Some of you may have already picked up on the extra buzz surrounding the Wild Goose camp lately.  As anticipation builds for this summer’s 2nd annual Wild Good Festival at Shakori Hills in North Carolina, we’ve also been hard at work prepping for a new project that we’d like to share with you on Monday, May 21st. There’s also good news on the coming festival (just five weeks away!).... Read more

After 9 Dove Awards and 22 nominations, the David Crowder Band released its final album, Give Us Rest, earlier this year. Their last endeavor was the grand finale to their career together, earning them a number two spot on Billboard’s Top 200 and selling 50,000 units in just one week. Since then, David Crowder has formed a new music collective known simply as “Crowder.” You can be one of the first to catch this new arrangement of Crowder-music featuring the... Read more

  Wild Goose 2012 is Pleased To Welcome Gungor Gungor is a band that can’t be easily labeled with a single genre like “pop” or “folk.” They’ve won multiple Grammy nominations for their 2010 album, Beautiful Things, and have since released a concept album that “celebrates the beauty of life even in the midst of darkness and pain.” This album, Gungor’s website declares, explores a wide emotional and musical gamut from sweeping string lines and soaring, falsetto vocal melodies to... Read more

This Wednesday, the Wild Goose team and friends would like to invite you to a night of music and conversation at the Full Steam Brewery in Durham. The evening will feature performances by Pinkerton’s Raid with special guest Alex Wilkins, while enjoying local food truck phenom Piepushers and local ice cream from The Parlour. Festivities start at 7:00 p.m. The event is free and open to all, but we do ask that you quickly provide an RSVP by visiting this... Read more

DAVID CROWDER, GUNGOR, PHYLLIS TICKLE, LAUREN WINNER, FRANK SCHAEFFER AND NAOMI SHELTON AND THE GOSPEL QUEENS AMONG OTHERS JOIN THE LINEUP GATHERING AT SHAKORI HILLS IN SIX WEEKS. To celebrate this announcements, we have reverted ticket prices back to the early bird price of $119 until this Wednesday, May 9th, at midnight. * * * From June 21-24, we invite you to Wild Goose 2012 to participate in our journey of exile and return. Our experience this year will draw... Read more

In 2009, my family and I took our first trip to Greenbelt. We didn’t just *go* to Greenbelt, we DID GREENBELT. A group of friends came along and joined us as we modeled our unique articulations of community and playful collaboration. Before we went, the festival had seemed to us to be a bit enigmatic, shrouded ‘neath an imaginary cloud of the “over the pond” aloofness, or something. With all accommodations coordinated, we made the trek and found ourselves surrounded... Read more

Beginnings can be messy – for one thing, it can be difficult to describe something until it has been fully formed.  For another, if you’re building a festival whose identity depends on experimentation, questioning, and the imaginative creation of something new, you might be reluctant to close down the options of what it could look like. With that in mind, and with two months to go, here’s some thoughts on what might happen at Wild Goose 2012. Wild Goose is... Read more

Making Art at the Wild Goose Festival is one of those exciting “intersections” people are always talking about. It’s not just a place for artists or those who consider themselves artistic. It’s a sacred space where we share and explore the ways that making art has impacted, informed and grown out of our human needs and spiritual aspirations. When you drop in at our planned sessions you’ll hear artists of various mediums and materials talk about the way that making... Read more

Notable author and spiritual thinker, Phyllis Tickle, speaks to Travis Reed and Work of the People at last year’s Wild Goose Festival. Phyllis will be returning to Wild Goose 2012. Get your tickets to join us here. Read more

Guest post by Vadim and Emily Kochetkov Hospitality, good will, and fun—these are a few of the words that capture our experience at last year’s Wild Goose Festival. As leaders of one of the volunteer crews, our memories of that week in June are probably a little different than those of most festival-goers. We walked (and frequently ran) miles each day from the ticket booth to the Rangers headquarters to the hospitality tent to the family campground, and all points... Read more