Circle The Wagons

Circle The Wagons just might be my new favourite festival in Calgary. A healthy, family friendly music and food truck festival and it doesn’t even have a beer gardens because the whole place is the beer gardens! Hold up you conservative types, this is actually what makes circle the wagons so healthy and family friendly. Instead of binge drinking in a beer gardens cage away from the music, you can buy a drink and casually walk around and enjoy the entire festival. This is the first day long music festival of my life where I didn’t see anyone that was out of control.
Instead of a beer gardens, there was an off-​leash gardens for dogs. It was great. Puppies everywhere, kids every where, and people getting along together and enjoying the sunshine.
A giant ring of food trucks, still serving their full size portions makes me feel like a music festival with food, as opposed to a food truck festival with music, where hopefully I’d get the chance to try multiple trucks providing samples, but that’s AOK. There was more than enough excellent entertainment around to not have the trucks be the centre of attention. Beach Volleyball (being kid friendly became more of a giant sandbox for the children) and bubble soccer, which unfortunately I didn’t play.
Stage was great and the sound was awesome. There were plenty of circus and festival performers doing there thing. It’s so cool to see the larger Calgary community showing interest in our local burner scene. So great. Not being much of an EDM fan, I would have loved to have seen more live music, but what was there was excellent. Fantastic music selections, folks.
The Circle The Wagons concept is groundbreaking for this city and I’m excited to see such a huge step forward Calgary and hopefully more incredible festivals of this likeness to come.

A family and animal friendly food truck concert? For realsies?
There was a beach volleyball court, circus, food trucks, freakshow, beer gardens, and a killer lineup of acts.
I can’t wait until next year!