Otis Mountain Get Down was born one night in late July, when a small group of Champlain students and recent alum gathered in the mountains of Elizabethtown, N.Y., and decided to combine two things most Vermonters love: local music and the Lake Champlain valley.
Quillan George, a recent graduate from Champlain College, and Zach Allott, a Champlain senior, are behind the operation. With George’s past music event management experience and Allott’s drive to keep the spirit of Otis Mountain alive, they teamed up to try and put on the festival that had disappeared since 2009 (more on this later).
“We thought it would be about 100 people, just a small get together,” Allott said. But when the duo started posting about the festival on Facebook and Instagram, it went “viral and completely blew that.”
The festival has a no-glass policy and is strictly BYOB. There will be locally sourced food available to purchase.
For more information, visit www.otismountain.com.