HEMP HEALS MUSIC FESTIVAL

Philadelphia Fever with Riles Cote

I met Riles Cote before he set this event in motion, Hempy to be a small part of his-story too.

PhillyVoice -Inquirer

"If you walk around to all the tents and the vendors, you’ll see a lot of the different faces of cannabis and hemp," Cote said. "You’ll see hemp clothing, skin and hair products, hemp paper, you’ll see a guy from Lancaster who sells a hemp pretzel. He calls them Hempzels.  .

Check out the rest of Riles Story for Hemp Heals Music Fest 2015

 
 

2012 We are Pysched

Meeting Riles Cote at my LTH HQ's in  Columbia, PA was where the adventure began. We discussed his vision called Hemp Heals Music Festival and would I like to participate?  heck yeah! I made some phone calls to Les Stark, Byrn Gohn and my other buddies to get the word out in the hemp community that I personally knew.

Les was so excited & encouraged me to make a clip of this - we hope you enjoy it - My His-story, hempy to have been involved in a small part..

2012 Opening by J.D.

John Dvorack came down from Massachusetts to share his wealth of knoweldge about hemp, I originally met John at an Hemp Industrys Conference in California years back. he's compiling  Hempology. 

Visit Johns treasure trove of hemp knowledge, he's the bast!

 
 

Riles Cote The Man

Founder Riles Cote of Hemphealsfoundation standing in his booth with Philadelphia Flyers shirts

Celeb Stoner 2013

In addition to the music, there were speeches by Cote,  Chris Goldstein N.A. Poe , Les Stark and CelebStoner's Steve Bloom, and a number of vendors selling hemp products, such as  Hempzels  and  Good Seed Burgers .


Start with the customer – find out what they want and give it to them.

2014 Riles With Uke

Uke Washington Philadelphia Channel 3 interviews Riles Cote about the 3rd annual Hemp Heals Music Festival. Education is the key.. Riles remembered to give us a shout out. Thank you Buddy!

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Founder Riles Cote sitting on couch looking toward the future

2016 Philadelphia Voice

"If you walk around to all the tents and the vendors, you’ll see a lot of the different faces of cannabis and hemp. You’ll see hemp clothing, skin and hair products, hemp paper, you’ll see a guy from Lancaster who sells a hemp pretzel. He calls them Hempzels. So it’s also inspiring young entrepreneurial minds and giving them a tool and a resource to use in a different, innovative and eco-friendly way."

The money from the event -- the festival raised $8,000 last year -- goes toward educating people about the uses and benefits of hemp, like the workshop they held last year to teach around 20 local builders how to build with HempCrete, a natural building material.

 

Hemp Heals Concrete

I caputured the moment at another event Riles Held in 2015 to raise the awareness of Hemp Concrete - so it was advertised, I came up to set up the booth & Hempzelize the attendees - I think it worked.

Start with the customer – find out what they want and give it to them.

 
 
 
 

Scrapple TV 2014 Event

Poe "Richard" the Philadelphia Cannabis Activist in his hey day did a feature on the 3rd Annual Hemp Heals Music fest in Philadelphia on Penns Landing. A GREAT time

Start with the customer – find out what they want and give it to them.

J.D. Hempologist

The legendary John Dvorack introduced me as he was the main speaker that year. I lost my camera after that speech in case anyone finds it. These words were unscripted - contact us.

 
 
 
 

Hemp Heals-History

Robesonia Pennsylvania is where this event was held and here another attendee will tell you how working with the Hemp Heals Foundation they learned & created Hempcrete. 

 

Speakers to Rile Up The Crowds

 
 

Tag Team - Les & John

Les honed his speaking skills at these events - amazing from 2012 to 2020 when he spoke at the Capital and tied this together. 

 
 

Back Stage with Les

While we were slinging Hempzels Les was checking out the back stage area of the 2012 Hemp Heals Music Festival in Philadelphia

His book Hempstone Heritage for sale online

Oh Les got motivated after this concert - yes there is no fear of a plant, Jah, Genesis 1:29 - 

 

 
 
 
 

Les Captured Shawn

I've spoken once or twice at this event, here is some raw footage.

Passion, not scripted.

MC Chris Goldstein

Introduces Les Stark to come up and get the crowd pumped about hemp history and activism.

Keystone Cannabis Coalition

 
 

2016 Chris kicks it off

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2019 New Venue

Well - it was fun at Penns Landing  but all good things come to an end and they moved us across the river and I had just purchased a Concession trailer so we thought we were set except we killed my Truck getting it down & back - oy!

Thank you Riles Cote!

Entertainment Clips

 
 

Stephan Marley 2014

We love Bob and we love all the Raggae Marleys - 

 

 
 

Could You Be Love

Yes we could and Stephan Marley sang it with the crowds passion in 2014 at the Hemp Heals Music Festivat at Penns Landing in Philadelphia

 
 

Bong Hits for Jesus 2012

Always good music and these guys are top of the line - we enjoyed all the music over the years.

 

 
 

Greenhouse Ventures

Greenhouse Ventures founder, Tyler Dautrich, interviewing Riley Cote and other vendors at the Hemp Heals Music Festival. Twitter: @GhouseVentures @hemp_heals @CycleClothingCo @KCC_PA Filmed & edited by Todd White

2018 Enjoy the Music

Slightly stoopid has been putting great music out - 2018 Raina captured the moment. 

 

 
 

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