Moon Crush returns to Miramar Beach for the 5th installment of Topeka Live’s music vacations. Moon Crush, Blue Moon takes place over the Labor Day Weekend and will feature Ben Rector, NEEDTOBREATHE, Switchfoot, Mat Kearney, Johnnyswim, and more. Single-day passes are on sale now at topeka.live....
After a hellish time at a music festival six years ago, PJ Pablo swore he’d never go to another. The experience of standing shoulder-to-shoulder in a crowd for hours, unable to go to the bathroom without losing his spot; the people near him passing out; the long time it took to exit, including an uncomfortable walk over a bridge in a mob of people....
The idea behind music vacations was to create a low-key retreat at the beach, amid abundant housing options. Guests had the ability to rent condos or nearby homes, spend the day on Miramar Beach, then walk over to the event entrance gates for music which started in late afternoon. The setup is a single stage, with three or four acts playing each night....
“We’re using the word ‘vacation’ and not ‘festival’ because ‘festival’ has come to mean a bunch of stages, bands all day, thousands of people in a field,” Andy Levine, who founded Topeka in 2020, explains. “We want people to know this is a vacation. You find the group you want to be with — those people you’ve missed so much in the last year...
