Trees was added as a headliner and many more great artists were added to the undercard.
I just returned from my trip out to California for Untz festival which was the weekend before Rekinection. I had just enough time to get caught up with work before heading off for the next adventure. I was really looking forward to Rekinection since it would be my first time taking my RV to a festival and both of my brothers and many friends would be there with me.
We arrived to the festival on Thursday mid day, and entry was a breeze. We checked in and got our wristbands then proceeded to the area for RV parking without power. I found out quickly with the temperature in the 90s, that the generator wouldn’t power the AC and we would be without it for the weekend. Not a large issue since I didn’t plan on staying in the RV except to possibly lay down at the end of the night. I set up camp and then walked around the festival grounds to check everything out. I would say this festival might have been the largest one I have been to at astral valley, with quite a few vendors and a variety of food trucks to purchase from. We had quite a few good artists play Thursday night including Mlotik, Molokai, and Rafeeki. it was a great kickoff to an awesome weekend. We laid down at the stargazer stage on a blow up couch until we were ready to call it a night around 4 AM or so and headed to the RV to get a few hours of sleep.
My other brother and other friends arrived through through the day Friday. We didn’t have much service so its always a shit show trying to meet up and camp together but everything worked out pretty smoothly and everyone was able to find our camp. We had around 12 people or so total in a group so pretty decent squad for the weekend. We pretty much spent every day at the watering hole as it was really hot all weekend, it is one of the best features of Astral Valley and kept us nice and cool. Friday night the homie DonVon had his set so the squad went and showed love and support and he threw down a killer set. After that we went up to stargazer for the after hours action until the sun started to come up.
Saturday was by far the night I was looking forward to the most, Of the Trees and Clozee both threw the fuck down and killed it on the main stage, then Meso got the party started up at stargazer stage. We hung out vibing all night until the sun began to rise to bring an end to our festival experience. After packing things up around camp we got to walk around one last time and check out the vendors again and grab some merch. Glad I was able to give some feedback on our experience to one of the ladies who ran the festival when checking out merch. My only regret was that I hadn’t checked out any of the workshops that they put on through the weekend. It was a really beautiful event ran by wonderful people and I hope they continue to return to Astral Valley and curate wonderful experiences such as this.