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Lollapalooza Round 2!

I can’t believe it is less than a week until I will be in lovely Chi-town slingin’ some Sweet Leaf Tea with my awesome tea’mates. This will be my second year attending Lolla and I couldn’t be more excited.

Last year was my practice round…this year I’m gonna be a Lolla pro!

When I’m not passing out the best tea on the planet, you can find me jamming to my favorite bands. This year, I have a huge dilemma- Coldplay or Muse? Gwyneth Paltrow’s handsome hubby or Kate Hudson’s baby daddy? Of course they are both playing at the same time Friday night! I love them both and I can’t decide! Might just come to the toss of a coin!

Lollapalooza tip: Bring a poncho! We’ve got a 50% chance of scattered T-storms on Friday in Chicago, folks!

And believe me- I am not letting anything rain on my parade! (pun intended)

SweetLeafDanny here, bringing you the 1st Sweet Picks and Tips of Lollapalooza!  This is the frist edition of a series where we tell you a top band pick at the fest and a tip to survive, so be sure to continue to stop by and see what the rest of the Tea’m has to say!  Maybe their tip will help you get out of a port-o-potty experience gone sour, or help you find friends when the cell signal is down, or a way to get into VIP!  Stay tuned, but for now enjoy.

If you are into Soul music, banging beats, and that big horn sound….Look no further than Mayer Hawthorne and the County!

This group know how to put on a show.  I saw them last year (2010) at SXSW and it was amazing.  Turn up your energy to full blast and get your stepping shoes on when you see this group! Check out this video to start getting excited.  They go on at 3:30pm on Saturday at the Sony Stage!

I have been around the block a few times, seen some great bands, traveled across the country in pursuit of Liber-TEA and good times, and have a 3 tips that will make your festival experience the best it can be!

1 – Equal parts Tea/Water to Alcohol Ratio!

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen someone passed out on the grass at 7:30pm on Friday night at a music festival.  Follow this tip and you’ll be on the fast track to hydration, fun, and carrying on through to the night, and the rest of the weekend! *High-five bro!*

2 – Sunscreen – USE it!

Don’t get burnt, skin cancer sucks, so does having to avoid the sun the rest of the festival with a obnoxious hat. (see below)

3 – Fake Mustaches – bring em!

It’s fun to have them on and hand them to strangers.  You’ll make someone’s day and look suave doing it!

Follow these tips and have a great time at Lolla!  Oh yeah, be sure to stop by Mayer Hawthorne and the County to say hi and fist bump!  Keep it real!

Granny has busted out her riding gear and dusted off her 3-speed cruiser and is ready for a night time cruise in the windy city!  Chicago’s L.A.T.E. Ride is this weekend and we couldn’t be more excited to be apart of this awesome event! Basically, at 11pm on Saturday July 9th a group of 9,000 cyclist meet at Buckingham fountain to ride 25-miles around the city through the streets and trails! There is a pit stop mid-way and at the end of the ride everyone meets back at Buckingham Fountain for a pancake breakfast at 3am with some Sweet Leaf to wash it down!  The great thing about this event is that all the proceeds go to Friends of the Parks, a Non-Profit organization who work on many park issues and dig in at park clean-ups and beautification projects in Chicago!

Registration for the event can be found here, or if you want to walk up its $45 for your rider packet and the ride!

What do you say Chicago? Wanna come out, help out the parks, have an amazing bike ride through the Windy City at the wee-hours of the morning, and drink some free Sweet Leaf Tea!  Head on out!

-@SweetLeafDanny

Granny is at it again!  You just can’t stop this woman from spreading homemade goodness across the US and beyond!  This time she is headed to Chicago, to attend Lincoln Park Zoo’s Super Zoo Picnic!  Head on over to the Lincoln Park Zoo (click here for location) for crafts, inflatable fun for the kids, DJ’s, carousel rides, and of course some free Sweet Leaf Tea!  Our professional tea slinger, me =  @SweetLeafDanny will be there passing out tea and some awesome goodies.  If you are a member, be sure to stop by the booth because we’ll have a photobooth set up to take some pretty Sweet Snaps that you can send to your granny! Lincoln Park Super Zoo Picnic is Friday the 17th of June between 6:30 – 9:00pm.  Click HERE for more details on the event.  If you live in Chicago and haven’t been to Lincoln Park Zoo, it’s great and this event is a great time to make your debuts visit!
Stop by our booth and say Hi, grab a tea, and get a sweet photo!

–@SweetLeafDanny

Lollapalooza 2011 marks the festival’s 20th year of bringing you great bands, good times, and experiences that you’ll remember forever! Ever since Lollapalooza made Chicago it’s home in 2005 and quit the touring, Sweet Leaf Tea has been apart of the action….balloon launching, thirst quenching, high-fiving, and fun having! To Granny and a lot of Sweet Leaf Tea’m, Chicago feels like our second home. With that being said, we can’t wait for the 20th Anniversary Festival. Lolla just posted a Time Capsule recaping the past 20 years in action and SLT made a couple of appearances as well! Check it out by clicking HERE, and see below for a couple snap-shots of Granny in Action.

There are gonna be some very awesome things happening this year, so if you want to be apart of the action, you can start purchasing early-bird tickets on April 5th at 10:00am Central Time. The line-up will be up on April 26th, and be sure to stay on top of the Sweet Leaf Tea Blog, because I have a feeling we’ll be sending a few lucky people up there with us. Stay tuned.

- @SweetLeafDanny

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