Festivals

With little more than a month to go before the inaugural Thunder On The Mountain, preparations are heating up at Mulberry Mountain in anticipation of the nation’s premier Country Music and Camping Festival.  The lineup features headliners Toby Keith, Luke Bryan, and

Purple Hatter’s Ball has added Emancipator and Eddie Roberts’ West Coast Sounds to the already stellar line-up along with a Crunchay Campground Stage & Crunchay Sunday in the Music Hall, showcasing 20 innovative electronic acts.

Friday, August 30th to Sunday, September 1st, The 4th annual NORTH COAST MUSIC FESTIVAL (NCMF) returns to Chicago's Union Park! This year’s headliners include the legendary WU-TANG CLAN, celebrating the 20th anniversary of their seminal album

It's surprising that Tea Leaf Green hasn't ever been to NedFest, since they would have fit well with so many of our artists over the years. So we are very pleased to finally get this mainstay of the jamband world up to a new venue in a state that they dearly love. For this band, the word "jamband" only describes the way they play, not what they play.

On Friday, June 28 and Saturday, June 29, the heartland’s newest major music and art festivalKANROCKSAS MUSIC AND ARTS FESTIVAL-- will return to the Kansas Speedway® in Kansas City, KS. The festival is a music, art, camping and cultural experience with a world-class curated selection of electronic, indie, urban, pop and singer/songwriter artists that define modern rock.

NXNE (North by Northeast) announces the first wave of programming as part of NXNE Film. Presented in partnership with Hot Docs, NXNE Film will screen more than 30 movies from June 13-16 at the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema and at alternative spaces throughout the city of Toronto.

MerleFest, offering the feel of both music festival and family reunion, drew nearly 76,000 fans to North Wilkesboro, North Carolina during April 25-28, 2013.  Beginning in 1988 as a tribute to the life of Merle Watson, this year’s event also served as a celebration of the lives of Merle’s parents, “Doc” and Rosa Lee, who passed away in 2012.

Sled Island is proud to announce the lineup for the 7th annual independent music and arts festival featuring over 250 bands from diverse genres performing across 30+ venues concentrated in the downtown core and surrounding areas in Calgary, Alberta from June 19 - 22, 2013.

AC Entertainment is proud to announce the initial line up for the 2013 Mountain Oasis Electronic Music Summit, slated for the weekend of October 25 - 27 in beautiful downtown Asheville, NC. Nine Inch Nails, Bassnectar, and Pretty Lights will headline the three-day weekend, which also will feature a performance by Neutral Milk Hotel, who have not played live since 1998.

With an already stellar line up announced, the 18th Annual Gathering of The Vibes Festival is thrilled to welcome Blues Traveler, guitar impresario Steve Kimock & funky keyboard godfather Bernie Worrell, Jason Crosby Band, von Grey, Twiddle, and local festival favorites The Kind Buds, to its already impressive four-day lineup.

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