VanFest is an annual music festival which takes place in
Maple Valley, Washington,
United States
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. It was founded in 2011 as a grassroots project by namesake Van Wolfe,
who was a student at
Tahoma Senior High School
Tahoma High School (THS) is a public high school serving grades nine through twelve, and is the only high school in the Tahoma School District. The school provides for citizens in southeast King County, and has been housed in multiple buildings, ...
at the time and described in ''
The Stranger'' as a "superhuman".
The event series, featuring largely
Pacific Northwest
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local bands, benefits the Maple Valley
food bank.
VanFest Five, held in 2015, boasted four stages and 36 bands performing.
[ VanFest 2016 featured three stages along with a hip hop tent.
]
Notable performers
*Willis Earl Beal
Willis Earl Beal (also known as Nobody) is an artist and musician.
Early years
Willis Earl Beal was born on the south side of Chicago, Illinois. In his early twenties Beal joined the U.S. Army, moving to Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. Beal was m ...
(2014)[
*]Jason Webley
Jason Webley is an American musician known for his sincere fusion of folk, experimental, and alternative music. Webley plays the guitar and accordion, sometimes providing percussion by stomping or shaking a plastic vodka bottle filled with coins. ...
(2014)[
*]Car Seat Headrest
Car Seat Headrest (CSH) is an American indie rock band formed in Leesburg, Virginia, and currently located in Seattle, Washington. The band consists of Will Toledo (vocals, guitar, piano, synthesizers), Ethan Ives (guitar, bass, backing vocals) ...
(2015)MC Lars
Andrew Robert Nielsen (born October 6, 1982), known professionally as MC Lars, is an American record producer, rapper, cartoonist, podcaster and educator. Lars is one of the self-proclaimed originators of "lit-hop", and is the founder and CEO of ...
(2016)[
* Kitty (2015)][http://www.northwestmusicscene.com/2015/06/5th-annual-vanfest-to-bring-stellar-lineup-to-maple-valley/]
References
External links
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Music festivals established in 2011
Hip hop music festivals in the United States
Indie rock festivals
Music festivals in Washington (state)
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