South Shore brand Levitate does more than host one of New England’s biggest music festivals — Levitate Music and Arts Festival — every summer. The community-oriented outlet makes its own apparel, curates children’s camps and has a nonprofit organization that helps fund people’s dreams around music, the arts and the outdoors. “[We] just try to push what Levitate is all about and share it with as many people as possible,” Levitate owner Dan Hassett told MassLive.
This year, Levitate Music and Arts Festival will take place from July 5-7 at the Marshfield Fairgrounds at 140 Main St. in Marshfield. Before Levitate started selling tickets to roughly 20,000 festival goers every year, the outlet sold surfboards to South Shore natives out of its shop in Marshfield’s town center.
“It really significantly grew,” Hassett said of Levitate’s name. “It’s been a really cool opportunity for all of us to kind of work around something that has a mission that we care about.” Looking to share his love of surfing with the local community, Levitate Surf Shop was founded as a community-oriented surf shop in 2003 by Bob Pollard.
“It was really kind of a special thing in Marshfield because all these kids had this outlet that was an alternative to all the other options at the time,” Hassett explained. “It was a very accepting environment. And a lot of these creative people are really into Levitate.
” Hassett and Pollard met while both were working at The Mill Wharf in.