STUNNING PERFORMANCES AT LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL 2021- LAS VEGAS FESTIVAL
Big names from the music industry like Billie Eilish, Green Day, Megan Thee Stallion and more set the stage ablaze with their amazing performances at Life Is Beautiful music and art festival. This three-day music festival made an epic return to Downtown Las Vegas over the September 17th-19th weekend after a one-year hiatus due to the pandemic. With four stages, sprawling over multiple blocks, there were also performances by Brittany Howard, Tame Impala and a few emerging faces in the mix too, as acts like SHAED and Amy Allen warmed up the crowds.
The vibrant festival has been engaging the streets of the neon capital since 2013. From colossal art installations to a Bacardi Art Motel dedicated to attaining the best photo, while listening to house music, Life is Beautiful is an all-embracing festival that goes beyond the music.
Here’s what went down at Life is Beautiful, in stunning pictures.
(1) Californian funk-popper Remi Wolf kicks things off
(2) Sporting her signature blue hair, pop rapper and TikTok sensation, Ashnikko was simply sensational with bangers like ‘Slumber Party’ and ‘Daisy’.
(3) Willow Smith rocked the stage with her wide vocal range, along with plenty of guitar ripping moments.
(4) Glass Animals bring the peanut butter jelly vibes to Las Vegas
(5) Megan Thee Stallion turned up the heat in Sin city with ‘Freak Nasty’ from her 2018 album, Tina Snow.
(6) It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day, it’s a new life – and Brooklyn’s Yaeji leaves Downtown feeling good on Saturday evening
(7) Before long, the clock strikes Haim time
(8) It’s the band’s first festival set in well over a year, and Alana is ecstatic
(9) Ludacris leads the party over at the Bacardi stage
(10) Green Day Did it For the ’90s Kids with hits like ‘American Idiot,’ ‘Basket Case’ and the seasonally-appropriate ‘Wake Me Up When September Ends.’
(11) Canadian duo ‘Death From Above 1979’ bring their dance-punk to ‘Life is Beautiful’ on Sunday
(12) Daddy’s home! St. Vincent serves up her bourbon-soaked new record for the Downtown stage
(13) The career-spanning setlist also includes ‘Cheerleader’, ‘Digital Witness’ and live favourite ‘Marrow’
(14) Young Thug joins Lorde, Kanye West and Kid Cudi in the small but flourishing club of ‘artists performing in glass boxes’ and adds fire to the equation.
(15) The Atlantan rapper plays the likes of ‘Go Crazy’, ‘Ski’ and recent Drake collab ‘Way 2 Sexy’
(16) Closing out the festival is left to none other than Billie Eilish. Billie used her set to give a handful of tracks from recent album ‘Happier Than Ever’ their first ever live airings.
—Silviya Yohannan
