Update: Congrats to Steven G, our winner of pair of sweet tickets to the Sweetlife Music + Food Festival Saturday, May 11 at noon! Congratulations, Steven!
Now in its third year, Sweetlife continues to pair up incredible music with some of the best foods this area has to offer. As if having Phoenix headlining the event wasn’t already insane enough, acts like Passion Pit, Kendrick Lamar, and Yeah Yeah Yeahs make this lineup the best one yet. Imagine seeing all of those top-notch acts as you spend a day full of great food and fun at Merriweather Post Pavilion!
The line-up:
Phoenix, Passion Pit, Kendrick Lamar, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Gary Clark Jr, Solange, Lindsey Stirling, Holy Ghost!, Youth Lagoon, Haerts, Robert DeLong, Ms Mr, twenty | one | pilots
Conveniently located in Columbia, MD, just 30 minutes outside DC, Merriweather Post Pavilion is an iconic venue situated among 40 acres of forest. It’s the perfect place to celebrate music, food and sustainable living.
This pair of general admission lawn seats is valued at $150 and gets you a spot on the green, expansive lawn. So grab a lawn chair and blanket and get ready to have some sustainable fun!
To enter, tell us in the comments below what you do to give back to the environment!
Sweetlife Music + Food Festival
Merriweather Post Pavilion
10475 Little Patuxent Parkway
Columbia, MD
Contest runs April 22-May 5, 2013. Open to all readers in the continental U.S. Winner is chosen through a random drawing and will be notified through email. Winner must respond within 24 hours to claim prize(s). One entry per person. Void where prohibited.

Mary was born and raised in New York City where her family owned restaurants. Instead of eating dirt on the playground, she ate duck blood, beef tripe and pork belly. She cut her teeth at The Mandarin Oriental and The Ritz-Carlton hotels, working with Barbra Streisand, Vanessa Williams, Michael Stipe, LeVar Burton, Jane Krakowski and others. Mary founded Girl Meets Food in 2009 as a cover for her debilitating addiction to fried chicken and was named Washington Post’s “Favorite Local Foodie.” After 13 years in hospitality, she started freelance writing for USA Today, The Washington Post, Eater, Washington City Paper, and more. Today, she provides digital marketing for hospitality clients as a content creator who’s contently creating content.