Festival Recap: The 2019 Resonance Music and Arts Festival at Cooper's Lake - Slippery Rock, PA 9/19-22 - 215Music

Festival Recap: The 2019 Resonance Music and Arts Festival at Cooper's Lake - Slippery Rock, PA 9/19-22

Summer has come and gone, but just before it slipped away we had a chance to attend the 6th annual Resonance Music and Arts Festival at Cooper's Lake in Slippery Rock, PA hosted by Asheville's Papadosio with a slew of Jam, Jamtronica & EDM acts appearing throughout the weekend on six total stages including the VIP stage by the lake. The festival was previously held in Legend Valley, OH and took its new home this year at Cooper's Lake Campground on a 500 acre well-equipped campus to supply and service a busy festival crowd. The four day festival featured acts from all over the country and brought over 80 craft & food vendors to the festival sidelines, where you could find just about everything under the sun to eat. Over the course of the festival, various workshops, yoga sessions, art galleries, installations, and daytime activities took place overlooking the serene view of Cooper's lake while campers buzzed around the lush, woodsy grounds and made themselves at home for the weekend on this gorgeous property ready to take in a weekend full of music and art.

All during the festival one could overhear festival attendees commenting and praising the new site and its facilities...with ample space, running water spigots, a 'town center' with a general store stocked to the gills, but more importantly, it served coffee! Resonance Festival leveraged a large volunteer program this year to assist with production and service, a massively successful effort by all involved servicing needs of the artists, staff, grounds, parking and providing waste management services on the festival campus. Resonance 2019 ran like a well-oiled machine with fluid and on-time stage transitions, artist sit-in and VIP sets. Aside from a 30-minute schedule delay due to heavy rain on Saturday evening before Tipper's twilight set on the main stage, the festival transpired flawlessly in the eyes of any attendee. Happy faces everywhere, big smiles, big hugs, warm days, and cool nights graced the grounds of Resonance. Almost every festival attendee that we chatted with ranked this at the top...quite an impressive job by all involved for an outstanding weekend of music, camping and art. See you in 2020!

Check out photos from the 4-day festival below

Day 1: Papadosio, Dopapod, Pigeons Playing Ping Pong, CHON, Consider The Source, Star Kitchen, Litz, The Polish Ambassador, 5AM Trio, and Goose closing the night out on the barn stage.

Dopapod

Pigeons Playing Ping Pong

Anthony Thogmartin with Papadosio

Goose on the Barn stage late night

Polish Ambassador

Papadosio

Dopapod

Jonathan Grusauskas with lespecial

Marc Brownstein with Star Kitchen

Goose

Charles William Powers with Dopapod

Goose

Papadosio

lespecial

Marlon Lewis with Star Kitchen

Dopapod

Ben Carey with Pigeons Playing Ping Pong

Luke Bemand with lespecial

Rick and Peter with Goose

Greg Ormont with Pigeons Playing Ping Pong

Gabriel Marin with Consider The Source

Jeremy Schon with Pigeons Playing Ping Pong

John Ferarra with Consider The Source

Polish Ambassador

Erick Hansel with CHON

Mario Camarena with CHON

lespecial

Day 2: Tipper, Papadosio, Pigeons Playing Ping Pong, Twiddle, Leftover Salmon with Keller Williams, Pittsburgh's Black Moth Super Rainbow, Goose, Dizgo, Polish Ambassador, and Sunsquabi who took us into the morning hours

Pigeons Playing Ping Pong

Maureen 'Maux' Boyle with Black Moth Super Rainbow

Pigeons Playing Ping Pong

Alejo

Sunsquabi

Dizgo with Marcus Rezak

Freekbass with Keller Williams and Friends

Tipper

Keller Williamns

Ryan Dempsey of Twiddle

Pigeons Playing Ping Pong

Papadosio

Rick Mitarotonda with Goose

Pigeons Playing Ping Pong

Black Moth Super Rainbow

Goose

Dizgo

Papadosio Gorillaz set

Thomas Fec aka TOBACCO with Black Moth Super Rainbow

Dizgo with Marcus Rezak

Rick Mitarotonda and Peter Anspach with Goose

Black Moth Super Rainbow

Mihali of Twiddle

Day 3: Tycho, Tipper, Tauk, Twiddle. SPAGA, Jake Cinninger & Brendan Bayliss Acoustic, Black Moth Super Rainbow, Umphrey's McGee, Doom Flamingo, Goose, and Cycles