Brian Morgante here!  Along with Candice, I am the other intern out on the road the first leg of this tour, and I couldn’t be happier to be working alongside David and Lauren and The Love Alliance this summer!  We just wrapped up Alive Festival in Canton, Ohio, and just wanted to fill you in on some of our adventures.  I wasn't able to make it out.  But the rest of the tour team was able to visit Stump Hill Farms Animal Rescue in Massilon OH.  They were able to play with baby tigers, bears etc.  We posted some pictures from that on our Flickr.  Be sure to check back soon for videos of that and many more tour videos.

For those of you who were present at the fest, the unpredictability of the weather left us all holding onto the edge of our seats, (or the corners of the tents) to see what was going to happen next!  From super humid and beautiful days, to tornado warnings, mud pits and high winds, we had a little bit of everything!  In the vendor tents we were having some flooding, but the great people at the Alive staff were able to get us cleaned up, moved out of harm’s way, and able to sell in a dry envir onment, haha.

Every day at the fest seemed to really bring a lot of different people to the table, some old friends and familiar faces from past festivals that we’ve been partnering with for some time now, as well as many new faces, ready and eager to learn about the basis of The Love Alliance, and even how they could get involved in their own area!  We were proud to say we handed out over 7,000 of our information fliers to people ready to read, ready to learn, and ready to make a difference in their communities!

People were really interested in a lot of our designs and the products we had to offer, and even had me making custom v-necks right at the table as we were selling out of them!  Seems like the DIY style was becoming popular by the end of the festival, and I’m sure we’ll be cutting many more by the end of the tour!

We are traveling with our good friends in Stand True.  The founder of the organization, Bryan Kemper spoke one of the days, and was kind enough to rock one of our shirts, as well as let us hand out some of our “Remember the Enslaved” cards going along with their informational cards.  Our friend Aaron Newberry from Sons Of God was playing guitar for Spoken, and wore one of our shirts during their rainy performance down on the beach stage, and we also made a new friend, little guy by the name of John Reuben!  After his performance, he was Emcee-ing the main stage the entire last day of the fest, and also rocked a Love Alliance shirt on stage for us, thanks so much John!

All in all, the festival was a success!  So many new friends, and we got a lot of pictures of people proudly wearing their new t-shirts that will be up on the website.  If you’re coming out to any of the other festivals this summer, be sure to come back to the booth with your shirts on so we can take some pictures together and get them up on here for you to share with your friends!

We’re in Troy, OH now at the Stand True headquarters for a few days until Creation Festival begins out in PA.  We may be sweaty, exhausted, and still a little mud-caked from Alive, but we’re excited for what’s in store for the rest of the summer!  See you all soon, and more updates on the way!

- Brian

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