TETON VILLAGE, Wyo. — Saturday was a big day at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort.
After a morning celebrating homegrown Olympic gold medalist Breezy Johnson, skiers stuck around after après for Rendezvous Music Festival. Buckrail photographer Nick Sulzer was in the crowd to see it all go down.
DJ Blake Horstmann kicked off the music Saturday evening, followed by jam-band favorites Umphrey’s McGee.
This was the first year the festival has charged admission, and the first time events were consolidated into one night and location; in years past, the event was a free end-of-season gathering, with one night of music on Jackson’s Town Square and a second free night in Teton Village.
After Umphrey’s wrapped up its performance, the Flaming Lips brought a suite of inflatable, avant-garde decor to the stage, including towering pink robots, dancing green aliens, gigantic latex balloons that bounced into the crowd, and more.
Frontman Wayne Coyne led the band through its decades of psych-rock hits including “Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Part 1,” “Do You Realize??” and “She Don’t Use Jelly.”
They even tossed in a blistering cover of Black Sabbath’s “War Pigs.”
Until next year, Rendezvous Music Fest!
