Sorry I didn't have time to reply to these posts before the fair. The party went great as always, and it makes all the hard work worthwhile to hear so often that it's the highlight of peoples fair.

There is no "in" crowd thing going with this at all. Everyone is welcome to attend, and I'm sorry if that impression was ever given. The previous posts I made about the Silent Rave always had the location and times.

The party is always at my booth the "The Carravan Cafe". It's booth #41 and is located right next to the Gypsy Stage. We serve the Buffalo Burgers during the day, and do the party every night starting at around 11:00.

I bring headphones that I pass out to everyone. I have enough that you usually can always get one, and if they are all in use then you will most likely only wait a few minutes for someone to turn one in. I have people there that tune the headsets and make sure they are working right before handing them back out. I can always use more help doing this, and anyone interested in helping in the future is welcome to PM me.

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Noise is an issue for property outside the fair for the most part.

As much as everyone would like to say(I was once one of them) that the hippy grandparents are complaining about the noise that is not the case really.

Sure there are some older folks in the fair, who want to complain about the noise, but coming from the perspective of working with the staff that manages the noise after hours, I can say it's more complicated then that. The complaints they get from within the fair itself are of minor concern in comparison with the complaints from outside.

The problem is the fair itself is surrounded by property owned by other people. The Fair may seem huge, but when you have amplified sound out there it reaches these people easily. They complain not to the Fair, but to the Man. Now if they Man gets too many noise complaints after hours in relation to the fair. Yeah you guessed it, they pull the permits, and the party is way over. Not just oh waaa they turned of my music over, but 25+ year event dead, done, fully over for everyone. I'm not trying to be the one arguing for afterhours bumpin that results in that.

Now the relatively quiet(in comparison with a sound system bumping house/techno) jam band shows that happen at night manage to get noise complaints from outside all the time. What do you think will happen to our sound system that pushes bass frequencies so low they still shake windows so far away that you can't even hear the actual sound, but your window still vibrates. Cue police siren.

The bottom line is that if you want to go hear electronic music blasting through a sound system all night long, then we regularly throw events like that all year long. I have no problem with having to resort to a compromise in order to get a dance party going at the fair.