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Celebrating its fifth 12 months within the Hamptons, Palm Tree Music Festival kicked off summer season with a sun-soaked, Don Julio-filled get together at Southampton’s Shinnecock Reservation on June 21. Crowds of revelers got here out to get sweaty, dance and get together to vibrant units from a jam-packed DJ lineup, together with Fisher, Kygo, Mau P, Coco & Breezy, Tinx & Lucas, Benjamin Lloyd, Beau Cruz and Blond:ish.
Taking a fast break from Ibiza, Blond:ish introduced the Mediterranean power to the Hamptons, giving festivalgoers a style of her historic Abracadabra residency present, performing hit songs like “By no means Stroll Alone” and mixing a big selection of home sounds for a set full of fine vibrations. The producer/DJ/label proprietor/philanthropist started her 11-week residency at clubbing establishment Pacha final month, turning into the primary female-led headlining residency on the venue and breaking the attendance report shortly after. With a brand new album out earlier this 12 months, a record-breaking residency present, and a valuable new child turning 1 quickly, 2025 has grow to be a 12 months of milestones for the Canadian artist.
Billboard caught up with the “By no means Stroll Alone” producer earlier than her set at Palm Tree Music Pageant to debate her historic female-led headlining residency, favourite pre-show rituals, and memorable crowd interactions. Try the interview beneath.
How does it really feel to have your first residency in Ibiza?
I went to Ibiza for the primary time 15 years in the past. I used to be 18, a extremely little rooster, and I understood the hustle there as a result of again then I didn’t have any cash, and I used to be hustling. So, simply getting round was a hustle, and stepping into all of the events, the villa events, and simply studying the way it works. It’s clearly superb, however each single day of my life up to now six months has simply been about, “How can we make this successful?” And we’re killing it.
There’s so many advertising levers. Everybody does enterprise otherwise, so that you gotta navigate so many layers of sh–. However then you might have this unbelievable factor on the floor that appears superb. You may really feel that individuals have been prepared for one thing like this in Ibiza, since you all the time get an identical providing, however that is completely different. That is extra intentional, extra of a female power, however gangster.
Did your first headlining Ibiza present really feel completely different from some other set you’ve finished?
Sure, as a result of it’s ours and the attractive factor is that it’s not only one week, it’s 11 weeks! So each week you may iterate. Now we have this blackout second the place we simply faux that every one the facility goes out, after which that creates a second of connection. As a result of that’s what we attempt to do with abracadabras. Deliver extra connection in little, tiny ways in which aren’t apparent. Like, “Hey, guys join now.” Folks begin speaking and also you may meet somebody. I’m on the dance ground hugging folks throughout, I acknowledge folks, you already know. That’s what the viewers needs.
Any enjoyable pre-show rituals earlier than getting onstage?
There’s 1000’s of individuals on the market, and everybody comes with a special temper, completely different power. Everybody’s going via completely different sh–. I’ve to placed on somewhat safety bubble on the market as a result of every thing I do is power. All the things is power. So, I simply make somewhat protecting bubble round me. Do some Qigong, a five-minute little ritual the place I may simply reset and get grounded, in order that the power I put out is pure and is optimized and environment friendly as potential. After which I’ve a tiny sip of tequila, like a tiny kiss.
Which kind of Don Julio tequila do you want greatest: Blanco, Reposado, Anejo?
The brown bottle. [Points at a bottle of Don Julio 1942 tequila.]
What’s your most popular option to drink tequila: neat, on the rocks, or a cocktail? If a cocktail, what type?
I used to drink a whole lot of Mezcal as a result of I lived in Tulum for a couple of years. That’s simply the tradition there, after which as I began touring extra internationally, like Mexico, I switched to tequila. I like spicy margaritas. I prefer to really feel like I’m within the deep jungles of Tulum at one of the best restaurant ever.
What’s a music that immediately transports you into a very good temper?
There’s this NYPD mashup of Mood Entice that’s actually “housey” and has these large strings, and it goes down a fifth, and it simply creates this loopy power. I’ll play it at the moment. I noticed that it makes everybody else joyful, so it makes me joyful when everybody else is joyful. I’m all the time doing music, so it’s extra of a utility now for me. I’ve to get ready for a present, I’ve to go dig for music, after which I’ve to play the music. So, once I’m not DJing, like, within the automobile, I’m not likely listening to music. I recognize the silence and listening to the sounds round me.
The phrase “power” appears to be a extremely necessary time period for you. How would you describe your power?
Each single phrase we are saying has power. You’re an power, no matter these guys are doing over there, each resolution we make, each single factor, each music, is a resident frequency. That’s sort of what I discovered to be the important thing to life. Should you body every thing as power, and also you all the time ask your self, “Does it take my power? Is it giving me power?” Then life begins to circulate extra. In order that’s why I discussed power so much, and that’s why I double down on it. So once you say, how would you describe your music? Yeah, I might simply say it’s energetic, you’re feeling an power. I don’t need to overuse that phrase, however that’s precisely what it’s.
In the case of nice power, there’s all the time this shut connection between you and the group. Generally they’ve requested for hugs or introduced you an entire pizza throughout your set. What’s probably the most enjoyable/memorable crowd interplay that you simply’ve skilled whereas DJing?
We had a bunch of individuals come to a present with tinfoil hats!
Tinfoil hats? Is there a which means behind it?
There’s a whole lot of meanings, like people who find themselves anti-system, individuals who don’t go together with the norm of society however for this, it’s extra about defending your self from magnetic power.
How has your onstage presence developed all through your profession?
It’s all impressed by the suggestions I get in my feedback and the DMs. Truthfully, that’s the place we create all of the tradition. I seen once I reply to folks in my DMs, I see how appreciative they’re. I understood, oh, okay, folks need to be acknowledged, even when I’m simply making eye contact with them, copying their dance strikes once I’m DJing. We attempt to perceive these little moments of connection. They actually recognize the hugs.
What would you like followers to remove after experiencing your set?
I’ve a child now. He’s virtually 1, and to see his pure face, like pure happiness, makes me query, “Why can we lose that going via life?” So my aim is to convey us as shut as we are able to again to that pure happiness. I simply need folks to dwell their greatest life. Via Abracadabra and my performances, all these seeds that we’re planting, and likewise via the music, I hope that everybody can open the street to residing their greatest life.