WEBSTERVILLE, Vt. (WCAX) – Cars lined up Saturday, with people patiently waiting to say goodbye to Vermont’s 14th Rockfire Festival.
“It feels special, and also very happy that the weather is working out. Could not have asked for a more beautiful day,” Mark Sohlstrom of Williston said.
This is Sohlstrom’s fourth time visiting the festival.
He says he always comes back because there isn’t any event like this anywhere in Vermont. And when he heard this was the party’s last year, he hoped it would go out with a bang.
“There is too many parts. You know, the throwing of the fire. The fire walk, through the woods. There is usually a DJ at the end, and that’s always fun,” Sohlstrom said.
Rockfire first started as a way to raise money for the festival’s hometown forest, and then it just became an annual event.
It has food vendors, music and, of course, fire throwing.
The Krishna Guthrie band, who have performed at the festival before, say they are going to miss playing for the celebration at the top of the hill.
“It is a little bitter sweet because it is ending, but it has been a really cool thing to be apart of. Great music during the day and I love playing while they do the fire show with the wall. It is so cool to watch,” Guthrie said.
And creator of the festival, Pierre Couture, says the event has grown so much, and as he gets older, it’s been tough to keep up with all the preparation it takes.
And he thanks the fifteen hundred people that came out to see the fire show one last time.
“It is really nice to go out with a flourish. You know, to go out on top of our game. As I say, people come and they want to explain to their friends what they say. It’s indescribable,” Couture said.
