By Haley Yates
The 2013 Wildflower! Festival rolled out a lineup featuring Blue Oyster Cult, Ray Wylie Hubbard, the Toadies, and more. Along with the music, there was art and non-musical entertainment for all festivalgoers.
Crowds gathered around the food stands, stuffing their faces with funnel cakes, empanadas, and foot-long corn dogs. A major crowd pleaser was the 80-foot long barbeque truck where people waited in mile long lines to get free samples of smoked sausage.
Wildflower!’s art scene was definitely something to see. While cooling of in the Eisman center, you could check out the art guitar setup near the entrance. Most of the guitars were decorated simply with etchings or floral paintings, but there were some crazier pieces like the fully equipped pirate ship guitar with figurines and cannons.
Along with a wide array of music, the crowd had some surprises too. I’ve never been to a festival where you can watch 40-sum-old women swaying and two-stepping to a psycho-billy country artist jamming out with his buddies one second, and then witness a hardcore mosh pit in front of the same stage an hour later. Rev. Horton Heat with its low-key, awkward dancing audience opened for Rock alternative Fort Worth band The Toadies Saturday evening.
Wildflower! had vendors that appealed to all Dallasites. Southern Bell Texans could try on the various cowboy hats or browse through the homemade honey and barbeque sauces, while the hipster scene of Dallas could buy handmade Indian jewelry that nobody else around will be wearing. If you don’t fall under either of these categories, there were other stands with “bimbo” and “beer” stitched socks, portraits of famous musicians, and handmade wooden crosses.
ALL PHOTOS BY HALEY YATES
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