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| - For an inaugural festival, Life is Beautiful outdid themselves. They really transformed downtown Las Vegas into something spectacular filled with food, music, art, and learning. For a first year event it was really well-organized.
The VIP experience was worth it as the Zappos sponsored Recharge Retreat including all complimentary cocktails, massages, braid bar, candy bar, and more. The retreat stayed open throughout which was great for getting drinks and VOSS bottled water on a hot day.
You don't get the high quality of food at music festivals like the kinds we saw at LIB. Most dishes at the Culinary VIllage were $10/plate and were from some of the biggest names such as Nobu Las Vegas and Tom Colicchio's 'wichcraft.
The layout was massive with multiple stages and a scale that I heard was even greater than Coachella but with a less crowds. It made for a lot of walking but there was so much to see that even going from 12pm to 11:30pm, we still weren't able to see everything the festival had to offer.
Imagine Dragons put on a great homecoming performance of "Radioactive" with Cirque du Soleil cast members performing alongside the Las Vegas based band in what they exclaimed was the true Vegas style of "doing it big."
Dawes put on one of the better performances of the day and they are definitely a band to keep your eye out for. They sounded amazing!
My only complaint was the taxi line at the end of the night which could have been handled much more smoothly if they had more staff. The local police officers did the best they could with the masses but there just weren't enough taxis.
But, since the whole thing was an almost flawless experience, I left repeating what many of the artists echoed throughout the night: "life is beautiful!"
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