Photos by: Megan Dirksen

There's a reason we keep coming back to ARISE Music Festival year after year. Beyond the incredible music, art, and yoga, the quality of the people who attend the event cannot go underreported. Families, couples, sonic nomads, and more collect for all the right reasons the first weekend in August at Sunrise Ranch in Loveland, Colorado to laugh, smile, stretch, bend, and dance. We captured that ephemeral spirit that concentrates itself in the foothills of northern Colorado each summer in this stunning slideshow. Hope you'll join us again next year.