Bonnaroo Day 3 – Rock the Grill….unplugged

Day 3 at Bonnaroo was the best yet! Not only great music like Jack Johnson and Pearl Jam, but we had our first Rock the Grill…unplugged with Farm Aid’s HOMEGROWN.

What is Rock the Grill, I hear you ask? Well, we here at Sustainable Table think that music and food are intricately related. You have your choice of local food and music, or you can choose industrial, mass produced food and music. And which is better? The local, obviously. What we’d like to see is the word sustainable or socially responsible also added in the descriptions about music and musicians, and we believe that the folks here at Bonnaroo are living up to that – this festival is massive, long, hot and humid, and it might be the most efficiently-run sustainable operation I’ve ever been a part of. (More on that in an upcoming blog post….)

Music and food also place us. Music ties us to a memory where food oftentimes ties us to a place. When I hear The Who, I think of being a teenager and traveling the country to see the band. I think of all the great people I met and the community I created around the music. When I think of certain foods, peaches, for example, I think of the peach tree in the backyard of my parent’s house. I think of summer and sunshine. Both food and music root us in our lives.

Above is an excerpt from our latest account of our time at Bonnaroo – find out what we did, and how food and music are closely related on our Sustainable Table tour journal.