By Ryan Smith

Special to Bravo!

MASONTOWN, West Va. — July, 2008: The energy from the stage poured out into the sunkissed crowd, palpable as a pulse.

Half-way up the hill, children played and danced, joyous and uninhibited.

In the middle of it all, a matronly-looking woman shaded by a beach umbrella painted ornate designs on a girl’s face.

That’s just a glimpse from the Mountaintop.

And it’s only two more weeks until it’s All Good again.

Now in its 13th year, the All Good Music Festival — the mid-Atlantic’s largest annual live music and camping event, featuring an all-star, virtually non-stop lineup of living jam legends — is July 9 through 12 at Marvin’s Mountaintop in Masontown, West Va.

This year's performers include Ben Harper and RELENTLESS7, Bob Weir & RatDog, moe., Umphrey’s McGee, Keller Williams, Les Claypool, Yonder Mountain String Band, Dark Star Orchestra, Sound Tribe Sector 9 and more ... really. A lot more.

SPIN Magazine has hailed it as one of the year’s most standout summer festivals. JamBase.com called it a pilgrimage that “mends heads, saves souls and wipes out worries.”

And according to the All Good’s founder and producer, Tim Walter, it’s a celebration of community spirit, the transcendent apogee of the summer.

That “warm feeling is really what we go after,” Walther said recently. “We have all good intentions, and we invite all good vibes.”