august 12th - 14th 1pm - 11pm
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August 12th - 14th1pm - 11pm
Dream Festival
What is theDream Festival?
Welcome to the 2020 Gig Buddies Dream Festival! The Dream Festival is a 3 day online music festival featuring some of the biggest names in music. It’s the festival line up that never was!
Join us on Zoom for 3 days of concerts, DJ sessions, cocktails and all sorts of fun!
The Dream Festival will be open from 1pm until 11pm from Wednesday 12th August until Friday 14th August.
This book contains everything you need to know about the Gig Buddies Dream Festival including how to get involved, highlights for each day, information about our headline acts, and even some example recipes for our daily cocktail hour!
Welcome to the 2020 Gig Buddies Dream Festival...
How do I join in?Receiving your Dream Festival Pack is just the first step! The Dream Festival will be run through a video call app called Zoom.As long as you have Zoom installed on your laptop, phone or tablet, you’ll be able to join in. You don’t need an account with Zoom to take part.
To join the Zoom call for each day of the Dream Festival you will need a link. There are 2 ways to get this link. The first is to join our Private Facebook group. Simply search for ‘Gig Buddies Dream Festival 2020’ and ask to join the group. You will be asked if you have a Dream Festival Pack. If you’re reading this book, that means you have a Festival Pack! This pack is your ticket to the Dream Festival, we can’t let anyone in the group that doesn’t have a Festival Pack. We will post the Zoom links in this group.
If you dont use Facebook, please let us know and we will email you the links for each day of the Dream Festival.
Do not share any links, we don’t want strangers joining. You will be asked to show your dream festival wristband or ticket
when you join the call. We can’t let anyone in without it.
Two Tents to EnjoyMain Stage
This is where all the music will be happening! Ever wanted to see The Beatles, The Killers, and Elton John on the same line up, the Dream Festival Main Stage is where this happens!
CampsiteThe campsite is where you can go to chat to other festival goers, relax, take part in a craft session, quizzes, and more!
Using Zoom Breakout RoomsWhen you join the Dream Festival Zoom Call, you’ll be in the ‘Campsite Room’. The Main Stage will be in what Zoom call a ‘breakout room’. We will give you access to this. You’ll get a
message asking if you’d like to join it. You can leave it at anytime and come back to the Campsite. You can then go back when you want.
Download a Virtual BackGround
When you join our ‘Gig Buddies Dream Festival 2020’ facebook group, if you look in the ‘photos’ section, you’ll find loads of photographs of festivals that you can use as a virtual background on Zoom. This can help the Dream Festival feel like a real life festival with loads of people. Feel free to download any of them and set them as your Virtual Background.
On the first day of the Dream Festival their will be a workshop in the Campsite where we will show you how you can set pictures to be your virtual background. There are also lots of videos on the internet that show you how to do this. Just search ‘how do I set a zoom virtual background’.
More about ourHeadline Acts!
Sir Elton Hercules John is an English singer, songwriter, pianist, and composer. Since 1967 he’s recorded more than 30 albums, and has sold more than 300 million records, making him one of the best selling musicians of all time. John has also had success in musical films and theatre, composing for The Lion King, and Billy Elliot the Musical. Some of his biggest hits include ‘Your Song’, ‘I’m Still Standing’, and ‘Goodbye Yellow Brick Road’. In 2019 his life story was turned into the hit movie ‘Rocketman’.
Born and raised in Hawaii, Bruno Mars moved to Los Angeles in 2003 to pursue a musical career. Mars’ second album, Unorthodox Jukebox (2012), became his first number one album and won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album. Its singles “Locked Out of Heaven” and “When I Was Your Man”, reached number one on the US Hot 100 chart. In 2014, Mars collaborated with Mark Ronson on “Uptown Funk”, which topped many music charts worldwide.
Queen are a British rock band formed in 1970. Their classic line-up was Freddie Mercury, Brian May, Roger Taylor, and John Deacon. Queen first charted in the UK with their second album, Queen II, in 1974. Sheer Heart Attack later that year and A Night at the Opera in 1975 brought them international success. The latter featured “Bohemian Rhapsody”, which stayed at number one in the UK for nine weeks. In August 1986, Mercury gave his last performance with Queen, and died in 1991 due to complications from AIDS.
Cocktail Hour Recipies
- Juice of 1 lime - 1 tsp granulated sugar - Small handful mint leaves, plus extra sprig to serve - 60ml white rum - Soda water, to taste
Method
- Muddle the lime juice, sugar and mint leaves in a small jug, crushing the mint as you go – you can use the end of a rolling pin for this. - Pour into a tall glass and add a handful of ice. - Pour over the rum, stirring with a long-handled spoon. Top up with soda water, garnish with mint and serve.
- 25 ml vodka - 25 ml Kahlúa coffee liqueur - 25 ml espresso (or strong coffee) - 10 ml sugar syrup
Method
- Add 25ml vodka, 25ml Kahlúa, 10ml sugar syrup and 25ml espresso to an ice-filled cocktail shaker or sealed tupperware. - Shake well. Strain into a chilled Martini glass.
Mojito
TIP - For an alcohol free version, just leave out the rum!
Espresso Martini
TIP -For perfect sugar syrup, simmer equal volumes of water and sugar in a pan, stirring, until the sugar has dissolved. Cool before using.
mocktail Hour Recipies
- 1cm Thick slice of cucumber- 1 sprig of mint- A few frozen red berries- 120ml clear, sparkling lemonade- Ice
To Garnish:
- More frozen berries- Chopped fruit- Cucumber- Citrus- All Optional
Method
- Chop the cucumber and mint sprig into small pieces. Bring 200ml water to the boil in a small pan and then add the mint and cucumber. Turn off the heat and leave for 2 mins. - Add a small handful of frozen berries, let them defrost for a minute, then crush them lightly with the back of a spoon. Strain the mixture. This will keep in the fridge for up to 24 hours and will be enough to make four drinks. - Pour 40ml of your strained mixture into a tall glass. Add a handful of ice and top up with 120ml lemonade. - Garnish with whatever chopped fruit you like or some more frozen berries and mint leaves if you have them. Stir gently to combine.
- Handful of green grapes - Handful of blueberries - 4 tbsp grenadine
- 300-400ml orange juice - Sparkling water, to top up - 4 bamboo skewers
Method
- Thread the grapes and blueberries onto the skewers to make stirrers. - Pour the grenadine into four glasses. - Gently tip the glasses and pour the orange juice down the inside of the glasses so it sits on top of the grenadine. - Top up with sparking water, and add the stirrers to serve
Fruity Mocktail
Summer Cup
Festival At Home - TipsPut up a tent in your garden
Build a den indoors to create your own festival camp
Wear your wellies!
Get some festival food! Make burgers or order a pizza.
Decorate your room or garden with flags and banners
For the full experience, why not spend the night in your
den or tent
take lots of photos!
Just because your at home doesn’t mean you have to miss out on the
festival fun. get dressed up, as fancy as you like or even go full on fancy
dress, it is a festival!
Contact UsIf you have any questions about the Dream Festival
please feel free to get in touch with a member of staff from Gig Buddies with Thera Trust.
Our contact detials are:
EDINBURGH
West lothian
Glasgow
Sam Maggs - [email protected]
Debbie Forsyth - [email protected]
Molly Tavella - [email protected]