This op-ed originally appeared in Standard-Examiner on 30 July 2025, and was written by John Yelland, Festival Director of Grillfest and Executive Director of the Meat and Metal Guild.
In the early 2010s, a group of us in Utah’s underground music scene came together to transform a backyard into an amphitheater. We brought together all the things we loved most — tasty food, good music and each other. We called it Grillfest — a cheeky name for what was really just a family reunion for Utah’s music community. But over time, it grew into something more. Over the course of a few years, it became a small but beloved fixture in the community.
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