Gem & Jam Festival is able to kick off its fifteenth annual version, happening from Friday, February 3 – Sunday, February 5, 2023, in Tucson, Arizona on the Pima County Fairgrounds.
The competition not too long ago introduced new artist additions together with a particular Lightcode set from LSDREAM, Grateful Useless/Speaking Heads hybrid tribute band Speaking Useless, Michael Travis and Aaron Johnson’s nascent duo Snakes & Stars, Denver trip-hop live-electronic pair Since JulEYE, and a large number of proficient native acts.
The brand new artist additions be a part of headliners The String Cheese Incident, LSDREAM, The Floozies, and Emancipator, with assist from The Motet, Dirtwire, Ott, SoDown, The Funk Hunters, Mark Farina, and Marvel Years. Acts making their Gem & Jam competition debuts embody Justin Martin, Ayla Nereo, Haywyre, Aqueous, EAZYBAKED, Justin Jay, The Nth Energy, Poranguí, and Ravenscoon.
Along with the wide range of musical acts, the music and humanities competition will function a plethora of visible and efficiency artwork, therapeutic and wellness sanctuaries, workshops, 40+ market distributors, and naturally, gem and mineral choices.
Listed beneath are Gem & Jam programming highlights. Each weekend and single-day passes are on sale at https://gemandjamfestival.com/.
WIN ARTIST REWARDS VIA FAN-LOYALTY APP UNITEA
Gem & Jam partnered with music loyalty model Unitea to host the competition app, the place followers can construct their very own schedules, create content material with a customized Gem & Jam filter, join with fellow attendees in Crew Chats, and interact with competition performers to earn Karma factors that may be cashed in for unique rewards. Obtain the Unitea app and begin streaming music to win prizes like side-stage viewing and signed merch bundles. Be taught extra about Unitea rewards at Gem & Jam here.
ECO-FRIENDLY OPTIONS WITH GREEN DISCO
Gem & Jam is fostering a relationship with environmental competition group Inexperienced Disco to enhance its environmental footprint and provides attendees the chance to have an eco-friendly competition expertise. Inexperienced Disco’s Eco-Band is an non-obligatory ticket add-on that helps nonprofits in Tucson, offsets measurable quantities of carbon, and helps environmental knowledge assortment efforts. Made out of 100% hemp, the $20 wristband permits competition goers to do their half in conserving the atmosphere and offers entry to unique perks on-site. The Eco-Band could be bought at checkout or as an add-on via our official ticketing web page to be picked up on the field workplace.
HEALING/WELLNESS
The Topaz Therapeutic Sanctuary will host quite a lot of non secular therapeutic workshops, equivalent to different drugs lessons (Auricular Acupuncture), yoga remedy lessons (Meridian Yoga remedy and Science of Self: Yoga and Acupressure), tarot lessons (Tarot Intuitive), therapeutic massage workshops, Reiki and breathwork lessons, and extra. Visitors can even take a look at Crystal Singing Bowl Sound Tub, the place they will immerse themselves within the therapeutic frequencies of crystalline sound.
The Amethyst Stage will host workshops that assist nurture inventive self-expression and reflection, with packages specializing in actions like yoga lessons (Embodied Gradual Move: Yoga & DJ Set), a sensory and intercourse workshop with Jellywink proprietor and intercourse coach and Erin Voss (Intercourse & Neurodivergence), pure herbs workshop (City Soul: Herbalism inside Metropolis Limits), psychedelics and mushrooms lesson (Mushroom Nootropics & Aphrodisiacs: A Deeper Extra Titillating Look into Our Connectedness) and a hurt discount workshop (The New Abolitionists – Hurt Discount, Drug Coverage, and the Struggle for Human Liberty).
Drumming Sounds will host a sacred fire for deep group improvement, friendship, transformation, and enjoyable. It should provide drum circles, drum lessons, Mayan astrology, meditation, sound baths, and extra. The Drumming Sounds space is a drug and alcohol-free zone for people who wish to celebration with a transparent intention.
STARSEED RAINBOW FAMILY CIRCUS
This stage options The Riley Rainbow Household Circus, a spellbinding present that entertains audiences throughout the nation with an old-style circus arts efficiency blended with a brand new paradigm of household life. The household zone incorporates occasions, performers, audio system, workshop suppliers, individuals, and faces of the longer term. Visitors may additionally study all issues permaculture at their Earth Guardians sales space, or chill out within the toddler zone.
PERFORMANCE / VISUAL ART
Performers embody clowns, stilters, stilt acrobats, hearth dancers, aerial artists, hip-hop dancers, LED hula hoopers and movement artists! The Cirque Roots crew, the Tucson-based, female-operated crew, and longtime Gem & Jam vets, are returning as soon as once more to the competition with their combine of fireplace and acrobatics. The competition can be welcoming again the Phoenix-based Sacred Gs, a avenue arts collective devoted to fusing hip-hop dance, spirit-inspired motion, and spoken phrase. Further performers embody touring duo Stump Mandolin Clowns, aerialist Nina OG, acrobatic duo Acro Legs, and extra. Gem and Jam can even function quite a lot of proficient stay painters all through the weekend.
FOOD VENDORS
Gem & Jam will provide attendees quite a lot of meals and beverage choices together with loads of vegan-friendly choices and sustainable components. Spanning an enormous spectrum of eating choices, Gem & Jam will host high-end soften store The Grilled Cheese Incident, The Smokin Hen Home for all BBQ cravings, 100% plant-based Not Cho Fish Taco, Flagstaff locally-owned Sq. Root, Polish dumpling spot Pierogi Posse, and extra. Followers can seize some espresso to refuel at Alchemy Espresso Roasters and Java A Gogo.
CRAFT VENDORS
Along with all the workshop choices, Gem & Jam will as soon as once more provide quite a lot of craft distributors for the family-friendly occasion. Starting from bohemian clothes gives to creatively constructed recycled crafts, Gem & Jam will provide a various array of merchandise for attendees to discover. Clothes distributors embody future-retro creations from Bear Fruit Designs, hand-dyed competition clothes from Marybgoround and Eli’s Dyes, and one-of-a-kind up-cycled vogue from I’m Crowning. Uniquely-crafted trinkets and items could be bought from vintage watch welders Moon Glory Gears, pendants and jewellery from The Giving Pendant and Third Eye Pinecones, in addition to high-quality handcrafted leather-based items from El Gato Montés.
