Funshine Music Festival

Way fun time!! and the amuzement park rides were added free fun! We will go again next year and take lawn chairs with us to set on :-)

It was awesome getting to ride rides and having so much fair food available. And I've wanted to see the Smashing Pumpkins for about 15 years now, so that was awesome! And it wasn't packed either, I got right up front for the concert and never waited more than 5 minutes for a ride. I want to go again next year!

Ted Nuggent played some good music. REO was loud and flashy, but I think STYX rocked the joint. They really played the old favorites with passion. I think STYX was the best. Another note: I was disappointed that we were told there is NO tailgaiting allowed. We were harrassed about 10 times. We weren't grilling, just drinking and chilling. We were told we need to go inside. (They just wanted us to spend our money at the vendors.) We all banded together (with other tailgaiters) and stayed outside until the main show. Met some good people. Tailgating is essential for a concert, it's half the fun.

I went soley to see cheap trick at the festival, they played in the expo hall, only played for an hour but man what an amazing show. Those men always deliver a great performance, & no matter what other band I see, there is no doubt that Mr. Robin Zander is the best live singer of all.

I went to see Train. They were WONDERFUL as usual. I can't say enough on them. The festival itself was...meh. It's your average carnival. Average bordering on lower end. They had a petting zoo, which at first was neat, until you see the giraffe in a tiny pen with hardly any room to move around! So that made this review difficult. If I were to rate Train? It'd have been 5 stars no doubt. But since I'm reviewing the whole event? I had to knock down a few stars.

Funshine didn't explain that the bands I bought the tickets to see were going to be on other stages outside the amphitheater. My friends and I had no interest in seeing train and phill Phillips and therefore we passed on the entire event and saw an unbelievable free concert by the hip abduction in pass a grille beach for beach goes pops festival instead. 150.00 was spent on these tickets that should have gone to something else.