Texafied JamFest

02/04/2024

I guess it’s us…we bring the weather. 🤦🏼‍♀️💜🎶🌪️🤠

01/10/2024

Since the very first Texafied (before it was even called Texafied - back in 2016 with ) was to celebrate the THIRTY YEAR mark, I wanted to share this, here, too - HAPPY THIRTY-EIGHT YEARS OF LIVING to the incomparable Todfather !!! 💜 Original post: Since the very beginning of our relationship, Tod and I have talked about our GRATITUDE for the illnesses that could have killed us when we were younger. If not for those trials and ultimate triumphs, we wouldn’t be living this life together that we love and value and cherish. Never take a single moment for granted, and always know that life is never guaranteed. But man, is it WORTH living!!! 💜 Happy THIRTY-EIGHT YEARS cancer free, my love…I am the lucky one. I love you so much…and I am SO GRATEFUL for your life and all the blessings it’s allowed. 💜

11/07/2023

Hey Texafied peeps! A lot of you are keeping up with our daughter and her volleyball team this year - it’s been QUITE THE RIDE!!! We are advancing, tonight, to regional quarterfinals. It’s a big deal! We are among the top 32 teams in the whole state of Texas in our division. If y’all remember, Texafied a year ago brought tragedy/grief, along with all the beautiful magic. This group of kids (team and friends/fans) was intimately a part of both, so I’m asking y’all (our people!) to send your energy their way tonight - keep the magic alive! 💜🏐🐾🔥❤️

11/04/2023

Twisterfied JamFest was one year ago today…wow! Share your memories! 💜🎶🤠

05/27/2023

BEAUTIFUL start to the summer! Happy Memorial Day from Mama’s Place in Birthright, TX!!! We are grateful to those heroes who have made our dreams possible. 🇺🇸And we are grateful for this life we live and love. 💜

05/17/2023

I still don’t really have sufficient words of gratitude for this incredible, thoughtful, EMOTIONAL gift. I know lots of you played a part in getting pictures and quotes submitted…thank you. Meg Harper you knocked it out of the park with this one! So many forever friendships were forged over fires (and in the mud, and chasing bowling balls, and sheltering in place 🤦🏼‍♀️) at Texafied JamFest through the years, and this “yearbook” captures it all so perfectly. I still can’t look through without finding something new and tearing up all over again…and the “most likely to…” section in the back that many of y’all voted on just makes me giggle and brings such joy.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you ALL for giving us so much. 💜🎶🤠

Meg has a link for anyone who’d like to purchase their own copy…just drop a comment below or message her or me (Leah Lair Conner).

Love y’all!

03/22/2023

Good morning friends and family! This is going to be a long post, so for those of you that might not want to read the whole story, I'm putting bullet points at the top...lol.

- We have made the difficult (but best for our family) decision to discontinue Texafied JamFest, and that include's 2024's Tex-Eclipse-afied JamFest and Holistic Faire.

- If you have already rented an RV from Scott Huizenga at Campers4Rent.com for the 2024 event, you have a couple of options - 1. cancel your RV, and Tod and I will cover your cancelation fee of $100, or 2. transfer your reservation to a site Scott has secured for eclipse viewing in nearby Cumby, TX (Exit 110 - where Black Jack liquor store is!). There will be LOTS going on in the area over the weekend - plenty to do and fun to be had, and there might even be a Texafied artist or two around, playing some local shows! 😉

- If you had submitted an application (or were planning to submit an application) to be a holistic vendor, One Soul Yoga Studio will be hosting a handful of events at the studio and maybe even an event or two at Mama's Place. Stay tuned!

- We still have merch available on https://www.texafiedjamfest.com and will have a clearance sale in the near future. The only thing that won't be marked down is the cookbook, as 100% of its sales go to MD Anderson Cancer Center pediatric oncology.

Now for the long, emotional post for those of you that want to know how we came to this decision.

It's the middle of March, more than four months have passed since the last Texafied JamFest, and our family is only just starting to feel like we're recovering financially, emotionally, and physically from the event. It takes A LOT to put on an event like Texafied, and while we've always considered it to be 100% worth it, this last one took a different kind of toll. Many of you know, but I feel that many of you also don't, we had some significant stressors during the event, and I'm talking about things entirely outside the crazy, scary weather. On Friday, just before the storms, our son and his friend rolled our ATV on a county road near our house. He was pinned under it for a bit and tore up his knee and leg (he has fully recovered). His friend was scraped up a bit, and they were both really shaken up. We all felt incredibly lucky that it wasn't worse, since a friend had just recently lost her fiancee in a similar accident.

Next were the waves of tornado warnings, and while we were mostly unscathed here at Mama's Place, it was a little bit terrifying, and several lives were lost just a few miles north of our home, by the very tornado that kept us all huddled in the house together for awhile.

Just after the storms, we received word that Hadlee's boyfriend had been in a horrible car accident and was being taken to a Dallas hospital for his traumatic injuries. Hadlee is one of Lucy's (and Mac's) best friends since birth and she was actually here for much of Texafied. Hadlee's boyfriend was the brother of the friend who’d just lost her fiancée I mentioned above. His name was Dylan, and while he clung to life for a week after the accident, he died the next Friday.

With all of these things going on, but having to stick to our commitment of producing/putting on a music festival and hosting LOTS of folks here at our home, it wasn't until the dust all settled that we were able to even start addressing the heaviness of all that happened. The festival, itself, had nothing to do with all of the difficult events, but we were all exhausted and beaten up pretty badly. It just felt like all too much.

Add to that the financial and physical demands (as Tod says, we're getting too old!)...every time we talked it through as a family, it just seemed like the right thing to do was put Texafied aside and focus our efforts elsewhere. We can use the money we'd normally invest in the festival to support our favorite artists, directly, to give to MD Anderson, directly, and to attend and sponsor other festivals that we love but don't get to go to because of finances set aside for Texafied.

All of this said, we hope that you all understand and know that we love you all so much! We have created a wonderful family, and even though Texafied won't happen, we all know that we will still gather, wherever we can, whenever we can, and we will support each other. Rock By The Sea is just around the corner, and so many of us will be there! Thank you all, from our very souls, for all the love and memories you've helped make with our beloved music festival. LOVE ALWAYS WINS. 💜🎶🤠

03/03/2023

Twisterfied 2.0… just a little 70-80 mph gusts … intense!

02/28/2023

I've had a question from a couple of you about Texafied JamFest merch orders, specifically the Twisterfied shirts. I have them all sorted and ready to go, but I am now waiting on the USPS. I placed an order with them at the end of January for enough flat rate mailers to get the job done. My order is still marked "processing," though it was supposed to be on its way to me in 3-5 business days. I am so sorry for the delay, but I assure you, all of the shirts will go out as soon as I receive the mailers! Love to y'all, and thanks for your patience! 💜🎶🤠

02/10/2023

Meet Lucy Fly Trap….

02/07/2023

Meaghan will be joining us for Tex-eclipse-afied JamFest & Holistic Faire in April 2024! Let's make sure her new album is up and going, so we can all learn new music to sing along with her that weekend. Let's do this!!! New music from Meaghan Farrell FOR. THE. WIN!!! 💜🎶🤠

A full length record of new music by Meaghan Farrell.

01/31/2023

The Texafied family lost a dear family member this morning…😭 Ann .ann will be so missed. She and Lauren have sponsored our event since they knew of its existence. She was a warm, funny, lovely woman who was always willing to help and always had a beautiful smile for anyone who looked her way! Our thoughts, prayers, and healing wishes are with Lauren, her dad, and the rest of the close friends and family, as they grieve and adjust to a new world without Ann’s physical presence. Her light will always shine! 💜🙏🏻🎶💜

01/18/2023

Hey y’all! I have been super sick this week (that’s not supposed to happen until AFTER a week on a big boat - lol!), so Twisterfied shirts will not likely go out until we’re back from The Rock Boat. I’m sorry for the delay! If you asked us to bring yours on the boat, we’ll have it! And some of you asked for us to bring on Sail Across the Sun, which we will do! Thanks for understanding and patience, and we’ll see lots of y’all SOOOOOONNNN!!!! 💜🎶🤠

01/09/2023

If you ordered a Twisterfied t-shirt, those will be going out in the mail by the end of this week! If you're going on The Rock Boat or Sail Across the Sun and would like us to bring them that way, instead, please let me know (easier and cheaper for all of us!)!

01/03/2023

https://www.texafiedjamfest.com/holistic-faire

***Calling all holistic vendors, healers, readers, practitioners***

If you're interested in participating in the Tex-eclipse-afied JamFest and Holistic Faire, the application link is up and ready for you! Please be thorough and detailed when describing your offerings. We will review applications and notify accepted vendors by June 2, 2023. The fest and faire will be held April 6-8, 2024. Questions? Comment or send me a message here or by email - [email protected] 💜🎶🤠

If you are interested in sharing your products, healing modalities (yoga, reiki, massage, hypnosis, etc.), and/or card readings with those attending the Holistic Faire, please fill out the application here on this page. The deadline to submit an application is May 31, 2023. All approved vendors/heal...

12/24/2022

Getting Mama’s Place fired up for ice skating!!!
Jk… but man, it’s cold.

12/13/2022

And so it begins…again. But this time, I don’t have all my people with me. Love y’all! 💜🎶🤠

12/10/2022

Everyone who shares this post will be entered to win a limited-edition CD of Live in Floyds K***s – Road 1 of my 21 ROADS project. ⁠
⁠
I just wrapped recording and filming Roads 3 & 4 in Mexico this month and can’t wait to share them with you. Road 5 is something you’ve never seen from me before. And there’s so much more to come. ⁠
⁠
There are 3 easy ways to join the 21 ROADS journey: ⁠
⁠
Follow me on IG⁠
Subscribe to my mailing list (link below)
Become a 21 ROADER – more on that in a few months…⁠
⁠
Congrats to yesterday’s winner – Kristen Wahamaki! You are triumphant.⁠
⁠
🛫❤️

http://eepurl.com/gTZ--P

12/07/2022

Drumroll, please! 🥁🥁🥁

Texafied JamFest and One Soul Yoga Studio are proud and excited to announce Tex-eclipse-afied JamFest and Holistic Faire!!!! Yes, April 6-8, 2024 seems a long way off, but because of this amazing eclipse opportunity, it's important to start making plans NOW!!!

We'll have yoga and holistic vendors during the day and incredible music in the evenings. Tickets will be sold for JamFest only, Holistic Faire only, and ALL ACCESS. If you're interested in being a vendor, I'll have applications available soon.

Over the next few days, I'll be updating the Texafied JamFest web site with more information, and we'll begin announcing musicians soon. This is going to be such a magical, once-in-a-lifetime experience!

Scott Huizenga at Campers4Rent.com is ready to help you with your RV rental needs for the weekend. If RVing isn't for you, PLEASE CALL AND BOOK YOUR HOTEL ROOMS RIGHT AWAY. The city of Sulphur Springs is expecting 40,000+ visitors for eclipse viewing on Monday, April 8. Events and activities are being planned for the whole weekend all over town, so hotels will be sold out (and probably soon!)!

Save the dates - and start making plans to be here - you don't want to miss this!!!💜🎶🤠

12/06/2022

Anybody ready for a big, fun, official announcement for 2024?!?!? 💜🎶🤠

11/29/2022

Last day to order this limited, special edition merch will be NEXT FRIDAY, December 9 - don’t miss it!!! Get yours today at texafiedjamfest.com/shop - and while you’re there, pick up a cookbook, custom tumblers, 2022 festival shirts, and more! 💜🎄🎶🤠

11/24/2022

Happy Thanksgiving from Mama’s Place! Love y’all and wish you were here!!! 💜🎶🤠

11/22/2022

Texafied peeps!!! “Pics with Peeps” from the incomparable Alice Hsieh Photography are now here!!! Enjoy and share and tag! 💜🎶🤠

11/19/2022

Day drinking and texeclipsified planning = oh damn…