Going to college is a stressful ordeal for incoming freshmen. There’s the process of applying, which has its own hurdles, then the campus orientation, which leaves students like putty under the barrage of information, and lest we forget, the moving into dorms for the first time.
At the University of Colorado in Boulder, there’s also a simple gesture that makes the ordeal almost worth it, the annual . The highlight of these festivities is the annual concert on CU-Boulder’s Farrand Field the Saturday before classes start.
This year brought Philadelphia-based headliner and MTV darlings to help celebrate the last weekend before classes begin on Monday, along with openers Pnuma Trio, XV and Air Dubai.
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is a freelance photographer and a regular Reverb contributor. He hails from the mountains of Telluride, but he’s currently studying at the University of Colorado at Boulder.




