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Thursday, August 22, 2013
The University Daily Kansan
CHICAGO
CONTRIBUTED PHOTO/ASHLEY GARMOI
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Thousands gather to watch their favorite bands perform live at Lollapaloza in Grant Park in Chicago. Lollapaloza is a three-day music festival in downtown Chicago every year.
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At any music festival, you're bound to wind up waiting at a stage for the band you love while
a host of others occupy your time. Because you rarely have a chance to stop and look around for an extended moment, it makes sense that these fleeting elements overlap.
On this clear Sunday afternoon in Chicago, Alex Clare stands in front of a crowd of thousands at the Bud Light stage and belts out the smooth chorus to "Where Is The Heart In This?" with a tallit barely peeking out from under his blue button-down shirt. The lyrics seep out of the speakers and slide over the faces of the masses causing you to sway along with the song.
It's an involuntary movement. Your mind is elsewhere. Perhaps dreaming about Phoenix taking the same stage in a few hours, or reliving Saturday night's session with Queens
of the Stone Age, yet your body is grooving.
That's when the breeze comes. The soothing cool that skims off the top of Lake Michigan on the east side of Grant Park and glides across the city. It swirls around your head and neck, rarely dipping any lower. It's not cold, but still chilling, and it's been there all weekend, you just never had time to notice it.
In a season plagued by large festivals, the wind flow is certainly not what separates Lollapalooaza from the bunch. No, this is more of an added perk. A welcomed gift that returns over and over again.
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As Ezra Koenig, the New York-bred front man for Vampire Weekend, pointed out during his set, other major metropolises don't do this. New York doesn't shut down Central Park to bring more than one hundred artists across all platforms of music to town. Los Angeles doesn't pack 160,000 people onto Santa Monica Pier at once.
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