Stories from Love Fest 2024

Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents - Brenda Hansen, with her brother Dwayne and Kenny Hanuse, greeted the audience of Love Fest 2024 with the ‘Klahoose Welcome Song.’ (You can listen to it, sung in the ʔayʔaǰuθəm language, in the podcast version of this story.)  Close to 700 people purchased tickets, performed, or were at the event on Saturday August 10. Cortes Currents went backstage to interview some of the performers and record clips of their music.  Singer/songwriter Rick Scott explained, “I've often  been  interested in what happened with the hippie movement.  Because the hippies got it right on a lot of levels. The ecology, community,  the idea of cooperative  and  there was also a musical Renaissance that happened. All these  things coming out of that time were so great and it got co-opted.  Suddenly, Coca Cola had long hair, and the Monkees were clean-cut hippies. Like so many things, it got bought out and changed. We all grew older,  the computer age happened and all these things  distorted it in a different way. Something like the Love Fest reminds me of the essence of that time, that renaissance I call it.”