La Chamba performs at the Otis Mountain Get Down in September 2019 in Elizabethtown. (Provided photo — Alvin Reiner, Press-Republican)

ELIZABETHTOWN — Throughout Friday afternoon, Sept. 6, and well into the night came one music lover after another, dragging sleeping bags, tents and provisions to a former ski slope to partake in the fourth annual Otis Mountain Get Down.

With the addition of approximately 3,000 concert-goers, the population of Elizabethtown was close to tripled that weekend, Sept. 6 to 8.

Commencing Friday afternoon and continuing through the wee hours of Sunday, bands or sole performers provided an eclectic menu of sound which raced up the hillside and drifted to the valley below.

As for the music, there was La Chamba with psychedelic electric guitar and Afro-Latin rhythm, Meatbodies playing in an undulating lo-fi tone, Spooky Mansion delivering surf-soul rock and roll, and Not My Sister whose offerings were reminiscent of the Andrew Sisters and the trio of Parton, Ronstadt and Harris.

Other activities were available such as mountain biking, hiking and a plethora of games.

Artwork covered the grounds, from Charlie Hudson’s forest to the plywood cut-outs by Jackson Tupper that covered the hillside. There was also the Papula de Gaia by Bryce Peterson, aka Bryce Bot, in which a piece of moss was powered by water being pumped into a bladder so that it expanded and contracted.

“We’re really excited about how everything went this year” said promoter Zach Allott.