06/15/2025
🎤💥🚨 SOUND THE ALARM, RING THE BELL, TEXT YOUR EX — WHATEVER IT TAKES 🚨💥🎤
The Dawn of Thrive Music Festival is COMING for YOUR BUTT!
📍 Downtown Waterloo, IL
📅 Saturday, June 21, 2025
🎟️ FREE. F-R-E-E. As in, zero dollars. As in, no excuses.
This ain’t just a festival. This is a full-blown, good-vibes-only, toe-tappin’, heart-healin’, soul-rebootin’ mental health power party 💚
And you, YES YOU, are officially invited to join the madness.
☕ Coffee & Cars – 7:30am–9:00am
Start your day with a hot cup of joe and more horsepower than a cowboy rodeo. Bonus points if you show up in a bathrobe. (Please don’t.)
🎶 MUSIC LINEUP THAT SLAPS HARDER THAN A SCREEN DOOR IN A TORNADO:
🎤 2:15–3:15pm – Raelynn Alyse
Sweet voice, big sparkle, certified star energy. She’ll steal your heart and give it back healthier.
🎤 3:30–5:30pm – Unhinged
Waterloo’s most gloriously chaotic band. No hinges, no rules, just straight-up sonic mayhem.
🎤 6:00–8:00pm – Dazed N Confused STL
Classic rock so smooth it’ll make your mullet grow back. Air guitars encouraged.
🎤 8:30–11:30pm – Ian Ferguson
A musical wizard. A country music sorcerer. The grand finale. Prepare your ears for lift-off.
🍔 Plus: Food vendors.
🎨 Craft vendors.
💚 Community resources.
👯♀️ Possibly a conga line.
🔥 Definitely a good cause: Su***de prevention and better mental health for all.
💥 COME FOR THE MUSIC. STAY FOR THE MISSION. LEAVE FEELING AWESOME. 💥
Bring your mom, your weird uncle, your neighbor Gary, that one friend who’s always late — JUST GET HERE.
We promise good times, great tunes, and maybe a few emotional breakthroughs in between sets. Let’s turn Downtown Waterloo into the loudest, kindest, most uplifting place on Earth (or at least Illinois).
🎸🎤💚 See you there or prepare to be judged by a sassy raccoon in your dreams 💚🎤🎸
***dePrevention
