{"id":513,"date":"2010-09-06T18:52:39","date_gmt":"2010-09-06T10:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mdnphoto.com\/blog\/?p=513"},"modified":"2010-09-06T18:52:39","modified_gmt":"2010-09-06T10:52:39","slug":"golden-beach-music-festival-taking-to-the-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/2010\/09\/06\/golden-beach-music-festival-taking-to-the-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden Beach Music Festival: Taking to the Trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/20100904_gloden_beach_chinese_in_trees006.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-531\" title=\"Curious Music Fans Take to the Trees at the Golden Beach Music Festival\" src=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/20100904_gloden_beach_chinese_in_trees006.jpg\" alt=\"Curious Music Fans Take to the Trees at the Golden Beach Music Festival\" width=\"950\" height=\"633\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"paragraph\">\n<p>I just returned from the Golden Beach Music Festival in Qingdao. The festival is very unique out of the many popping up all over China &#8211; it takes place right on a beach so that concertgoers can enjoy the sand beneath their feet and dive into the ocean to cool off. Although there were only a few thousand people on hand every day, everything was well organized and both the Subs and Demerit stole the weekend with excellent performances. However, I was most taken by the intrepid music fans and curious passersby who couldn&#8217;t afford the ticket price and instead climbed trees just outside the fencing to catch a glimpse of the stage. Thus spawned this symbiotic series of man and tree.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/20100905_gloden_beach_chinese_in_trees009.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/20100905_gloden_beach_chinese_in_trees009.jpg\" alt=\"Curious Music Fans Take to the Trees at the Golden Beach Music Festival\" title=\"Curious Music Fans Take to the Trees at the Golden Beach Music Festival\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"aligntriplel size-full wp-image-529\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/20100905_gloden_beach_chinese_in_trees008.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/20100905_gloden_beach_chinese_in_trees008.jpg\" alt=\"Curious Music Fans Take to the Trees at the Golden Beach Music Festival\" title=\"Curious Music Fans Take to the Trees at the Golden Beach Music Festivaln_beach_chinese_in_trees008\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"aligntriplec size-full wp-image-520\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/20100905_gloden_beach_chinese_in_trees007.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/20100905_gloden_beach_chinese_in_trees007.jpg\" alt=\"Curious Music Fans Take to the Trees at the Golden Beach Music Festival\" title=\"Curious Music Fans Take to the Trees at the Golden Beach Music Festival\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"aligntripler size-full wp-image-519\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/20100904_gloden_beach_chinese_in_trees005.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/20100904_gloden_beach_chinese_in_trees005.jpg\" alt=\"Curious Music Fans Take to the Trees at the Golden Beach Music Festival\" title=\"Curious Music Fans Take to the Trees at the Golden Beach Music Festival\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"aligntriplel size-full wp-image-518\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/20100904_gloden_beach_chinese_in_trees004.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/20100904_gloden_beach_chinese_in_trees004.jpg\" alt=\"Curious Music Fans Take to the Trees at the Golden Beach Music Festival\" title=\"Curious Music Fans Take to the Trees at the Golden Beach Music Festival\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"aligntriplec size-full wp-image-517\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/20100904_gloden_beach_chinese_in_trees003.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/20100904_gloden_beach_chinese_in_trees003.jpg\" alt=\"Curious Music Fans Take to the Trees at the Golden Beach Music Festival\" title=\"Curious Music Fans Take to the Trees at the Golden Beach Music Festival\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"aligntripler size-full wp-image-516\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/20100904_gloden_beach_chinese_in_trees002.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/20100904_gloden_beach_chinese_in_trees002.jpg\" alt=\"Curious Music Fans Take to the Trees at the Golden Beach Music Festival\" title=\"Curious Music Fans Take to the Trees at the Golden Beach Music Festival\" width=\"460\" height=\"307\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-515\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/20100904_gloden_beach_chinese_in_trees001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/20100904_gloden_beach_chinese_in_trees001.jpg\" alt=\"Curious Music Fans Take to the Trees at the Golden Beach Music Festival\" title=\"Curious Music Fans Take to the Trees at the Golden Beach Music Festival\" width=\"460\" height=\"307\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-514\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just returned from the Golden Beach Music Festival in Qingdao. The festival is very unique out of the many popping up all over China &#8211; it takes place right on a beach so that concertgoers can enjoy the sand beneath their feet and dive into the ocean to cool off. Although there were only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[79,161,280,320],"class_list":["post-513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-society_category","tag-china","tag-festival","tag-music","tag-qingdao"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}