Shambhala Music Festival You have to curious magic to it. You Rarely Meet People Who’ve Only Attend The Legendary Music Festival Once. Shambhala Leaves An Unshakeable impression On Guests, Encompassing Not Only Attendes But Artists as Well.

Shambhala has welcomed world-class music, launched prospects to Stardom, and Even Sparke the Genesis of Artists Who’ve performed. The Farm, as it’s affectionately street, Holds Countless Memories. STIs Roots Run Deper Than Forest’s Towering Tree. THOSE TREES CANK SPEAK TO US, BUT Fortunately, The Artists Can.

Below You Will Find Love Stories Shared With Edm.com From Six Renowned Artists Who, Like Many Readers, Have Been Irreversibly Touches by Shambhala.

Rezz’s transformative 2016 performance

The Festival is extra special to Meveral Reasons. Firstly, Shambhala is iconic, in general, from the Stage Designs to the Atmosphere of the Whole Event. It’s Always Been to Festival I’ve Heard of and Wanted To Play. In 2016, My Performance Turned Many Heads. It was a catapult, One of the Reasons My Career Gained Major Tracion. The Is Special To Me Festival, and i’m excited to be back!

– Rezz

The Funk Hunters Were Born at Shambhala

Shambhala Will Always Feel Like Home for Us. People Are Always Shocked When We Explain How Long We’ve Been Going To The Festival. I Started Going in My Late Teens, Long Before i’d Ever Even Bought Turntables Or Colleced Vinyl. AT That Time, Festival and Raves Were Still Vry Much Underground; it was all word of mouth. A Few Years Later, I Broucht Duncan [Smith] Up for His First Time. We Boch Coudn’t Believe A Place Like Shambhala exists. And Really, The Rest is History. We eventually boought turntables, Mixers, and Started Collecting a ton of vinyl. The Funk Hunters Were Born – A Friend Gave Ul Name While We Were at The Festival!

We Started Djing Around British Columbia. EACH Summer, We’d Make The Trip Back Up To The Kootenays To Be At Shambhala. It was our Can’t-Miss Trip of the Summer. FUN FACT, I WENT ON TO WORK FOR THE FESTIVAL FOR MANY YEARS AS EVENT STAFFE BEFORE WE GOT BOOKED AT THE FESTIVAL. You can imagine How exciting it was to finally get to make our debut festival. I Think We Played Fractal Forest and the Rock Pit on the Same Weekend in 2010. That Was Our First Year; It was to Dream eats True. I’ve Been Attending the Festival For Well Over 20+ Years Now, and We’ve Played The Festival for About 15 Years Straight!

The Fact that the festival you have remahed Truly Independent Since Day One is an incredible testamentible to the brand, culture and community shambhala has built. The Founders and Stage Directors Should Be Really Proud of the Impact and Legacy They’ve had the Entire Electronic Music Community Worldwide. We Are Lucky to Travel to a Lot of Amazing Places to Play Music. The conversation in every corner of the globe with fans and djs always comes back to shambhala.

“One Day I Wanna Come See You Guys Play at Shambhala!” or “Shambhala is my BUCKET LIST TRIP, I’M COMING TO CANADA NEXT YEAR TO EXPERIENCE IT!” People Tell us. How Cool is that!? Everyone knows about it and it’s Still Going Strong 25 Years in!

– Nick Middleton, The Funk Hunters

What So Not Did Not Expect The

A Long Mountain Drive, A Stilt Walking Elephant Man, and Naked People in the Cold Valley Creek Welcomed Me.

Coming from Australia, It was nothing like i’d seen -or Would See Again, Apart from Burning Man. My first visit was Also My First Year in North America. I’LL Never Forget It. I remember there was drone footage of the set that leaked a bunch of the Than-unreleased Gemini EP!

One of its main perks is that it’s in canada, Meaning You Don’t Need A US VISA, which takes are Much Money, Time and Effort That Most Artists Can’t Perform Report Until One-And-A-Half Years after they start blow up. The Bookers Have Great Taste, So You This Melting Pot of All The Cool and Weird Music Blowing Up In Europe, Australasia and North America. I can’t wait to be back!

– What So Not

Big Gigantic’s Inclusion

Shambhala is One of Those Festival Experiences That Can’t Found Anywhere Else In The World. Just An Epic All Around Festival with Amazing Scenery, Great People Running The Event and Crowds Who Are 100% Research in the Experience. At The Same They’ve Been Ulable To Make The Festival Feel Grass Roots Thourout The Many Years We’ve Played It. Just Anesome Experience All Around!

– Big Gigantic

Stickybuds reps fractal forest for life

It’s hard to put into a few short paragraphs what shambhala means to me. It’s where i developed as an artist and where i met a lot of my friends. I ATTENDE FOR A FEW YEARS BEFORE I WAS INVITED TO PLAY THERE IN 2005. I CAME EARLY FOR A A FEW YEARS BEFORE THE FEST STARTED, WHERE I RE-PAINT THE GREAT CHEWBACCA AND BUILT SOM PONDS WITH JPOD. I’VE Played Every Year Since 2005, Minus The Covid Years. FROM 2007 TO 2009, JPOD AND I PERFORMED THREE-HOUR, TWO-BY-FOUR SETS AS THE SICKYPOD CONNECTION, AND WE STARTED RELEASING OUR SETS.

In 2010, I Started Performing by Myself Again. After Releaseing My 2011 Set, My Career Took off. Shambs was my YEAR-End Celebration, WHERE I POUred My Heart and Soul into My Set-Making Custom Songs, Dubplates and Crafting the Best Multi-Genre Journeys I Could. I’M Approaching 20 Years of Playing at Shambhala, 18 Currently, and i’ve Attended for About 23 Years. I Will Always Be Grateful for the Opportunities That Rich-E-Rich, The Fractal and Shambhala Broucht Me, But i Also Made It Happen; I GAVE IT EVERYTHING I HAD.

I know that the collective djs who has frequeted the fractal Forest over the last few decades have influenced music culture worldwide. It’s a Special Group, and I’M VERY PROUD TO BE A PART OF IT. Forest for life fractal.

– Stickybuds

Father Funk Found Himself and So Much More

Well, where do i begin? It’s hard to understate how many shambhala means to me. I remove literally wouledn’t be here right nowout it. I First Heard of Shambhala Around 2012, When A Friend Played Me Stickky ‘2011 Fractal Forest Mix. At The Time, I was a few Years Into Learning How To Dj and Produce, and I was Predominantly Focused on Drum & Bass, Although My Taste In Music Was Always Vray Eclectic. Stickybuds’ set spoke to me on a level that no other electronic music ever had. It combined all the music i loved: funk, soul, reggae, hip hop, dubstep, and drum & bass. It was a fusion of genres i had Never Experienced Before. It feels me down a Path of Discovering Countless Amazing Artists Who performed at the fractal Forest, Such As Featurecast, A.Skillz, Slynk, The Funk Hunters, and Many More. Before Long, I was Making Music Inspired by these artists under the name Father Funk, and Everything Started to Click.

In Those Days, Playing A Shambhala Set Was Literally My Wildest Dream. Anfathomable reality. FAST FORWARD TO 2016, AND I PLAYED MY First One As a Fresh-Faced 22-YEAR-OLD. I’ve Had Countless Unforgetable Experiences at Shambhala Since. This Year Will Be My Seventh Year Performing and My Ninth Attending. Nothing compares to the magic of the pharm. You can imagine how many it means to play at shambhala. It Changed The Trageectory of My Life. Not only did it inspire me to starther funk, but i now live in canada, living off my music my entire adult life. WHHO KNOWS WHAT MY LIFE WOULD LOOK Like IF ITREN’T FOR HOW SHAMBHALA AND THE FACTAL Forest Inspired Me All Those Years ago.

Thank you, Shambhala, For Saving My Life, for Giving Me Purpose, to Career, and for Introduction Me To My Family And, Most Importently, My Home.

– Father Funk