TomFest= Dirt+Music+Awesome

TomFest: 4 days, 4 stages and over 120 bands! ‘Founded in 1995, TomFest began as an alternative to other music festivals to provide an outlet for Christian indie and alternative bands and their fans to have the freedom to Worship Christ without boundaries. Through the years TomFest has given stage time to genres and bands that other fests would barely acknowledge and an outlet for expression of faith. Over the past decade we've had everything from hardcore and metal to zydeco and folk. We here at TomFest strive to give you, the music lover, a place to express yourself, worship, commune with like-minded people and have the opportunity to see dozens of bands in a safe, familiar environment.’

That is the mission and the jest of what TomFest is about. For us it was a peek into our future while tapping into our past and fully enjoying our present. TomFest brought some of our most favorite things together in one place: Family, friends, fellowship, camping, BBQ, art, worship, music, amazing bands, dirt, ministry, vision, workshops, God’s word, and the list could go on. Some of the bands that impacted us the most were as follows: Sleeping Giant, For Today, White Collar Sideshow, the Neverclaim, Blessed by a Broken Heart, and a Plea for Purging just to name a few. The members - and especially leaders - of these bands are taking radical steps to reach the lost and hurting, and to encourage others to reach out and live their lives with purpose. The words they sing, speak or scream from stage still resonate in our hearts and minds motivating us to pursue our goals and to live our lives with passion. We believe that these bands are producing more than just sounds in the air but that they are releasing power and vision to our generation. The style of music that these bands produce is far from what most people consider enjoyable but it is the heart behind the music that we love the most; just look at some of the photos from their sets. The people in the crowd aren’t raising their hands and falling to their knees because of how cool the band is, they are encountering God in a mighty and personal way, captivated and completely abandoned.

This is where my brother would say, “Go team God!”

Needless to say we were blessed to not only attend this event, but to be apart of because the leader of ‘the Revolution’ played a key role in the production of TomFest (thanks Sasha) and we got to join in on the fun because she is awesome.