“Looking back, I would consider the inaugural year of Treefort Music Fest to be a resounding success. This was a highly organized and tightly run festival with no visible hiccups that one would associate with a fist time adventure. The festival provided a fantastic glimpse into a wide variety of emerging and established artists and I left with distinct impression that while Treefort may be a small it’s well on its way to becoming a regional tour de force,”
“I enjoy playing small-scale festivals a lot…And this is the first one of those I’ve ever played that felt urban. It just had a good feeling. It felt like a small-town thing but with a cosmopolitan vibe,”
- Marty Marquis, Blitzen Trapper – as quoted in the Idaho Statesman
“In truth, I’m still reeling from the over-sensory experience – reasons musical, social, commercial, familial, chemical and habitational all burn in my brain like a cattle brand. In other words: we all left floored. Somehow, Boise’s first foray into tier-1 market models was beyond a success, the kind of “first” ready to spin out of control in the annals of oral rock myth due to moments you were not present for, will not remember, and will have no way to verify when they become the incendiary “were you there for … ?” memes. I mean this not just for the stars of the shows but also all the others who volunteered, played, rocked, partied, and packed every club, restaurant, and hotel in the Boise metropolitan area to the gills for the fest’s trial run. It was a beautiful, tightly wound, and well-organized mess. Look: no one was sure it would work, but it really worked,”
“A cool festival in a cool town with cool bands. That’s the basic recipe and Treefort followed it to perfection,”
- Vito Valentinetti, Music Festival Junkies
“In its first year, Treefort hit all the right notes,”
- Michael Deeds, Idaho Statesman
“…Treefort’s lineup really hit a sweet spot,”
- Nicole L. Browner, The Bay Bridged
“…over the past week, my brain has been trying to figure out how a small group of people in Southern Idaho went from entertaining the idea of a new festival last fall to pulling off one of the best festivals I’ve ever had the pleasure to attend within a few quick months…All said and done, the inaugural Treefort Festival in Boise offered an experience in the upper echelon of all this schmuck’s festival experiences”
- Nick Peterson, Apes on Tape
“In the glow of it all bands who often were brand new to Boise were emphatically declaring their return to town for next year’s festival as they left the stage,”
- Josh Loveseth, Sound on the Sound
