All Sweat Productions is excited to announce the lineup for a brand new music festival, Sweatstock, celebrating the 50th anniversary of Woodstock. The inaugural festival will be held August 16-17 at Murphy Park in East Moline, IL.

Taking the lead on talent, Alan Sweet and Chrissy Boyer of All Sweat Productions have stacked the lineup with 100+ Quad Cities area standout musicians that will recreate the legendary performances of Woodstock and perform sets of original music.

The festival will include tribute performances to Jimi Hendrix, Santana, Janis Joplin & Joe Cocker, Creedance Clearwater Revival, Sly & the Family Stone, The Who, the Grateful Dead, The Band, Johnny Winter and many more. Local acts that will also feature their original music include: Joe Marcinek, The Velies, Rude Punch, The Candymakers, Jordan Danielsen, Jason Carlson and the Whole Damn Band, Condor and Jaybird, The Dawn and Charlotte Boyer.

All Sweat Productions live music project was started in 2016 as an effort to bring a wide variety of local QC musicians together and has already played tribute to iconic artists such as Queen, The Beatles’ “Abbey Road”, Prince’s “Purple Rain”, The Band’s “Last Waltz”, as well as soul legends like Aretha Franklin and James Brown.

“We are incredibly excited to build on the success of the All Sweat tribute shows and launch this new festival on the 50th anniversary of Woodstock,” said Alan Sweet, All Sweat Productions. “We have extraordinary talent in the Quad Cities and Sweatstock will be a great outlet to grow our music community and bring people together over a shared passion.”

Sweatstock is set to be the second major event for the new Murphy Park, located at The Bend in East Moline.“W

hen Murphy Park was designed, this is the type of event that we dreamed of offering to the community through our space,” said Tyler Murphy, Murphy Park Events. “We are thrilled to partner on Sweatstock, showcasing the vibrancy of the local music scene and see our vision for the park come to life.”Gates will open at 4 p.m. on Friday, August 16 and Noon on Saturday, August 17. Advanced tickets for Sweatstock will be released at 10 a.m. Central Time on Friday, June 28. Ticket options include $15 for  single day access and $25 for a weekend pass.

The Hyatt Place is offering a special nightly rate of $124, on August 16-17, that will include one weekend pass to Sweatstock per night's stay. Patrons can redeem by using the promo code SWEAT online at www.hyatt.com.

“From the collaboration of local musicians, to the production of the festival by Quad Citizens, Sweatstock is a special event for our community,“ said Kate Dale, Hive Event Consulting. “It’s been amazing to see the transformation happening in East Moline and we are looking forward to putting on a signature event that contributes to our region‘s growth and celebrates the talent that exists in the Quad Cities.“

Sweatstock is produced by All Sweat Productions, Hive Event Consulting and Murphy Park Events along with partners Townsquare Media, Rexroat Sound, Sexton Ford and Yabba Dabbas House of Glass. 

After an impressive 17-year run, Camp Euforia, one of Iowa’s longest running independent music festivals will host its final acts this summer. The last blast celebration will be held July 16-18, 2020 on the treasured land of Jerry’s Farm in Lone Tree, Iowa.

The band made the announcement on social media:

A whirlwind of emotions surrounds us as we announce the final year for Camp Euforia. Seventeen years ago, not one of us knew of the magic that would become of Jerry’s Farm.

In the years that followed, this fan appreciation party came to represent so much more than a group of Eufórquestra fans getting together for a good time. Jerry’s Farm is our roots, it’s the land that built everlasting friendships and celebrated the creative energy of hundreds of musicians in the Midwest and across the country.

Planning and producing a festival of this scale is no easy feat. It is a monumental effort that we’ve been able to accomplish each year with an unbelievable support system and volunteers. We’ve always set our standards high and put a ton of energy into producing a festival that we can all be proud of. With that in mind, we’ve made the difficult decision to take a step back. We feel like it is time to close the CE chapter on a high note in order to be able to focus our creative energy on other passions and pursuits.

We are planning an epic celebration for the 2020 fest. We’ll have a lineup jam-packed with CE alum that have helped make the festival what it is today. We can’t wait for Jerry’s Farm to be overflowing with the love of all of our friends and family. #CE17 is about to be a party we will never forget.

See ya out on the farm this summer!

Eric Quiner, Mike Tallman, Austin Zaletel and Matt Wright

Tickets for Camp Euforia will be released at 10 a.m. Central Time on Friday, February 14, beginning with special early bird pricing of $90 for a two-day festival pass and $110 to include the Thursday night pre-party. Following early bird pricing, all ticket prices increase. RV parking passes are available in advance for $70.

For additional festival details, please visit: www.campeuforia.com

Camp Euforia is produced by Cornfed Productions, Eufórquestra and Hive Event Consulting.

In what was set to be its final run, Camp Euforia, one of Iowa’s longest running independent music festivals will postpone the final year of the festival due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Organizers announced the cancellation of the 2020 festival with a request for fans to help raise funds for artists impacted by the pandemic.

“Over the last 17 years, we’ve been fortunate to be able to build this incredible community of artists and music lovers,” says Eric Quiner. “While we are disappointed that we cannot hold the final festival this summer as planned, we are hopeful that we can still be a platform to raise funds for artists who have been profoundly impacted by the pandemic. We are looking forward to gathering with our Camp Euforia family in 2021 to give the festival the proper sendoff it deserves.”

Through a video and a letter to fans, the following announcement was shared on Friday:

Dear Euforians:

Along with the rest of the world and entire music industry, we’ve been monitoring the current health crisis closely over the last few months, holding out hope that we’d be able to celebrate our final year of Camp Euforia with you all on Jerry’s Farm in July 2020.  However, after careful consideration and weighing out all of the options, we can’t in good conscience put our fans, staff, artists, vendors, volunteers and families at risk, as your health and safety is our number one priority.

With that said, it is with heavy hearts to announce that the 17th annual Camp Euforia, scheduled for July 16-18, 2020, has been cancelled.

We realize this announcement comes with much sadness and many questions, as we had previously announced that 2020 would be the final year of Camp Euforia before closing the curtain on Iowa’s longest running independent music festival. We had also promised you a line-up full of many of our long-standing Camp Euforia fam-bands, who have supported and been a part of this festival over the years, but we never got a chance to announce this year’s line-up due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

We decided that there is no way we are going to let Camp Euforia close out due to a pandemic, so we want to promise you one thing: We will be back! We can’t imagine Camp Euforia ending without a proper send-off and celebration, so stay tuned for dates and plans for the final year of Camp Euforia to be held in 2021 with the best damn line-up of Iowa-based and Camp-fam-bands for our final year.

What’s next?

As many of you know, the arts and live music industry has been profoundly impacted by the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Which is why we’d like to ask those who are financially able to make a donation to the festival. With your donation, we will pay the artists scheduled for the 2020 festival and hope to be able to cover some non-refundable costs associated with putting on an event of this size.

This pandemic has left all musicians without their primary income, unable to tour and play in front of large crowds for the foreseeable future. And while we never released the line-up officially, the large majority of the bands confirmed for this year’s festival are based right here in Iowa, and they need our help. So with that, we’d like to try and fulfill some - if not all - of their contracted rates, so that they can help put food on their tables and be in a position to come back and play for us still in 2021.

Of course we realize that not all of you will be able to afford such a donation, as many of us are struggling just the same with loss of jobs and income ourselves.  We will fulfill any refund requests desired.

2020 Camp Euforia Ticket holders will be emailed the following options:

Donate Your Ticket:  Let Camp Euforia keep your ticket money so that we can turn around and help Iowa-based artists and other Euforia fam-bands so that we can continue to support them in these trying times.  If this is your desire to let us keep your ticket fees in full, no further action is needed on your end, and we greatly appreciate your support!  Note: If you haven’t purchased your ticket to Camp Euforia yet for this year and would still like to make a donation to the cause, please visit the Camp Euforia 2020 Event Page on Eventbrite to select the “Donation” Ticket Option on the Tickets Page.

Request a Refund: You may request a refund for your Camp Euforia 2020 ticket(s) before June 30, 2020.  Details on how to request a refund will be emailed to all current ticket holders, as well as posted on www.campeuforia.com. Ticket holders will have the option to refund their tickets in full, or can choose to make a partial donation + partial refund to help fund festival expenses and payments for CE 2020 artists.

We too are saddened that this is the outcome for this year, but we are in this together. Let us use this time to reflect on what’s important in our lives, do our part in keeping each other safe, and let our shared love for community and music be the inspiration that guides us through this tough time.

Be safe and well, and we look forward to reuniting with you all for one last hurrah on Jerry’s Farm next year!

Eric Quiner, Festival Director 

Euforquestra 

& Camp Euforia Staff