Costa Rica’s 2016 Envision Festival has announced its lineup featuring headliners such as Shpongle, Beats Antique and Elephant Revival. The festival will take place February 25 to 28, 2016, in Uvita.
The festival combines music, yoga and workshops over a period of days, making it a sort of art and lifestyle festival rather than just a music fest. The musical acts for this year’s lineup span nine different countries worldwide. Random Rab will be performing at next year’s Envision Festival for the sixth time.
For the yoga portion of the festival, there will be appearances by wellness expert David Wolfe and yoga teacher/inspirational speaker Rachel Brathen, among others. According to press for the festival, they want to encourage “creating a festival that represents the harmonious blending of many different cultures,” making it a rather unique festival.
Possibly the most varied of these sections is for workshops, which features herbalist 7 Song, architect of the New Paradigm Astrology Cooperative Kaypacha and Stephen Brooks, who co-founded Envision Festival and is known as a “resident permaculture expert.”
The other co-founder of the festival, Matt Siegel, says:
I believe that by gathering in community out in nature, we create a rare opportunity for individuals to observe their value systems and inherent human motivations from a new or alternative perspective that is free of social conditioning. At a successful event, participants capture this moment and create from it a forever lasting positive impression.
The festival is expanding to include Education Retreats as well, which occur outside the four days of the festival. The name of the first retreat is Embody, and it takes place February 19 to 24 in Uvita, Costa Rica. This would allow travelers to attend Embody then attend the festival when it ends. There are still 4-day passes available for the 2016 festival on the Envision website. For the full lineup, see the poster and see the music lineup listing below.
Envision Festival 2016 Music Lineup
Shpongle (DJ set)
Beats Antique (live)
M.A.N.D.Y.
Elephant Revival
Akae Beka (a.k.a. Midnite)
Random Rab
Bedouin
Grouch
Spoonbill
Dimond Saints
AN-TEN-NAE
Andrelien
The Human Experience
Stephan Jacobs
Dirtwire
Patterns
Sonámbulo
Lee Reynolds
Tara Brooks
Atish
Hedflux
Bonnie & Bridget
Santos Y Zurdo
Melissa O
Ivan Cespedes
Nominus
Clozee
Digital Rust
Beat Fatigue
ATYYA
Medium Troy
Late Night Radio
Sidecar Tommy
Lafa Taylor
Calavera Y La Canalla
El Combo Style
Dakini
Human
Cloudchord
Templo
Cat’s Pajamas
Justin Marchacos
Zach Walker
Griff
Matt Haze
Anchor Hill
Cualli
Faceblind
Dragonfly
Wu Wei
Brian Hartman
Messenger of Secrets
Yarrohs
Sam Klass
Dr. Suits