When a nature-loving musician takes the stage in an iconic national park, magic is inevitable. Watch Park Sessions, a captivating series featuring influential artists like Mike Posner, Scout Willis, Goth Babe, and more. Each intimate set blends music and landscape, connecting the tracks and the wild places—and digging into the power of the outdoors to inspire art.
Learn more about the artists featured in Park Sessions:
Mike Posner
Posner might be best known for the hits “Cooler Than Me” and “I Took a Pill in Ibiza,” but the Detroit-born musician has big ambitions for the outdoors as well, and it’s not just performing in spectacular places like Zion National Park. In 2019 Posner embarked on a Walk Across America, traveling from New Jersey to California. He did it in about six months—despite being bitten by a rattlesnake en route. He followed that up by summiting Mt. Everest in 2021, and this year Posner is through-hiking the 3,100-mile Continental Divide Trail. How’s that for music meets mountains?
Scout Willis
When it comes to connecting with nature, Scout Willis got a head start. She was raised in Sun Valley, Idaho, surrounded by mountains and life close to nature. That early influence can be seen in her music today, as she writes and performs in a way that distills grounding mantras and invokes a playful flirtation. In Sequoia National Park, amid the world’s largest trees, Willis said, “To get to sing and play music in a place like this, it’s such a privilege.”
Goth Babe
Goth Babe doesn’t just visit nature. He lives in it. Whether camping out of his converted truck or sailing down the Pacific Coast, Goth Babe has embraced a nomadic lifestyle that perfectly supports his music making. Originally from Tennessee, Goth Babe travels with his dog Sadie, exploring places like Olympic National Park and the West’s other big wilderness areas because, as he puts it, “There’s so much more to listen to when you go out in the natural world.”
Toro y Moi
“Nature will always put you in your place,” says Chaz Bear, who records as Toro y Moi. That’s one reason the San Francisco Bay Area artist loves playing at Big Sur State Park, where vast hillside vistas overlook the Pacific Ocean, whales can be spotted surfacing off the coast, and cool swimming holes take the sizzle off of summer afternoons. Another reason? Toro y Moi’s evolving experiment in creating a “camping festival with music” — a two-day, community-driven event in Big Sur that’s hard to define, just like his music.
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