Quilt square: Black fabric, with The Bamboozle 2008 logo featuring two clown faces

27. The Bamboozle

The Bamboozle was a music festival held in Asbury Park, NJ for many years, and later at the Meadowlands in East Rutherford, NJ. Becky, ever the persuasive girl, managed to convince her dad to take us in 2008. It was a two day festival, like a more concentrated Warped Tour, featuring some of our favorite bands. The festival was held the first weekend in May, just days before we both had to take the very important AP tests. Our AP Calc teacher wasn’t very pleased. The first day of the festival was overcast, and Becky and I are very pale. We received horrible sunburns that still make us laugh till this day, but we were sure to apply sunscreen for the second day. We watched some of our favorite acts of that moment perform, including Chiodos, Jack’s Mannequin, The Maine, Finch, The Academy Is…, and We the Kings. Even with all the fun, we managed to do well on our AP exams later that week. Or at least I did well. Becky did outstanding.

Author: hiimbridget