Ep. 47 Inside the Bonnaroo Yearbook with Caleb Arias

Caleb Arias, creator of the Bonnaroo Yearbook Project and the mind behind The Bonnaroo Yearbook Guy, joins us to talk about documenting one of the most iconic music festivals in the world.

We talk about how the project has grown, what he’s learned along the way, and what’s next — including bringing the yearbook concept to Okeechobee Festival and expanding his Bonnaroo I Spy project.

Find Caleb on Instagram and TikTok @bonnarooyearbook and at bonnarooyearbook.com

Keywords: Bonnaroo, Bonnaroo Yearbook Project, Bonnaroo Yearbook Guy, music festivals, festival culture, festival photography, Okeechobee Festival, Hulaween.

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Transcript

Introduction

Sunny 0:00

Hey Vanessa.

Vanessa 0:01

Yeah Sunny?.

Sunny 0:02

What do you call two best friends that love music festivals?

Meet The Bonnaroo Yearbook Creator

Vanessa 0:06

Hmm. I guess you'd call them Festies! All right, Festies. Welcome back to another episode of Festies. We're really excited about this episode. You guys know how much we love to talk about Bonnaroo or at least I love to talk about Bonnaroo. We talk about it often on this podcast. And we're really excited about today's guest. He's someone that really contributes to the magic of Bonnaroo. We met him in 2023 at Bonnaroo, and he's been working on this really cool project regarding the festival for the past few years. So he's here to tell us all about it. Please welcome Caleb Arias. Did I say that right?

Caleb 1:14

Caleb Arias, but close enough

Sunny 1:17

Do it all again, the whole thing.

Caleb 1:19

Yeah, from the top. Yes, my name is Caleb Arias. I do the Bonnaroo Yearbook Project, and I actually have all my books here with me. So here is the 2023 and then the 2024 and then the 2025, which so purdy. But the long of the short of the project is I go around Bonnaroo and I basically spend the entire festival just gathering signatures from people. Like that was really the entire goal of my Bonnaroo, and you know, listening to music and having fun and all that. But ultimately, meeting new people, sitting down, and just letting people contribute whatever they want inside of a blank leather-bound journal. That was the start of it. And then I decided to make a printed book out of it. And I wanted other people to be able to have a physical printed copy. Because I did one for Lollapalooza one time, and I filled the whole thing with signatures, and I made an Instagram page of it, and it just didn't have that same tactile feel. Yeah. Like you couldn't flip through the pages. So that's when I made this. This was my first cool like translation. So this book of all these signatures, which you signed, Vanessa, yeah. The very first one I ever made like a printed book for.

Vanessa 2:47

I think Sunny did too, actually.

Sunny 2:49

Oh, I had Clark sign.

Caleb 2:50

Yeah, that's right.

Sunny 2:51

I was like, my handwriting's ugly. I don't want to be there forever.

Caleb 2:54

Clark, you do it. So then inside of the book, it's scans of all the pages of everyone's contributions. So no matter what you wrote, drew, you know, stickers, photos, you name it, it gets preserved and printed in an actual book. But I'm also a professional photographer by trade. So I wanted to have photos of people as they were signing the book as well. So you kind of get to see where the book has traveled around the farm. The book is all the signatures, all the photos of people signing it. On one page, you got church boner stickers out the wall too. And then on another page, you got someone writing about how they just got engaged at Where in the Woods. You know what I mean? Like there's so many different little just like moments. But as I was making the book, I'm like, I'm gonna go the extra mile. It's a yearbook, right? And what are in yearbooks if not superlatives? Superlatives, right? So and then it goes into things like best handwriting, best signature, you know, best drawing, best dressed, you know, things like that. That's amazing. And then I have fun facts like total signature count, most frequent names, homophones. What else I got in here? You put so much time and effort into this. High frequency names. Four people declined to sign the book. That's how many rejections there were. Four people didn't want to sign it. Hey, four out of sticker 65. Portugal the man signed this one, Remy Wolf signed this one.

Vanessa 4:41

What?

Caleb 4:42

And what else? And then there's like a little kind of note at the end and a little bit about how the process worked, and you can see like some of the behind the scenes a little bit. The three previous Bonnaroo yearbooks, I've made limited edition, each one of them, and I've signed them and like put the edition number, and each one is handcrafted essentially.

Vanessa 5:02

And how long did the first one take you to you know, flips ship out?

Caleb 5:07

So that one I had done like right around Christmas time. I was shipping them out like early January.

Sunny 5:14

Oh, okay. I'm curious, how come instead of going back to Lollapalooza and trying again, you decided to switch and do this at Bonnaroo?

Caleb 5:22

You ever been to Bonnaroo? Yes, come on. The community, the community of Bonnaroo is unlike any other festival I've ever been to. I've been to Coachella three times, I've been to Lollapalooza, I've been to Shaky Knees, I've been to you know, random smaller shows and eternal NYE and bunches of different types of shows.

Sunny 5:44

True festi.

Caleb 5:46

But Bonnaroo, the community element, the camping element, the gift-giving culture, the people that attend Bonnaroo are just a different brain.

Vanessa 6:00

Yeah, yeah.

Clark 6:02

And the diversity of that festival is just insane.

Sunny 6:06

It just makes for like a diverse, beautiful book. Yeah, yeah, totally.

Clark 6:11

So it makes it makes so much sense.

Caleb 6:12

People talk about it and it's like, oh yeah, the culture of the community, but no, until you are on the farm and you're kind of seeing it firsthand, it's really hard to describe in words. It's kind of ineffable in that way.

Vanessa 6:24

Where it's it's life-changing.

Caleb 6:26

Yeah, yeah, it definitely. I mean, it's to the point where I've dedicated literally three years of my life at this point to making these books and doing this for the community. I just had such a blast making this book, and then I was really proud of the 2024 one because the 2024 one I feel like really kind of elevated.

Sunny 6:48

Oh, yeah, look at that.

Caleb 6:50

You know, it had like the lineup on the back.

Sunny 6:52

Awesome. What are some things you learned along the way while making these?

Caleb 6:57

So the first one I learned a lot about bookmaking. Yeah. And like the quirks of bookmaking.

Vanessa 7:05

Learning curve of that, yeah.

Caleb 7:07

But the cost of production to print one of these books is $160.

Vanessa 7:14

Oh my god.

Caleb 7:15

Just to just to print it.

Vanessa 7:16

Yeah.

Caleb 7:17

As the base cost. So I was like, I have to charge $200 for this book because it's like $10 to ship it, and the shipping material is like it's two pounds, like it's a heavy 12 by 12 coffee table book. I'm like, I need something a little more accessible. So I scaled it down to this eight by ten. But the thing that was really tricky about that is my book dimension is six by seven, and this doesn't scale right. Oh no. This is a 240-page book, and every single page is filled. And so I had to Photoshop an inch of space on the left and right inside. Oh my god. For this whole book. Oh no, bro. That's I said I never want to do that ever again because that took so long. Like, that's so goofy. I do not want to go through that. And then you see the spine of the book, just a single white line that's not supposed to be white. And I was so mad. Like the amount of crash out I had when this came honestly almost sent me through the moon.

Vanessa 8:23

Like, oh, like the corner of the spine. I see what you're saying.

Caleb 8:26

Because, and it's a design error on my part. And the reason why it happened was because in the printing process, you have to have pages multiple of 12. Oh no. so I I cut a couple pictures out and like rearranged some things, and it was okay. It's not like a ton of content was lost or anything.

Vanessa 8:42

Oh, okay.

Caleb 8:42

But in doing so, it changed the thickness of the book. And so I had designed the spine, and the spine is a separate image. And so when it changed the size of the book, it adjusted the image automatically. And I didn't check it and I didn't get a print before ordering 50 books. And I spent like two and a half grand on books. And what am I supposed to like? I think it looks cool. it's a feature. Yeah, it looks cool. I like it. And now you have the backstory of why it is there.

Vanessa 9:18

It's a silver lining, literally.

Finishing The 2025 Book Under Pressure

Caleb 9:20

So I said, I'm not dealing with that again. I'm ordering one, I'm making sure it's perfect. I'm making any adjustments if it's not, and then I'm sending it off and getting all of them printed.

Sunny 9:30

So brutal. Where are you with the 2025 yearbook?

Caleb 9:34

This is actually like breaking on this podcast literally less than four to eight hours ago. I just finished the 2025 yearbook. Yeah, and so that's that's very exciting.

Vanessa 9:46

I bought one of those, so I'm excited.

Caleb 9:48

So for this, I bought an eight by ten journal. Okay, so that way it's a one-to-one scale. I figured it out. I figured the secret out. You just get the same size book, yeah, and then you don't have to deal with, but then you know what I realized? There's printing margins. Yeah, those printing margins they don't mess around, and sometimes things get cut off. Oh yeah. So, guess what I had to do? I had to add white edges around 150 slot pages pretty much, anyways.

Vanessa 10:21

A lot of trial and error.

Caleb 10:23

Yeah, so I think it's just inevitable. I think I just that's just part of the process.

Vanessa 10:28

How many crash-outs did you have? You should put that as a fun fact.

Caleb 10:32

That is a funny one, actually. And no, I just ordered one proof copy, so I do have time to change things if something is wrong in the final print. But once I approve that for the full printing, then all the books come and I ship them out with the trinkets and stuff.

Vanessa 10:47

We seems like a huge undertaking. And you put so much time and effort into it. That's so awesome. You can really been like 10 months, yeah. Yeah. Did you expect for it to be that like did I we after you did the first one? Did you think you were gonna be doing it every year, or did you think people would buy it? Or I mean No.

Caleb 11:07

No, I mean, I honestly was expecting more my first year, but I did a lot of things wrong my first year. Because the website that I had up for people to pre-order it was just like a Squarespace site that I had set up like the week prior. Yeah, and there was no product photos because I'd never made one before. Right. So it was just like, trust me, bro. Yeah, you know, and I didn't have any social media for people to see anything or like any social proof that I even could make a book or even would fill the entire thing up. You know, I'm just yeah, a guy at a festival with a book. You know what I mean? Like it's not some big organized thing. So I think there really was like maybe eight to ten. I don't remember exactly how many I got, you know, during my first year.

Vanessa 11:54

Yeah. I remember going to the website because we met you, it was 2023. Ed and I were at the VIP lounge. We were sitting on the couch, and Caleb comes up to us and starts talking to us about the yearbook and you know, if you want to we want to sign it and everything. So we signed the yearbook and talked to him for a while. And then it was like the next set, we went to go see, I think we were at 3-6 Mafia at the witch stage, and he came up to our group again, and we're like, hey Caleb, we just met. Yeah. So that's how you that's where you guys met him and signed. Oh, okay, okay, okay. Yeah, yeah. You and Ed were matching. I think you said he liked the picture.

Caleb 12:34

Yeah. Yes. Oh, I think that was at Soffi Tukker.

Vanessa 12:39

Sophie Tucker, that's where it was. Yeah, it was at the wood stage. Yeah. Ed wants to know what you're wearing to Bonnaroo this year so that you guys can coordinate.

Caleb 12:46

Oh, okay. I mean, I got the same fit if you want. if you want to run it back. yeah, the plan for Bonnaroo this year is matching sets always and the wizard fit being like one of my favorite staple pieces.

Clark 13:08

I like the wizard idea because you have your like tome of spells and hell yeah.

Proposal Hidden Inside The Yearbook

Caleb 13:14

That's dope. And it's just it's fun, it's visually, I just like it. You know, like a wizard vibe, you know what I mean?

Sunny 13:20

So doing something like this, I'm sure you end up with some great stories. Is there anything that really stands out?

Caleb 13:27

There was a proposal that happened with the book, which was really cool. So these were my camping neighbors, and they were like, hey, our photographer actually couldn't make it to Bonnaroo. Is there any way you could take some photos of our friends here who are getting engaged? But we don't want to like make it too obvious, you know, that it's happening.

Vanessa 13:48

Yeah.

Caleb 13:49

So I came up with a plan. I was like, okay, what you're gonna do is I'm gonna go and say, hey guys, let's go take photos by the arch and get some pictures. You can come with if you want to.

Sunny 14:01

Yeah.

Caleb 14:02

And what I had Austin do, who's the guy here you see in the book, but for the audio listeners, sorry, audience Austin, I was like, listen, man, I want you to write Will You Marry Me in the back of the book. And when we go to do our group photos, I'm gonna tell everyone else, hey, let's get a couple's shot. Anyone want to volunteer? And they're all gonna push you. Okay. And you got, oh yeah, just go along with it. Okay. And then I'm gonna say, Hey, let me get a couple pictures of you with the book. Click, click, click, click, and I'll hand you the book without her seeing it. Oh, that's cute. And then, you know, you got down in Brooklyn's, and she wrote yes forever in the book. I love that, you know, in response to it. Right. So that was just like a really fun, little, cute special moment.

Vanessa 14:55

That's like the most Bonnaroo thing I've ever heard. Like, of course, you knew that all these people were going to go along with everything you were saying. Like, these were people you just met, right?

Caleb 15:05

Yeah, yeah. I had never met any of these people in my whole life, other than just arriving on the farm and they were next to me where we camped. Yeah, but they took so good care of me because it was my first solo camping festival in 2023. I was by myself in my car, literally, no easy up, no major tent, like a little pulled up pot and no camping essentials that I really needed.

Vanessa 15:31

All the rookie mistakes.

The Bonnaroo I Spy Gift Book

Caleb 15:33

Oh my gosh. Yeah, yeah. Like, I haven't been to festival, so I was like, oh yeah, I get it, but not so you know, I wasn't ready. And they helped me a lot. So I was like, of course, I would love to get some photos of you guys.

Sunny 15:46

Yeah. I do want to make sure we talk about the i Spy books that you've created as well.

Vanessa 15:50

I love the idea of that i Spy book because I hadn't thought about those books since I was like in elementary school.

Caleb 15:56

Something else I didn't know about Bonnaroo was just the pure gift giving and candy culture. Like, I didn't realize how much candy and just like cool stuff I would get from people. So I was like, I have to commemorate and photograph you know, all these awesome trinkets. And you know what's even crazier is all these puzzles are rhyming, also. Yeah, I'll read it out for you.

Vanessa 16:21

I have the book, I bought the iceberg.

Caleb 16:22

Yeah, yeah. So there you go. I spy a purple frog, nine dinosaurs, a winking pill, three bouncing balls, a rabbit, a tiny krill, two squishy bananas, corn, three dice showing six, seven quacking ducks, a fish, and a spider in the sticks. You know what I mean? Like that was really hard to get for multiple, like every single one rhymes. Yeah. But it was a lot of fun. And so now I'm super thrilled that the 2025 is finally done.

Sunny 16:52

Yeah.

Vanessa 16:52

I know you've talked about before, I think on your Instagram how you were a little shy. Maybe the first time you like at Lollapalooza, I think it was.

Caleb 17:03

My first one in 2019 was Coachella. That was my first festival. like my first big festival. And that was where I was still like intimidated, I would say, or just like nervous talking to people at music festivals. Like just going up to a random group of just like beautiful, gorgeous individuals, and just being like, how do I talk to you? Yeah, like how do I be a part of whatever you guys got going on? Because this is like you guys are the vibe. Like what is happening here? Coachella was such a big eye-opener in terms of just the music festival world. And that really was like, I need to just be going to as many of these as I possibly can.

Vanessa 17:46

Like, I can't be doing these.

Caleb 17:48

Yeah.

Vanessa 17:48

Coachella gave me the festival bug too.

Caleb 17:50

Yeah, but I was still intimidated. And all I wanted to do was go talk to people and meet people, but I was still nervous. But I had something like one of these books that I just journal in generally speaking.

Vanessa 18:02

Yeah.

Caleb 18:02

And so what I did was I went up to people with a pen and the book and I said, Do you want to write something in my book? And then I got mixed reactions to that. It was anywhere from what's it for? or like, what do you want me to put? Do you want me to write my name? Do you want me to write a message to you? What is it? And I was mostly asking like security guards and older people, and you know, like just to like build the confidence. And each rejection hurt. Like anytime someone would be like, nah, no, I'm good. It's like, okay, like, whatever. Yeah. And so I eventually got to the point where it's like, okay, I'm just gonna start going and asking whoever I am drawn to that I want to actually ask them. And I started doing that, and someone was like, Oh my god, this is so cute. It's like your yearbook. I was like, like, oh my god, that's genius. Like, oh yeah, I don't think of that. Yeah, that's so smart. So I wrote Coachella yearbook in it, and I started going and asking people, Do you want to sign the Coachella yearbook? And the response was night and day.

Vanessa 19:14

Yeah.

Caleb 19:15

Like the difference between do you want to write something in my book and do you want to sign the Coachella yearbook?

Sunny 19:20

Yeah.

Vanessa 19:21

We've had a similar experience with that too. The difference between that, Sunny, if you want to talk about that.

How To Get More Yeses

Sunny 19:26

Sure. I mean, we do a lot of that at festivals, we're constantly walking up to people and asking if they want to participate in something for Festies. And it's definitely been a lot of trial and error figuring out the best way to approach someone. So we're curious, do you have any advice on what works best?

Caleb 19:46

Yeah, in terms of advice on like getting the best response out of people trying to participate in your bit is I would say you have to do it very poorly a lot first to get comfortable being told no or no thanks or I'm good. Because getting over that fear of the rejection takes muscle, but also try and read their vibe. Like you have to be able to, in a certain way, kind of read their energy and figure out if it's a good time to approach. And that just takes kind of being aware of your surroundings. So I think the thing is numbers. That's what I love about music festivals, is you can try and get someone to play with a bit 500 times in a day. And maybe you get a hundred no's, but maybe you get 400 yeses. You know, so it just takes having the courage to get the no.

Sunny 20:46

That's great advice.

Vanessa 20:47

Yeah. And so are you like no longer scared at all to go up to people? I guess at this point everyone's coming up to you now.

Becoming The Bonnaroo Yearbook Guy

Caleb 20:56

I mean, I have so many stories about that. Yeah, yeah. It has the dynamic has shifted. For sure. Okay, I'm gonna tell you my favorite one. Please. So during Bonnaroo 2025, felt like a little tiny celebrity walking around because I got so many people coming up and being like, oh my god, are you the Bonnaroo yearbook guy? I'm like, Yes, I am. Like, oh, nice to meet you, you know? Yeah. but I've already made two books, right? So Bonnaroo 2025, I was making my third book and I was in contact with I'm gonna call him my number one supporter. You ready for this? He's bought three copies of the 2023 book. He's bought three copies of the 2024 book, and he ordered five copies of the 2025 book. Oh my god. And he bought six shirts and some pants. This is my number one supporter, Tim Myers. Shout out, Tim. Shout out Tim the GOAT. Okay. Tim makes this project possible. Oh, and he bought several of the Bonnaroo I Spy books as well. Anyways, this man's a legend. I love Tim. And one of his sons, Cullen, shout out Cullen also. Cullen brought into Centeru both of these books for me to sign.

Sunny 22:24

Oh. And that was just so cute. I just got a little teary eye.

Caleb 22:30

That was like, oh, I'm gonna cry. Yeah. I'm gonna actually cry. that was probably my favorite one of just like, wow, this is a legacy project of mine. Like, woo, that's cool. Yeah. Are you crying now? Oh, I love that. That was just so cool. Yeah. You know, to have that experience. And then another cool one, literally later that same day, there was like a group of these Australian ladies, and they're like, Are you the Bonnaroo Yearbook guy And I would bring it. I was like, Yeah, it's me. And they're like, No way, we found you! And like it was these three ladies from Australia who had flown in just for Bonnaroo, having this whole like freakout moment overseeing me. I'm like, how do you know me? Like, like, is this like I don't know. Anyway, so that was just like that's crazy. There's people in other countries like that know about this project.

Sunny 23:33

Yeah, it's almost a mission for people to find you. Vanessa and Ed, you know, they went in there with the goal of tracking you down and they found you pretty much right away.

Caleb 23:41

Yeah, someone said they made it their whole goal to find me for Rue 2025. And I had that on like a little 360 video that I captured as I was getting signatures. She's like, dude, I literally, this was my entire 2025 goal was to like sign the yearbook. Like, oh my god, I can't believe it.

Vanessa 23:59

We found you real quick too. And it was, you know, we only had one day. We had one day, yeah.

Caleb 24:03

I mean, we got there as early as we could Tuesday. Oh, there y'all are. There you are. Yep.

Okeechobee Invite

Sunny 24:10

For the listeners, Vanessa put our sticker in the Bonnaroo yearbook. Yeah. That's it. I would like to pivot to Okeechobee. Sure, yeah. Which is coming up in mid-March in Florida. And I have to admit, when I saw your post that you'd been asked to do the yearbook there, I was a little jealous. Obviously, I was so happy for you. But the timing was wild because it was literally like a day after we had submitted our media application. And when you shared your post, I sent it to Clark and Vanessa, and I was just like, guys, he did it. He got in. So please tell us about that. How did how did that all come together?

Caleb 24:54

Yeah, sure. I put out a story on my Instagram, and I was like, hey, listen, I want to do this yearbook project more. I want to bring it to more festivals. If you know someone or are that person that can help me do this in a bigger capacity at any festival, hit my line, basically. And someone hit me up. Shout out Roots. She hit me up on Instagram, was like, hey, I'm the creative director for Oki and Hula. And I love your project. And I think honestly, we could make this happen for Okeechobee.

Vanessa 25:35

And I was like, uh, okay.

Caleb 25:40

And so she sent me an email, and I basically sent them a pitch of what it is that I'd want to do and what I would need. And so I sent it to them, and I honestly I pitched them the iSpy book. The the iSPY book is what I wanted to do for Okeechobee. But they were like, Yeah, we love the iSpy project, but could you bring the yearbook to? I was like, I could. And they're like, what do you need to make that happen? I was like, well, honestly, two tickets, a camping pass, because I want my girlfriend to be able to come with me, and I want to be able to bring a cart inside the festival. That's a non-negotiable. If I can't bring a cart, I don't want to do it. And they said, All right. But Okeechobee, I'm treating as like, this is my first time getting invited by festival organizers to do this project. But it also comes with a contract, and there's like, right, I can't have profanity in it. I can't have politics in it. So I have to manage. Am I going to tell people ahead of time every single time someone signs something? Like, hey, no peas, no profanity politics or paraphernalia, you know? Or do I have to just sticker things up or edit them out and post? Like, I have a whole new set of logistics. I had to buy insurance because I have a cart and it's only tricks that it's on me.

Vanessa 27:09

Yeah.

Caleb 27:09

They also want me to get it done in four months, which is less than half the time both previous books have taken. So that's a huge like ooh.

Vanessa 27:20

Right. Yeah.

Caleb 27:21

But I have the book already ready to go for Okeechobee. So that I am excited for. It's a whole new field now being officially tied into Okeechobee as a festival versus just being at Bonnaroo and doing this on my own.

Vanessa 27:35

Right. It's a different vibe, I feel like. And are you bringing more people in to help you with it, or is it still just a one-man?

Caleb 27:42

It's a one-man thing. And the reason is is because when I did my first one, I tried to outsource the scanning of the book. And being a professional photographer, I'm like, I can literally take better photos of each page individually, and the quality is so much better and nicer and consistent. Then I would either have to pay for or get the help of a designer if I wanted some help with that. But then that requires back and forth with a designer, which is not faster than me just doing it necessarily. Yeah. I refuse to use any AI in any of the things. So I can't just AI outsource any of the, you know, tasks. Ultimately, as like maybe crazy as it sounds, I feel like I'm really the only guy that can do it. So it's like I kind of have to be the one to just make it happen in that time frame. So it'll just be a lot of concentrated man hours in a very short period of time. Because that's all it is. It's just it everything I do with the book is just time consuming. Right. Like none of it's outside of my scope of what I'm capable of. It just takes a lot of hours to do it while trying to also be alive and eat and bathe and deal with social dynamics and living with new housemates and uh three cats and a lizard and frogs. Three cats. So it's like, yeah. And all the litter boxes need to be, you know, cleaned out and the dishes need to be done.

Vanessa 29:08

And the well, we believe in you. We know you can do it.

Caleb 29:12

Thank you very much. Thank you very much.

Sunny 29:13

Sorry guys, I can't clean the litter box this week. I got back on the book.

Caleb 29:17

I'm clocked in on the books. Yeah. Yeah. good excuse, right? Yeah.

Sunny 29:28

Well, we don't want to keep you too much longer, but we do have two quick segments left. First, we'd love to hear your ultimate festival tip.

Caleb 29:36

Ooh, don't be afraid to go out on your own.

Vanessa 29:40

Okay.

Caleb 29:41

It can be really scary when you're doing it at first. And that's how I felt when I first started going to music festivals, just being so intimidated by all this cool, amazing stuff going on around you, and just feeling like you want to stay in whatever spot is the safest, and you don't want to get lost, or you don't want to miss anything, or you don't want to be separated from your crew. Uh, it's okay. And some of my favorite festival memories have been just being off on my own, finding some random little side quest to going on and just committing to the bit, you know, someone else's bit that wasn't my own. And music festivals are just such a great place to find new friends or to have those participatory moments with other people in a shared space. Because in the real world, it's really hard to do that. Like you're not at the grocery store going, Oh my god, you're so adorable! It's amazing. Like, oh, do you want to you know, like if you want to keep it, you know, you can do that, someone calls festivals, but it's out of context, you're right, you know, whereas festivals like it makes sense to do that. So lean into that.

Vanessa 30:48

Great tip. Okay, our last thing is festies. We thought it would be a fun idea to create our own dream festies festival lineup. We actually have two. One for artists that are still living and one for artists that have passed on. So we ask all of our guests to contribute one dream guest for both lineups.

Caleb 31:12

Off the dome, the first one on my dream lineup, like if they had a headlining show, is Flume. Flume with a mega budget. That's kind of what got me into EDM. And then Dead, maybe a Vichy or Mac Miller. Mac Miller, honestly, wouldn't even be up there. but yeah. Yeah, RP. But yeah, probably those.

Vanessa 31:38

All right. Well, just thank you so much for coming on. This has been so fun. I could talk about this forever.

Caleb 31:44

I could talk about Bonnaroo forever. Me too. There's so much to talk about. Yeah, there's a million stories.

Sunny 31:48

When we first met Caleb, was Festies even a thing yet? No, not even an idea? No. No, okay. Wow, yeah.

Where To Find Caleb And Final Goodbye

Caleb 31:54

Crazy, right? Yeah, so crazy. So crazy. If you would like to check out any of my projects, you can go to Bonnaroo yearbook.com or you can check me out. I'm mainly active on Instagram at Bonnaroo. I'm also on TikTok, but honestly, I've been slacking on TikTok a little bit. More active on Instagram. Just like, anyways, I hope you guys have enjoyed. Thank you so much. And I'll see you at Rue and Okatobi.

Vanessa 32:17

Thank you so much, Caleb. You guys have a good one.

Caleb 32:20

Pleasure.

Vanessa 32:20

Enjoy the rest of your day.

Caleb 32:22

You as well.

Sunny 32:24

Bye.

Vanessa 32:26

All right, Festies. We hope you enjoyed that episode with Caleb from the Bonnaroo yearbook. Please share this episode with all your friends. Follow us on Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube at Festies Podcast. And we'll catch you in the next one. Bye. Bye.

Clark 32:50

Festival.