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Originally Posted by DoubleK
Did anyone go to Shambhala?
Was the first one for me and is quite the experience if you haven't been before.
Very impressed with the quality of the stages and sound systems.
I was particularly blown away by Protohype. Not normally a dubstep guy, but have not heard someone destroy a crowd like that in a very long time.
Andy C & Armani Reign killed it on Saturday. Those guys need to come to Calgary more frequently than they do.
See below for Datsik's opening track... Special Sham edit!! 
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I've been to 3 Shambhala's as of this year, and they are easily the best thing that happens in western Canada (imo of course).
At a typical music festival, people are generally there to consume the festival: they expect to be entertained, for someone to pick up after them, Beer gardens, etc. And many festivals create conditions that kill people in order to keep alcohol sponsors happy.
At Shambhala, the majority of the people are there as participants: the crowd is often more entertaining to look at than the stages, no corporate sponsorship, people offer gifts to strangers, people set up attractions in their camp (my camp had a geodesic dome with an aerial hoop and hammocks) and there is a general sense that people are looking out for and supporting one another. People leave with a improved sense of well being in both themselves and the world they live in. Shambhala is somewhere between a traditional music festival and Burning Man, it's hard to find anything that you can directly compare it to.
My favorite sets this year were A Skillz, DJ Nu Mark, Mr Scruff, Mark Farina's Mushroom Jazz, Vespers, Moby and the Fractal Funk Jam.