Bruce Newman, folk singer/songwriter, host of WEVL’s Folk Song Fiesta, and frequent friend of Music Video Monday, is also a burner. Every year he makes a pilgrimage to Burning Man, the week-long art and music festival held in a remote desert. Around 80,000 people gather on a dry lake bed outside Gerlach, Nevada, during Labor Day week to build Black Rock City. There, burners create giant art installations, dance to some of the biggest names in electronic music, and generally reclaim the freedom they don’t have in the mundane world.
Newman wrote one of his first songs about his time spent in Black Rock City, and collected images and videos of the wild days and nights on the playa over the years. Edited by Laura Jean Hocking, and containing a few shots I took on my one trip to Black Rock, here’s “Burning Man”!
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