North Carolina-raised, Grammy Award-winning, and multi-platinum hip-hop artist J. Cole is proud to announce that Dreamville Festival will return next spring while expanding to two days on Saturday, April 2 and Sunday, April 3, 2022. Tickets go on sale this coming Friday, October 1 at 10:00 a.m. ET at www.DreamvilleFest.com.

As one of the most popular and largest artist-curated music festivals in the country, fans can look forward to a weekend celebration curated by Cole himself where he invites some of his favorite artists and collaborators to perform in his home state of North Carolina. Stay tuned as the 2022 music lineup will be revealed soon.

The festival will bring together local residents and travelers from across the globe to gather together and enjoy incredible music performances while at the historic Dorothea Dix Park, Raleigh’s largest city park.  Having grown up in nearby Fayetteville, Cole and his Dreamville team hope to once again shine a light on the special place that has helped to shape him into the successful and creative artist he is today.

“It’s exciting to finally be back. Ever since we wrapped our first fest, we’ve been waiting to get back to the park with our Dreamville family," said Dreamville Partner and Festival President, Adam Roy. “We had to come back bigger and better than before. With the fest moving to two days, Dreamville Festival is about to become the festival our team has always dreamt about. We want this to grow into one of the premier annual music experiences in the country.”

Two-day GA and VIP passes will be available for purchase beginning at 10:00 a.m. ET this Friday, October 1 on www.DreamvilleFest.com. Fans are encouraged to purchase tickets quickly once available as the previous festival event sold out in advance and prices will increase as the event dates draw near.

A special ticket pre-sale will also be available for fans starting at 10:00 a.m. ET on Tuesday, September 28. In order to take advantage of this special early-bird access, fans must first sign-up for the official Dreamville Festival newsletter at www.DreamvilleFest.com.

As safety is the number one priority for festival organizers, Dreamville Festival is implementing new entry rules to help keep patrons, artists, and staff safe. In order to gain entry to the event, the festival will require proof of COVID-19 vaccinations or negative COVID-19 test results that are obtained within 72 hours of attending the event. More information on the new safety guidelines and entry rules can be found online at www.DreamvilleFest.com.

A portion of proceeds from the 2022 event will be donated to the official Dreamville Festival charity partners, the Dreamville Foundation and Dorothea Dix Park Conservancy. For more information on these organizations, please visit www.Dreamville.com and www.DixPark.org.

Originally co-founded and curated by J. Cole, the inaugural festival event in April 2019 played host to a massive celebration of local culture, music, food, and art while welcoming over 40,000 guests from across the globe at the sold-out event including attendees hailing from all 50 states and more than 10 international countries. Notable performances featured a headlining performance from Cole plus SZA, Big Sean, 21 Savage, 6LACK, Nelly, Teyana Taylor, Rapsody, and Mez, in addition to the entire Dreamville Records roster including J.I.D, Ari Lennox, EarthGang, Bas, Cozz, Lute, and Omen.

Texas-born, GRAMMY Award-nominated, multi-platinum hip-hop artist and business mogul, Travis Scott has just announced the full music lineup for his third annual Astroworld Festival. In celebration, Scott has also released a very limited number of additional tickets to the event, which are on sale now at AstroworldFest.com.

The largest artist-curated music festival in the world, as well as the largest music event in Scott’s hometown of Houston, will return soon to NRG Park on Friday, November 5, and Saturday, November 6. Similar to years past, fans at Astroworld will soon be treated to a festival experience like no other as every detail is an extension of Scott’s personal creativity and unique vision.

WEEKEND MUSIC LINEUP

Scott will soon welcome some of the most sought-after names in hip-hop and R&B to perform, alongside a number of critically acclaimed and creative artists that Scott personally hand-picked to join in on the fall festivities.

The full music lineup is listed below in A-Z order and available online at AstroworldFest.com:

• 21 Savage

• Baby Keem

• Bad Bunny

• BIA

• Chief Keef

• Don Toliver

• Earth, Wind & Fire

• Houston All-Stars

• Lil Baby

• Master P

• Roddy Ricch

• Sheck Wes

• Sofaygo

• SZA

• Teezo Touchdown

• Toro Y Moi

• Travis Scott **

• Tame Impala

• Young Thug

• Yves Tumor

**Denotes festival headliner and founder

LIMITED TICKET SALE

To commemorate the lineup news, the festival has also released today a limited number of two-day GA tickets to the 2021 event, which are on sale now at AstroworldFest.com. Prices begin at $349.99, although fans are encouraged to purchase immediately as ticket supply is extremely limited.

During the general ticket on-sale last spring, the entire weekend event sold out in under one hour without a music performance lineup attached. Scott’s festival has sold out in advance of the lineup reveal every year since inception, although 2021 set the record for the fastest sell-out yet.

FAN EXPERIENCE

Continuing a nod to the NRG’s previous tenant (Six Flags AstroWorld), the festival has again invested significant real estate to build out an amusement park and carnival footprint for the 2021 event.  This year’s fest will feature more than 30 custom carnival games and rides, including a roller coaster, Ferris wheel, and bumper cars - all of which are designed to entertain fans when they need a break from music.

Fans participating in the carnival games will have the opportunity to win one of 100+ different custom Astroworld prizes, which include limited-edition items that won’t be available anywhere else.

Participating carnival sponsors Raising Cane’s, Nike’s Jordan, and the Houston Astros have all kicked in grand prizes as well. These special prizes include the opportunity to eat free Cane’s for a year, score a pair of limited-edition Jordans, or win tickets to a future baseball game.

EVENT BACKGROUND

Over 100,000 fans from across the globe are slated to attend the third-year music festival, which returns to Scott's hometown of Houston. The 2021 event features an expanded two-day format on Friday, November 5 and Saturday, November 6 due to overwhelming demand from fans.

With a new creative theme, “Open Your Eyes To A Whole New Universe”, the critically-acclaimed rapper turned mainstream culture phenom will once again curate and produce his very own larger-than-life multi-stage music festival in his hometown of Houston, while also bringing back the beloved spirit and nostalgia of the legendary and now-defunct amusement park – AstroWorld ­– that Scott visited countless times as a child.

During the festival’s last iteration in November 2019, the one-day event played host to over 50,000 fans from across the globe for Scott’s special celebration of hip-hop, pop music, and Houston culture. As Scott himself solely curates and hand-selects the festival’s music lineup, past festival performances have featured some of today’s most sought-after music acts beyond just hip-hop and R&B including Post Malone, Rosalia, Pharrell Williams, Lil Wayne, Megan Thee Stallion, Young Thug, and Playboi Carti, among many others.

A portion of proceeds from the event will be donated to the festival’s official charity partner, Cactus Jack Foundation. Founded by Scott, the nonprofit organization seeks to empower and enrich the lives of youth by providing access to education and creative resources to ensure long-term success.

For more information, as well as to stay up-to-date on all Astroworld Festival news and announcements, please visit the following channels, as well as watch the official preview trailer for the 2021 music festival via YouTube:

• WEBSITE: AstroworldFest.com

• FACEBOOK: @AstroworldFest

• INSTAGRAM: @AstroworldFest

• TWITTER: @AstroworldFest

Lights All Night (LAN) is proud to reveal the full music lineup for its 11th edition. The longest-running EDM festival in Texas returns to Dallas on December 30 and 31 with a limited number of two-day and single-day tickets are available for purchase at LightsAllNight.com.

After a sold-out 10th anniversary celebration in 2019, LAN will make its triumphant return this December as one of the country’s largest independent music festivals while once again featuring performances from the world’s most sought-after dance and electronic music acts. 40,000+ guests from across the globe are expected to attend the two-day event, which will return for a sixth year to Dallas Market Hall located just minutes from downtown Dallas.

To kick off the festivities on Thursday night, dance music heavyweights Deadmau5 and Malaa have both been tapped to perform alongside previously announced headliners Illenium, one of Billboard’s Top Dance/Electronic Artists of the 2010s; Philadelphia-born dubstep DJ Subtronics; UK-born bass house DJ/producer JOYRYDE; and Los Angeles’s very own heaven-trap duo SLANDER – all of whom have previously performed at the Texas festival with the exception of SLANDER and JOYRYDE whose upcoming performance will mark their first time gracing the LAN stage.

On the following day Friday, December 31, fans will be ringing in the new year with a very special New Year’s Eve celebration featuring a number of festival alumni including Above & Beyond (2013, 2016), DJ Snake (2014), and Madeon (2012), plus Canada’s own former Juno Award winners Loud Luxury; three-piece dance group Black Tiger Sex Machine; and the newly added house LA-based DJ/producer OMNOM.

Over 35 dance music acts from Texas and across the globe are set to perform at this year’s event. The current music lineup broken down per day and in A-Z order is included below, while also available online at LightsAllNight.com:

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 30

    1788 - L

    4B

    CharlestheFirst **

    Deadmau5 **

    Eazybaked b2b Sumthin Sumthin

    EFFIN

    Habstrakt

    Hellbound

    Holly

    Illenium

    Jansten

    JOYRYDE

    Malaa **

    Nik P

    SLANDER

    Subtronics

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31

    Above & Beyond

    Apashe

    ARMNHMR

    Black Tiger Sex Machine (BTSM)

    Blunts & Blondes

    Chee

    Cheyenne Giles

    Devault

    DJ Snake

    Grum

    J. Worra

    JESSICA AUDIFFRED

    Left/Right

    Loud Luxury

    Madeon (DJ Set)

    Oddprophet

    OMNOM **

    SVDDEN DEATH

    Zander

**Denotes new lineup additions

Two-day and single-day GA tickets to the 2021 festival are available for sale at LightsAllNight.com, although a very limited number of two-day and single-day VIP passes still remain. Fans are encouraged to act fast as tickets are expected to sell out in advance, similar to years past.

LAN would like to thank the partners and sponsors responsible for helping to make this year’s event possible include Heineken, Monaco Vodka & Cocktails, Mike’s HARDER Lemonade, and Reign Total Body Fuel from Monster Energy.

A portion of proceeds from this year’s event will be donated to LAN’s official charity partner DFW Rescue Me, a foster-based pet rescue nonprofit based in the Dallas area.

Stay tuned as additional details surrounding the year-end music festival will be announced in the coming weeks, including the onsite lineup of vendors, merchants, and visual artists as well as the onsite map and layout updates.

For more information about Lights All Night, please visit the following channels:

    WEBSITE:     www.lightsallnight.com

    FACEBOOK:     www.facebook.com/LightsAllNight

    TWITTER:     www.twitter.com/lightsallnight

    INSTAGRAM:     www.instagram.com/lightsallnight

Noise Pop Festival, San Francisco Bay Area’s premier independent music and arts festival, is proud to reveal the initial lineup of music performers slated to perform at next year’s event taking place February 21-27, 2022. Festival badges are on sale now with individual concert tickets available tomorrow, Friday, November 5 at 10 a.m. PT. Here. 

Noise Pop Festival will once again transform the entire SF Bay Area into sprawling festival grounds as multiple events including music performances, art shows, film screenings, happy hours, after-hour parties, and more will take place nightly over the course of a week. Participating venues include historic and landmark spaces like Great American Music Hall, Bottom of the Hill, The Chapel, Rickshaw Stop, Swedish American Hall, August Hall, The New Parish, Gray Area, Public Works, Cornerstone, and 1015 Folsom, among others.

Similar to years past, the city-wide celebration of independent culture will offer attendees ample opportunities for music discovery with a meticulously curated lineup featuring exciting up-and-coming and underground artists performing alongside some of the most sought-after musicians touring today. Notable standouts on the initial music lineup include a number of Bay Area homegrown acts including Guapdad 4000, King Woman, and Papercuts, in addition to several acts playing SF for the very first time like Vegyn, Arooj Aftab, and India Jordan.

In typical Noise Pop fashion, the flagship festival will bring to the Bay Area a number of special FOMO-inducing performances. These special shows include The Microphones' performing in the Bay Area for the first time in 20 years, in addition to intimate shows from Alex G and Dorian Electra at August Hall. The 2022 event will also feature a pair of classic indie-rock full-album plays, with Titus Andronicus celebrating the (belated) 10th anniversary of The Monitor, and a rare show from iconic indie pop-rock outfit The Drums as they perform their classic album Portamento. 

“This year’s festival is all about going back to our roots - celebrating local undercards alongside indie rock favorites while pushing the boundaries of traditional genre norms and creating some really special shows that fans would never expect, and hopefully never forget,” said Noise Pop Industries President, Stacy Horne. “Personally, it’s great to be back working with the Noise Pop team and I really look forward to reviving their beloved flagship festival after it was forced to take a year off in 2021. All I can say to fans is buy your tickets early because this is only phase one and we have tons of more exciting acts to be announced very soon.”

All badges grant access to all general admission (non-reserved seating) music concerts, badge-only happy hours, and some very special events to be announced, as well as all film screening events throughout the weeklong festival. Fans are encouraged to act fast as badge pricing will increase as the festival approaches with each wave of new performer announcements. 

Noise Pop Festival marks the latest offering from the Noise Pop Industries team who for nearly three decades have become cultural arbiters and community advocates of the local SF music scene while promoting thousands of concerts and creating unique festival properties. Although in-person events were put on pause due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Noise Pop team has continued to innovate and identify new opportunities for growth over the past year.

The Noise Pop team would like to personally thank all of the partners and sponsors involved in the 2022 festival including Sierra Nevada, White Claw, Coastal Sun, BMI, Hotel Kabuki, and DoTheBay.

Noise Pop Festival Lineup:

• Alex G

• The Drums performing “Portamento”

• Dorian Electra

• King Woman

• The Microphones

• Guapdad 4000

• VTSS

• Vegyn

• Quasi

• Titus Andronicus performing “The Monitor”

• VanJess

• LSDXOXO

• Arooj Aftab

• William Basinski

• Hand Habits

• Moor Mother

• MIKE

• Alice Phoebe Lou

• Makaya McCraven

• Nate Smith + KINFOLK

• Irreversible Entanglements

• Tomberlin

• HUNNY

• India Jordan

• Ian Sweet

• Topaz Jones

• Smerz

• The Greeting Committee

• MAN ON MAN

• Naked Giants

• Papercuts

• Exes

• John-Robert

• Tipling Rock

• Hello Yello

• Spiritual Cramp

• Ragana

• Bnny

• Faten Kanaan

• Enumclaw

Noise Pop Festival is excited to announce an expanded music lineup as the San Francisco Bay Area’s premier independent music and arts festival returns for its 29th year on February 21-27, 2022. Festival badges are on sale now with individual concert tickets becoming available for purchase this coming Friday, January 14 at 10 a.m. PT at www.noisepopfest.com.

After previously announcing more than 40 acts to the 2022 lineup earlier this fall, local festival organizers have returned with even more exciting up-and-coming and underground artists locked in to perform as well as some of the most sought-after musicians touring today. Notable standouts on the initial music lineup included intimate sets from Alex G and Dorian Electra; plus Bay Area homegrown acts like King Woman and Papercuts; and several extra memorable shows including The Microphones' first Bay Area performance in 20 years, Titus Andronicus celebrating the (belated) 10th anniversary of The Monitor, and The Drums performing their classic album Portamento.

New music additions revealed today include a headlining set from legendary singer/songwriter Jeff Tweedy of the band Wilco, who will perform at The Fillmore to kick off the week-long celebration of music on Monday, February 21; as well as the oft-outspoken and internationally acclaimed emcee Azealia Banks, who will help close out the 2022 Festival on Sunday night. This concert is preceded by a special afternoon event on that same Sunday, February 27 featuring San Francisco’s very own and accomplished skateboarder-turned-music producer Tommy Guerrero, who will be hosting an afternoon BBQ grill-out while performing a Sunday matinee show.

Other additions include critically beloved UK producer and musician Kamaal Williams, who most recently played in SF at the 2019 edition of Noise Pop Festival; LA-based pianist and producer John Carroll Kirby, who is perhaps best known for his work supporting superstars like Frank Ocean, Solange, Norah Jones, and Miley Cyrus; Chinese-Japanese-American hyperpop meme-queen Lil Mariko; pop-synth songstress and producer Uffie; rising Atlanta-based rapper Bali Baby; and LA-based electronic producer Lara Sarkissian, who is also the founder of one of Oakland's most beloved music collectives called Club Chai; along with several more acts with Bay Area ties such as Lalin St. Juste, Experimental Housewife, Boy Scouts, and Provoker.

Several international acts have also been tapped to perform at next year’s festival, each of whom is performing for their very first time in the SF Bay Area. These acts include Irish-Scottish experimentalist Sega Bodega who just released his first two albums in back-to-back years to critical acclaim; Lastlings, an Australian electronic pop duo, led by siblings Amy and Josh Dowdle; Brazilian-Norwegian jazz singer/songwriter Charlotte Dos Santos; and Montreal-based electro-acoustic, multi-instrumentalist Ouri, who is opening for Arooj Aftab, a singer and composer with Pakistani roots that is currently nominated for the Best New Artist and Best Global Music Performance at the 2022 GRAMMY Awards.

Noise Pop will also soon host the North American festival stage debut for HE.SHE.THEY. on Saturday, February 26 at Public Works. HE.SHE.THEY. is an international event series, fashion house, and record label with diversity and inclusion in the DNA of everything it does with the belief that through representation, spaces can and should be made welcoming to people of all races, sexualities, gender identities, and beyond. 2022 festival performers include VTSS, LSDXOXO, and India Jordan, although former guest DJs at their parties have included the likes of Maya Jane Coles, Honey Dijon, and Ellen Allien as the event has taken over spaces globally from Berlin to Mumbai and everywhere in between.

Following the success of past collaborations, Noise Pop has also partnered once again with SFJAZZ to host a series of intimate concerts on February 24 through 27 inside the Joe Henderson Lab. Performers will include jazz pianists Connie Han and The Damani Rhodes Experience, as well as Oakland’s own jazz vocalist Valerie Troutt. SFJAZZ and festival organizers are also working together to co-present a special concert with performances from Moor Mother and Irreversible Entanglements at The New Parish in Oakland on Wednesday, February 23.

On pace to be one of the Festival’s most diverse and discovery-driven music lineups to date, the current 2022 lineup is listed below and available online at www.noisepopfest.com:

Azealia Banks  ****

Jeff Tweedy ****

Alex G

The Drums (Performing Portamento)

Dorian Electra

King Woman

The Microphones

Kamaal Williams  ****

VTSS

Vegyn

Quasi

Titus Andronicus (Performing The Monitor)

LSDXOXO

Arooj Aftab

Tommy Guerrero  ****

Sega Bodega    ****

William Basinski

Lastlings ****

Hand Habits

Moor Mother

Alice Phoebe Lou

Makaya McCraven

Nate Smith + KINFOLK

Irreversible Entanglements

Bali Baby  ****

Tomberlin

Smerz

John Carroll Kirby ****

Charlotte Dos Santos ****

HUNNY

Uffie ****

India Jordan

Ian Sweet

Topaz Jones

Partiboi69 ****

Lil Mariko ****

Tanukichan ****

The Greeting Committee

Lalin St Juste ****

Rituals of Mine (DJ Set) ****

Lara Sarkissian ****

Chrissy ****

Experimental Housewife ****

Space Ghost  ****

Chuck Gunn ****

Boy Scouts (Solo) ****

MAN ON MAN

Naked Giants

Papercuts

Debit ****

Foie Gras ****

Connie Han ****

John-Robert

Tipling Rock

Valerie Troutt ****

The Damani Rhodes Experience ****

Hello Yello

Provoker ****

BOAN ****

Spiritual Cramp

Blues Lawyer ****

Grumpster ****

Ouri ****

Tyler Holmes ****

Swsh ****

Piano Rain ****

Body Double ****

My Heart An Inverted Flame ****

The Acharis ****

Toner ****

DJ Aaron Axelsen ****

Sour Widows ****

Maggie Gently ****

Death Tour ****

The Undercurrent ****

Oh The Danger! ****

Buzzed Lightbeer ****

Sarchasm ****

Chime School ****

suade ****

Ragana

Bnny

OSTON ****

Faten Kanaan

Enumclaw

Maria BC ****

The Rare Occasions ****

Ray and Paul Holmberg ****

**** DENOTES NEW LINEUP ADDITIONS

A very limited number of festival Badges still remain on sale now for just $199 although tickets to newly announced individual concerts will become available for purchase starting Friday, January 14 at 10 a.m. PT via www.noisepopfest.com. All badges grant access to all general admission (non-reserved seating) music concerts, badge-only happy hours, and some very special events to be announced, as well as all film screening events throughout the weeklong festival.

In just a few short weeks, Noise Pop Festival will soon once again transform the greater SF Bay Area into sprawling festival grounds as multiple events take place nightly over the course of a week including music performances, art shows, film screenings, happy hours, after-hour parties, and more. Participating venues include historic and landmark spaces like Great American Music Hall, Bottom of the Hill, The Chapel, Rickshaw Stop, Swedish American Hall, August Hall, The New Parish, Gray Area, Public Works, Cornerstone, and 1015 Folsom, among others.

The Noise Pop team would like to personally thank all of the sponsors involved in the 2022 festival including Sierra Nevada Brewing, White Claw Hard Seltzer, Coastal Sun Cannabis, BMI, and Hotel Kabuki, as well as media partners DoTheBay, KQED Live, and BARTable.

San Francisco-based artist Megan Badilla has been tapped to create and design the official artwork for this year’s festival. Learn more about this local illustrator’s work at meganbadilla.com.

Stay tuned for more festival announcements through the official festival website at www.noisepopfest.com. Learn more about Noise Pop by visiting NoisePop.com, as well as follow along on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter for future news and events.

After a two-year hiatus, Sol Blume, Sacramento's largest festival dedicated to R&B and soul music, is back as it expands to two days on Saturday, April 30, and Sunday, May 1. GA and VIP tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. PT this Monday, January 31 at SolBlume.com.

Considered one of the country's top emerging music festivals since its inception in 2018, Sol Blume is known for curating unique lineups featuring today's most sought-after R&B, soul, and hip-hop acts. The 2022 lineup is no different with a combination of award-winning singers, songwriters, emerging stars, and more - many of whom are performing in Sacramento for the first time ever.

Headlining performances on Saturday night feature a pair of internationally acclaimed singer-songwriters with Jorja Smith and PartyNextDoor, followed by headlining performances from two powerful female songstresses Jhené Aiko and Summer Walker who will help close out the festival on Sunday night.

The rest of this year’s stacked music lineup includes artists like Thundercat, Alina Baraz, Syd, SiR, Lucky Daye, Smino, Blxst, Majid Jordan, and more. View the complete lineup at SolBlume.com:

SATURDAY, APRIL 30

Jorja Smith

PartyNextDoor

Alina Baraz

Majid Jordan

SiR

Lucky Daye

Kiana Ledé

DVSN

Foursheé

Sinéad Harnett

Lauren Jauregui

D Smoke

Buddy

Yeek

Kirby

Tiana Major9

Ojerime

Ilham

Terry Presume

Daisy

SUNDAY, MAY 1

Jhené Aiko

Summer Walker

Thundercat

Syd

Blxst

Smino

Tinashe

Victoria Monet

Bino Rideaux

Rexx Life Raj

Tink

Westside Boogie

Joyce Wrice

Jenevieve

María Isabel

Lonr.

Maeta

Loony

Available for purchase beginning at 10 a.m. PT on Monday, January 31 at SolBlume.com, two-day GA tickets start at just $200, while pricing for weekend VIP passes will kick off at $400. Interested fans are encouraged to purchase their tickets soon as prices will continue to increase as the event dates draw near.

The springtime outdoor music festival will mark the third year for Sol Blume, although the 2022 edition will soon expand to two days following years of fan feedback and consumer demand.

This year’s event will also offer attendees an expanded footprint as the fest relocates to Discovery Park. Located at the confluence of the American and Sacramento Rivers near downtown Sacramento, Discovery Park offers over 300 acres of sprawling outdoor parkland and a new future home for Sol Blume.

"We're excited for the opportunity to continue to bring a carefully curated & unique R&B experience to Sacramento. We took two years off due to the pandemic, which gave us more time to evolve Sol Blume further," said Festival Founder Fornai Kumeh. “We’ve listened to our Blumers, and this year we are grateful to embrace our new home at Sacramento's historic Discovery Park and expand to a two-day event. Sol Blume 2022 marks year three and the best yet, from the lineup to the venue and overall vibe and experience. We can't wait to Blume in Sacramento this Spring."

Stay tuned for more Sol Blume news coming soon including more details on the festival layout, performance schedule, food lineup, and more.

The Mill Valley Chamber is elated to announce today the launch of the Mill Valley Music Festival, a brand new multi-genre, all-ages one-day event that will take place near downtown Mill Valley on Saturday, May 7. GA and VIP tickets to this new boutique music festival will go on sale this Friday, February 18 at 10:00 a.m. PT via MillValleyMusicFest.com.

The new MVMF will soon transform Friends Field, located adjacent to the Mill Valley Community Center, into a sprawling festival grove for a one-day, all-ages celebration of local arts and culture. Nestled below the slopes of Mount Tamalpais, this new destination festival looks to serve as Mill Valley’s annual signature event while drawing attention to the longstanding cultural contributions of Mill Valley throughout the greater Bay Area and far beyond.

In addition to multi-talented musical performances featuring a diverse array of national touring acts and local musicians alike, fans from across the country can begin to plan for a weekend adventure as they visit this charming hidden gem and Redwood tree-lined village that is considered one of the most picturesque mountain towns in all of Northern California.

None other than Grammy Award-nominated singer/songwriter Ben Harper and his longtime band The Innocent Criminals have been tapped to kick off the new festival, which marks one of Harper’s only US dates currently announced for the first half of this year.

Lettuce, one of the great funk-jam bands of the modern age, is also set to perform, alongside other popular acts like Nashville’s very own psychedelic-folk rockstar Liz Cooper; Latin Grammy Award-winning Venezuelan disco-funk trio Los Amigos Invisibles; and the Bay Area-based La Doña, a Latin-Alternative music project from Cecilia Cassandra Peña-Govea and considered to be one of the most sought-after new acts from the Golden State.

The full music lineup for this year’s inaugural MVMF is listed below and available online at MillValleyMusicFest.com:

    Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals

    Lettuce

    Liz Cooper

    Los Amigos Invisibles

    La Doña

“There’s no doubt that these past few years have been incredibly rough for all of us,” says Jim Welte, director of the Chamber. “We can’t wait to celebrate the resilience of Mill Valley, Marin County, and the entire Bay Area, and the vital role the Bay plays in the vibrancy of the Golden State - all set to an amazing, day-long soundtrack of fantastic music and an abundance of incredible food, drink, and art while spending an afternoon with your best friends and ones you’ve yet to meet.”

Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. PT on Friday, February 18 at MillValleyMusicFest.com. General Admission tickets start at just $90, and VIP passes will be available for $180. Discount-priced $25 tickets are also available for children under 12 years old if accompanied by a parent or guardian.

VIP ticket-holders will be treated to a truly elevated festival-going experience with notable perks including premier viewing areas of the main stage, private bars and comfy lounge areas, exclusive vendors, and premium bathroom facilities. Interested fans are encouraged to purchase their tickets soon because only a limited number of tickets will be made available for purchase, while the Chamber looks to create a more elevated, curated, and intimate festival-going experience for guests of all ages.

In an effort to support and give back directly to the local Mill Valley community, organizers will donate a portion of proceeds to a number of local institutions including Kiddo!, Mill Valley Schools Community Foundation, which raises funds for arts education and programs in five public elementary schools and one middle school. The 2022 festival will also support the City of Mill Valley’s Public Art Program and a number of other year-round initiatives spearheaded by the Mill Valley Chamber.

The Mill Valley Chamber team would like to thank all of the sponsors responsible for bringing the inaugural festival to life including Bank of Marin, Nice Guys Delivery, and assembly.

Organizers would also like to show appreciation to the legendary Bay Area-based artist Lil Tuffy, who created and designed the official artwork for this year’s festival. Learn more about his work at Lil-Tuffy.com.

Make sure to stay tuned for more festival announcements through the festival’s official website at MillValleyMusicFest.com including the full performance schedule, onsite amenities, food vendors, and more. Learn more about the festival organizers by visiting MillValley.org, as well as follow along on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter at @MVChamber for future news and events.

Stern Grove Festival, one of the longest-running outdoor music festivals in the country, is proud to reveal the 2022 music lineup for its 85th annual summer concert season. The ten-week event series continues to be free for all attendees of all ages, although fans must first RSVP in advance to reserve their spot for each concert at www.sterngrove.org with online reservations to the season opener beginning on Tuesday, May 31.

Kicking off on Sunday, June 12, Stern Grove will make its highly-anticipated return with a music lineup as eclectic and diverse as the city it calls home. With a continued emphasis on diversity and inclusivity, Stern Grove Festival will once again offer a wide range of musical performances where the sounds of rock, hip-hop, jazz, folk, classical, funk, and blues all define the concert-going experience for music lovers from across the Bay Area and far beyond.

The 2022 schedule is available below and online at www.sterngrove.org:

June 12: Tower of Power, Too $hort

June 19: Toro Y Moi, Hello Yello

June 26: Liz Phair, Madi Diaz

July 3: Cold War Kids, Geographer

July 10: Old Crow Medicine Show, Molly Tuttle

July 17: Cat Power, Spelling

July 24: LeAnn Rimes, Amythyst Kiah

July 31: San Francisco Symphony

August 7: Taj Mahal, Monophonics

August 14: The Big Picnic featuring Phil Lesh & Friends, Midnight North 

The 2022 concert season kicks off June 12 with a rare co-headlining performance from two legendary artists with deep Bay Area roots – the iconic soul/funk/R&B outfit Tower of Power and the multi-platinum selling emcee Too $hort. This will mark a long-awaited performance from the two acts who were originally set to headline the 2021 Festival’s Big Picnic before it was unexpectedly cut short due to extensive water damage to the Grove.

The next concert on June 19 features one of most of the decade's most influential musicians Toro Y Moi from the creative mind of Oakland-resident Chaz Bear, who is also releasing his highly-anticipated seventh studio album Mahal this coming Friday; followed by a performance on June 26 featuring 90s indie rockstar Liz Phair, who just released her latest album last summer following an 11-year hiatus from recording music.

The month of July will then begin with a Fourth of July weekend concert featuring alt-rockers Cold War Kids who just released the band's final album of their New Age Norms trilogy to rave reviews; followed by shows from Nashville-based Americana string band Old Crow Medicine Show on July 10 as the group preps for the release of their next album later this year; acclaimed indie songstress Cat Power on July 17, who just released her latest collection of cover songs this past January; and iconic county music singer LeAnn Rimes on July 24.

On July 31, Stern Grove Festival will also welcome to its stage a returning favorite, the San Francisco Symphony (SFS) led by conductor Daniel Bartholomew-Poyser. Since its inaugural concert in 1938, Stern Grove Festival has partnered every year with the SFS to offer a world-class performance to the public, which also marks the only opportunity for fans to see an admission-free performance by the SFS.

Multi-accomplished blues musician Taj Mahal will perform on Sunday, August 7. Fans that afternoon will be treated to a medley of hits across the blues pioneer’s 50+ year musical career.

The 2022 concert season concludes on Sunday, August 14 with the Festival’s annual fundraiser, The Big Picnic, featuring Phil Lesh and Friends, which is fronted by none other than one of the original founding members of the Grateful Dead. This season-ending Big Picnic fundraiser will once again help to raise funds in support of the Festival’s mission to provide admission-free concerts and arts education programs for the residents of the Bay Area, with a limited number of tables available for purchase today. For more information on table reservations, interested donors can email [email protected].

“We are excited to highlight so many legendary Bay Area artists in our 85th season and also to continue our trend in recent years of presenting more and more high profile artists at Stern Grove Festival.  From my perspective, this is our best lineup ever, and we truly hope that everyone can find at least one artist that appeals to them over the course of our summer season, ” said Executive Director Bob Fiedler.

All concerts for the 2022 season will begin at 2:00 p.m. PT at Sigmund Stern Grove, a historic park and concert meadow located at 19th Avenue and Sloat Boulevard in the city’s Sunset District that offers an unparalleled outdoor setting for music lovers of all ages. Although the Grove experienced extensive damage last fall due to a major water main rupture and while all renovations are not yet complete, the original site has now been approved for in-person audiences again this summer.

Admission to each concert will continue to remain free to the public, although the Festival will once again implement an online ticket reservation system which made its successful debut last season. At 2:00 p.m. PT exactly 12 days prior to each event, an online portal will be opened through www.sterngrove.org to offer free passes on a first-come, first-served basis. For, example, tickets to the June 12 concert will be available to reserve on Tuesday, March 31 at 2:00 p.m. PT.

Stern Grove Festival will also be live streaming nearly all of its shows this year in order to reach as many music fans as possible, especially those unable to attend in-person. Stay tuned for more details surrounding the virtual live stream experience, which will kick off in conjunction with each Sunday concert starting at 2:00 p.m. PT via www.sterngrove.org.

Stern Grove Festival would like to thank the 2022 sponsors for their support, including San Francisco Recreation & Parks Department, Lisa & Douglas Goldman Fund, Grants for the Arts, William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, Waymo, Bloomberg, John & Marcia Goldman Foundation, Kaiser Permanente, National Endowment for the Arts, The Bernard Osher Foundation, Anchor Brewing, William G. Gilmore Foundation, Xfinity, The Fairmont Hotel, Mixhalo, and Sound on Stage. Local media partners also include KPIX-TV, SF Media Co., and SFMTA.

Stay tuned as more details surrounding the 2022 season will be announced in the coming weeks, including additional ticket reservation sign-ups, weekly food truck lineups, and more.

Learn more at www.sterngrove.org, and make sure to follow along on social media including Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

The independent producers behind Sol Blume are excited to announce the return this fall of the largest afrobeats festival in the country, Lost In Riddim (LIR), for an expanded two-day celebration of music, culture and community. Two-day GA and VIP tickets will be available for purchase next Monday, July 25 via LostInRiddim.com.

After a successful inaugural event last fall, the festival is relocating to a new home just southwest of the original location in Sacramento - Lake Cunningham Park in San Jose, California. The outdoor event will feature a much larger footprint with two main stages offering fans non-overlapping performances, in addition to a third and much more intimate tent stage with daylong DJ sets.

More attendees than ever will be able to join in this year’s festivities as the new location in San Jose also offers more activations, immersive art, vendors and room for dancing amongst fellow music lovers while inside the festival, as well as more transportation and housing options for out-of-town travelers.

As an independent music festival cofounded by a pair of first-generation African immigrants, Lost in Riddim is proud to present for a second consecutive year a lineup made up entirely of African, Caribbean and Black music artists. Although the festival will remain centered around afrobeats music, even more international acts have been tapped to join in this year’s cultural celebration offering fans a larger curated selection of worldly sounds.  

“As proud children of immigrant parents, we created Lost In Riddim because we wanted to offer a festival experience more authentic to ourselves and our culture. Something that speaks to us not only as music fans, but who we are as people,” said Fornati Kumeh, festival cofounder and talent buyer. “With a new and larger location, not to mention this incredible lineup of international artists locked in to perform, I’m expecting this to be a weekend for the record books. We really hope fans worldwide will come show out at Lost In Riddim this October.”

Organizers this year tapped three of the biggest afrobeats artists in the world - Wizkid, Burna Boy and Davido - to headline this year’s festival in celebration of Nigerian Independence Day Weekend taking place that same weekend. Other Nigerian acts traveling half-way around the world to perform at LIR include Rema, Kizz Daniel, Fireboy DML, Tiwa Savage, Maleek Berry, and Ayra Starr, among others.

Similar to last year’s inaugural event, the festival will also highlight other popular genres of African, Caribbean and Black-American music including reggae, dancehall, afro-fusion, hip-hop, R&B, and more. Notable performers outside of the world of afrobeats include international superstars like Ella Mai and Skepta, both of whom hail from the U.K. A number of Jamaican acts have also been added to the bill including Sean Paul and Koffee, in addition hip-hop acts like the Grammy Award-winning rapper Wale who hails from Washington D.C.

Two-day tickets will go on sale later this week at Noon PT on Monday, July 25 via LostInRiddim.com with GA passes available for just $225 and weekend VIP passes starting at $450. Interested fans should purchase tickets today as prices will continue to increase as the festival date approaches, as well as there are a limited quantity of total passes available for purchase and no single-day tickets will be sold.

A special ticket pre-sale will also be available for fans from 9:00 to 10:00 a.m. PT that same morning on Monday, July 25. In order to take advantage of this limited offer, fans must first sign-up and pre-register online at LostInRiddim.com before Friday.

Lost in Riddim continues to be led by an independent Sacramento-based music promotions company ENT Legends responsible for producing popular concerts and festivals across Northern California. The team’s flagship festival property - R&B, soul, and hip-hop music festival Sol Blume - recently celebrated a third year while hosting over 40,000 attendees at Discovery Park and featuring an all-female headlining lineup with Summer Walker, Jhené Aiko, Jorja Smith, and Jazmine Sullivan, among more than 30 other performers.

Stay tuned for more Lost in Riddim news dropping soon, including a daily performance schedule, new map layout, vendor village lineup, and more. For more festival information and to stay up to date on future Lost in Riddim news, please visit the following channels:

    WEBSITE:     www.LostInRiddim.com

    INSTAGRAM:     @LostInRiddim

    FACEBOOK:     @LostInRiddim

    TWITTER:     @LostInRiddim

Noise Pop Festival, San Francisco Bay Area’s premier independent music and arts festival, is proud to reveal the initial lineup of music performers scheduled to perform at next year’s festival taking place February 20-26, 2023. Festival badges are on sale now with individual concert tickets becoming available for purchase this Friday, November 18 at 10:00 a.m. PT via www.noisepopfest.com.

For nearly three decades, Noise Pop Industries has served as a cultural arbiter and community advocate within the local SF music scene while promoting thousands of concerts and creating unique festival properties across Northern California. Next spring marks the 30th anniversary since the launch of the team’s flagship festival brand - Noise Pop Festival - which will soon transform the entire SF Bay Area into sprawling festival grounds with music concerts, art shows, film screenings, happy hours, secret after-hour parties, and more taking place nightly over the course of a full week in February.

Similar to years past, the 2023 lineup will ultimately offer fans a meticulously curated selection of iconic indie-rock darlings, boundary-defying up-and-coming acts, rare reunion shows, anniversary album plays, and Bay Area debuts from international performers, along with more than 100 local performers found here in the Bay Area. The initial Phase 1 music lineup is listed below and available online at www.noisepopfest.com.

Kicking off the festival on February 20, organizers will welcome a very special opening night celebration at Great American Music Hall featuring performances from several 90s throwback acts and cult favorites like Chisel, Everyone Asked About You, and 20 Minute Loop; while punk rockers FIDLAR performs an intimate kick-off show at Bottom of the Hill; and dream-pop band No Vacation returns to SF for an unofficial homecoming performance at The Chapel.

Later that week on Wednesday night, indie rock trio Yo La Tengo will perform at The Fillmore in support of their latest album This Stupid World being released next February, the band’s first full-length record since 2020; as homegrown San Jose’s own Covet will play their biggest Bay Area show to date to celebrate their own upcoming album release.

On the following night, February 23, a pair of beloved festival alumni will return to perform at Noise Pop including electric-pop trio STRFKR headlining The UC Theatre as punk rock visionary Bob Mould offers fans a special solo electric set at The Chapel.

Friday will mark a total takeover of the Bay Area with more than eight concerts taking place across the city that night including festival headlining performances from Boy Harsher as the electro-pop duo performs at the three-story mega-dance club 1015 Folsom; and San Jose-born lo-fi rockers Duster, who host their biggest Bay Area show to date at The Regency Ballroom. Rising R&B singer and SF-native Christian Kuria will also perform at The New Parish; Canadian-Nepali singer/songwriter Curtis Waters will headline a special concert at Rickshaw Stop presented in partnership with Popscene; and Grammy-Award-winning William Edward Phillips will bring his electronic music project Tourist to Public Works for a late-night dance party.

Additional phase one lineup highlights include a four-night residency at SFJAZZ Center's Joe Henderson Lab featuring James Brandon Lewis and local favorites Nate Mercereau and Satya, plus other acts to be announced soon; as well as the highly anticipated return of the international event series HE.SHE.THEY. with special guests like UNIIQU3, Chippy Nonstop, Chloé Robinson, among others. The festival will also mark the San Francisco debuts for acts including Ted Leo's pre-Pharmacists band, Chisel; as well as LA-based musician Aryan Ashtiani’s underground synth-pop project Mareux; in addition to the very first North American show for the Singaporean rock outfit Sobs.

Participating venues next February will once again include a number of historic concert halls and landmark venues like Great American Music Hall, Bottom of the Hill, The Chapel, Rickshaw Stop, The Regency Ballroom, August Hall, The New Parish, Gray Area, Public Works, and 1015 Folsom, among others. Entry to all of these iconic spaces will soon be available to those who purchase weekend festival badges, in addition to ticket-buyers at individual festival concerts.

“We are fortunate to be celebrating our 30th anniversary this year. It's been a continuous joy and privilege for us to make our small mark on the history of music and culture in the Bay Area during this time” said Kevin Arnold, Founder and CEO of Noise Pop Industries.  

Weekend badges are on sale now although tickets to each of the newly announced concerts will become available for purchase starting this Friday, November 18 at 10:00 a.m. PT via www.noisepopfest.com. All badges grant access to all general admission (non-reserved seating) music concerts, happy hours, after-hours, and film screening events throughout the weeklong festival, although fans are encouraged to act fast as badges are limited and pricing will increase with each wave of new performer announcements.

This year's festival's artwork was designed by none other than Shepard Fairey, considered one of today’s most accomplished and sought-after contemporary artists. Learn more about his incredible artwork by visiting his company Obey Giant at www.obeygiant.com.

Stay tuned for more festival announcements through the official festival website at www.noisepopfest.com. Any sponsors looking to get involved in next year’s event are encouraged to contact [email protected].  

Learn more about Noise Pop by visiting NoisePop.com.

Entrepreneur and founder Romeo Ussery is proud to announce the launch of his latest endeavor, Outside Live, a new events production and promotions group based in Sacramento and serving fans across Northern California. The new organization will kick 2023 with a brand new festival concept debuting in Sacramento called Estamos Vivos Carnival on Sunday, February 19.

As a proud minority and independently-owned organization, the Outside Live team seeks to offer music lovers of all ages highly-curated festival-going experiences at each of its festivals starting with the inaugural Estamos Vivos Carnival, which will highlight some of today’s most sought-after Latin music performers, as well as iconic genre trailblazers and classic throwback acts featuring the sounds of reggaeton, cumbia, rap, corridos, and more.

Year 1 headliners include a pair of reggaeton pioneers and Latin Grammy Award-winners, Tito “El Bambino” and De La Ghetto, who will also be joined by two of today’s hottest up-and-coming Latin music stars including Cuban-born Corrido singer/songwriter and Latin trap rapper Ovi as well as Miami-born songstress Mariah Angeliq, who is commonly referred to “La Princesa de Miami” (The Princess of Miami).

Additional acts slated to perform on Sunday, February 19 include a number of platinum-selling recording Latin music artists whose catalogs of chart-topping hits dominated radio waves and weekend parties alike from the 1990s through today including Baby Bash, MC Magic, Paula DeAndra, Frankie J, and Nina Sky.

Estamos Vivos Carnival’s inaugural music lineup is listed below, with GA ($80+) and VIP ($160+) tickets available for purchase at www.OutsideLive.com:

    Tito “El Bambino”

    De La Ghetto

    Ovi

    Mariah Angeliq

    Baby Bash

    MC Magic

    Paula DeAnda

    Frankie J

    Nina Sky

This new festival event will take place at Southside Park Amphitheater, a 19.9-acre public park located in the southwest corner of downtown Sacramento featuring ample greenspace, although the festival will purposefully limit festival attendance next spring with the hopes of providing a safe and positive experience for first-time patrons. There are many transportation and dining options, as well as hotel accommodations available in the surrounding area, which the organizers hope will also provide a positive economic impact on the local Sacramento community.

Founder Romeo Ussery said, “This is truly a dream come true. Following in my father’s footsteps by joining the live music industry is a long-time effort of mine that has finally come true, and I couldn’t be more excited at the opportunity. I’m grateful to surround myself with some of the best in the business so we can work together to put on some amazing shows for fans here in Northern California and beyond. Get ready because Estamos Vivos is only the beginning.”

Fans are encouraged to stay tuned as more details surrounding the new fan experience at Estamos Vivos Carnival will be revealed in the near future, along with lineup and ticket-on-sale information surrounding an entirely new two-day festival concept taking place May 2023 in the greater Bay Area.

With more Carnivals and other Outside Live projects set to be revealed in early 2023, fans should visit the following channels to learn more about their upcoming schedule of concerts and festival events:

    WEBSITE: www.OutsideLive.com

    INSTAGRAM: @outsidelive.ent

Noise Pop Festival, San Francisco Bay Area’s premier independent music and arts festival, is proud to reveal an expanded phase 2 music lineup for its 30th anniversary as the multi-venue festival returns February 20-26, 2023. Tickets to each of these newly announced concerts are on sale now via www.noisepopfest.com in addition to full festival badges.

Serving as a cultural arbiter and community advocate within the local arts scene for three decades while promoting thousands of concerts and creating unique festival properties across Northern California, Noise Pop looks forward to celebrating the 30th anniversary of the team’s flagship festival brand - Noise Pop Festival - this coming February. The 2023 lineup will ultimately offer fans a meticulously curated selection of iconic indie-rock darlings, boundary-defying up-and-coming acts, rare reunion shows, anniversary album plays, and Bay Area debuts from international performers, along with more than 100 local performers found here in the Bay Area.

Newly announced performers include Junglepussy as the acclaimed female MC headlines The New Parish on February 26; Canadian DJ/producers Jacques Greene as well as Yu Su who are joining the bill for the Tourist showcase at Public Works on February 24; Sara Landry being tapped for the HE.SHE.THEY lineup at Public Works on February 25; Tommy Guerrero as the accomplished skateboarder-turned-music producer returns for a second consecutive year to perform at the hometown festival; and Spellling who will help close out the week-long concert series on Sunday night at Great American Music Hall.

Plus, the long-running Bay Area comedy showcase "The #HellaFunny Comedy Night” makes its Noise Pop Festival debut featuring Stroy Moyd, Chris Riggins, Allison Hooker, Emily Van Dyke, and some special to-be-announced guests at The New Parish on February 25, although other non-music and alternative programming including film screenings, art shows, happy hours, and more will be revealed in the coming days.

Each of these new phase 2 acts will join previously announced festival performers including Boy Harsher, Duster, Y La Tengo, STRFKR, Bob Mould, Tourist, and San Jose’s own Covet, among many others. Additional festival events range from a four-night residency at SFJAZZ Center's Joe Henderson Lab to the highly anticipated return of the international event series HE.SHE.THEY. to the very first North American show for the Singaporean rock outfit Sobs, and so much more. 

Plus, Noise Pop has organized a very special opening night celebration on February 20 at Great American Music Hall featuring reunion performances from several 90s throwback acts and cult favorites like Chisel, Everyone Asked About You, and 20 Minute Loop; while punk rockers FIDLAR performs an intimate kick-off show at Bottom of the Hill; and dream-pop band No Vacation returns to SF for an unofficial homecoming performance at The Chapel.

Weekend badges are on sale now, along with tickets to each individual concert via www.noisepopfest.com. All badges grant access to all general admission (non-reserved seating) music concerts, happy hours, after-hours, and film screening events throughout the weeklong festival, although fans are encouraged to act fast as badges are limited and pricing will increase with each wave of new performer announcements.

“With only a few more weeks until Noise Pop Festival gets underway, this is an exciting time for our team as we gear up for the 30th anniversary. Noise Pop 30 will offer attendees an eclectic lineup unlike any other found here in America featuring a number of creative artists who aren’t afraid to push boundaries while they bring together fans from all walks of life. This year’s lineup has a little something for everyone, but stay tuned as we have a ton of local acts still to announce, plus new events like film screenings, art shows, and more on the way,” said James Lopez, Noise Pop’s Senior Talent Buyer.

Over the course of a full week this coming February, Noise Pop Festival will once again transform the entire SF Bay Area each night into sprawling festival grounds with music concerts, art shows, film screenings, happy hours, secret after-hour parties, and more taking place all across the city. Participating venues next February will once again include a number of historic concert halls and landmark venues like Great American Music Hall, Bottom of the Hill, The Chapel, Rickshaw Stop, The Regency Ballroom, August Hall, The New Parish, The Ivy Room, Public Works, and 1015 Folsom, among others.

This year's festival's artwork was designed by none other than Shepard Fairey, considered one of today’s most accomplished and sought-after contemporary artists. Learn more about his incredible artwork by visiting his company Obey Giant at www.obeygiant.com.

Stay tuned for more festival announcements through the official festival website at www.noisepopfest.com

Organizers behind one of the largest annual R&B music festivals in the country are announcing today that Sol Blume will officially return to Sacramento, California on Saturday, April 29 and Sunday, April 30.

After expanding to two days and relocating to a new home at Discovery Park near downtown Sacramento last spring, the R&B, soul, and hip-hop music festival successfully hosted over 40,000 total attendees from across the country as well as half a dozen international countries spanning four continents.

Having now cemented itself as one of the most highly-anticipated music festivals of the year, Sol Blume will look to build upon the last year’s success with a slew of new fan offerings that go beyond the main stage music performances to include a variety of family-friendly activities, wellness experiences, immersive art activations, and local vendors from across the Sacramento region – all while creating a multi-million dollar economic impact within the greater Sacramento region for which the festival calls home.

At the upcoming two-day, multi-stage outdoor celebration, local residents and out-of-town travelers alike will soon gather together to enjoy incredible music performances featuring some of the most sought-after R&B, soul, and hip-hop acts in the world – many of whom will be performing in Sacramento for the first time ever. 

Stay tuned as the 2023 music lineup and ticket sale will be announced very soon. For more Sol Blume news and announcements, visit the following channels:

    WEBSITE:     SolBlume.com
    INSTAGRAM:     @solblume
    FACEBOOK:     @solblume
    TWITTER:     @solblume

The Mill Valley Chamber is announcing today the full music lineup for its annual springtime Mill Valley Music Festival, which expands to two days this year on May 13-14.

2-Day GA (starting at $219+) a 2-Day GA PLUS ticket (starting at $339+) and 2-Day VIP tickets (starting at $449) will go on sale to the general public later today, January 24 at noon PT via MillValleyMusicFest.com, although fans are encouraged to act fast as the initial batch of blind presale tickets sold out in advance similar to last year’s inaugural festival.

Attendees of all ages at this year’s two-day weekend celebration that remains chock full of music, art, and local culture will be treated to headlining performances from a pair of NorCal rock legends – Oakland-born singer/songwriter Michael Franti will be joined by his long-standing band Spearhead, while alt-rock pioneers Cake formed in nearby Sacramento.

New Orleans’ very own Grammy Award-nominated and former NPR Tiny Desk Contest winner Tank and the Bangas will also grace the Mill Valley main stage, as will Jerry Harrison and Adrian Belew’s REMAIN IN LIGHT, a special concert series featuring former members of Talking Heads; Seattle seven-piece The Dip; retro-soul revivalist Durand Jones; southern soul singer Black Joe Lewis and his multi-talented backing band The Honeybears; and Grammy-nominated Valerie June, a folk-soul singer known for her unique blend of Appalachian music.

Rounding out the 2023 lineup includes Oakland’s own African psych-rock band Orchestra Gold and multi-piece Mill Valley student residents The Alive – both of whom further the festival's commitment to supporting local arts and culture. The full music lineup is listed below and available online at MillValleyMusicFest.com:

2023 MILL VALLEY MUSIC FESTIVAL MUSIC LINEUP **

CAKE

Michael Franti & Spearhead

Jerry Harrison & Adrian Belew - REMAIN IN LIGHT

Tank and the Bangas

Durand Jones

The Dip

Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears

Valerie June

Orchestra Gold

The Alive

** Daily performance schedule to be released at a later date

“With a commitment to creativity, our team worked its tail off to create something new and exciting in this town we love. Overwhelmed by the massive response from our neighbors and Bay Area friends, I knew our team had to really raise the bar for 2023 and we couldn’t be more proud of how this year’s lineup came together,” said Jim Welte, director of the Mill Valley Chamber. “This new group of performers is sure to not only leave a longstanding impression on festival attendees but will also entice new travelers to visit our incredible community. Come springtime, we hope the whole Bay Area will make a weekend trip to explore and see for themselves what makes Mill Valley such a special and unique place. As an organization, we continue to champion our community’s multi-faceted arts & culture, while creating innovative opportunities to connect people.”

Following a successful inaugural festival launch last spring that sold out in advance, Mill Valley Music Festival will return to Friends Field, located adjacent to the Mill Valley Community Center, transforming the community space into a sprawling festival grove. The event will once again offer access to a large and curated assortment of Marin County’s best artisans, food vendors, and philanthropic organizations, plus family-friendly activities, immersive art installations, local craft beer, and so much more.

This May, fans from across the country can look forward to a weekend adventure in Mill Valley as they visit this charming hidden gem and Redwood tree-lined destination that is less than an hour from the epicenter of San Francisco and considered one of the most picturesque mountain towns in all of California while nestled below the slopes of Mount Tamalpais. This annual springtime festival serves as one of the city of Mill Valley’s signature events, drawing attention to the longstanding cultural contributions of the city throughout the greater Bay Area and driving a positive economic impact for the local community.

For more festival announcements, please visit the festival’s official website at MillValleyMusicFest.com while following along on Facebook and Instagram at @millvalleymusicfest.

Organizers of the second Annual Mill Valley Music Festival are proud to reveal the daily lineup as the independent music festival returns to the San Francisco Bay Area this May 13-14.

To celebrate the lineup news, Mill Valley Music Festival has also released single-day tickets that will be available for purchase tomorrow, Tuesday, February 28 at 10:00 a.m. PT via MillValleyMusicFest.com, starting at $139+ for GA passes. Two-day GA wristbands remain on sale as well for $259+ after having sold-out of the first two tiers earlier this year.

Single-day VIP passes will also be on sale tomorrow for $279+, as well as two-day VIP Passes although the initial batch sold-out in advance. Special VIP perks this year include upgraded viewing areas of the main stage; premium restrooms; access to VIP-only bars and food trucks; expedited entry into the fest; and in-and-out privileges.

New this year, fans can enjoy the many benefits of GA+ passes that include a dedicated entrance lane into the festival, premium bathroom facilities, and in-and-out privileges at the front gates. A limited number of GA+ passes are on sale with two-day and one-day passes being made available for $369+ and $199+, respectively.

Kicking off the weekend as the festival’s Saturday headliner is globally recognized musician and philanthropist Michael Franti accompanied by his longtime band Spearhead. Before capping off the night with an unforgettable main stage performance, attendees can expect Saturday to bring the soul to Mill Valley with sets from New Orleans’ Grammy-nominated Tank and the Bangas; Seattle seven-piece The Dip; soulful blues-leaning Black Joe & The Honeybears; and the deeply spiritual, dance-inducing ensemble Orchestra Gold from Oakland.

Closing out the weekend celebration with a Sunday night headlining performance is postmodern rock band CAKE, musical pioneers originally formed near Sacramento. Attendees can also catch incredible shows from artists including REMAIN IN LIGHT featuring the legendary Jerry Harrison and Adrian Belew, former members of the Talking Heads; retro-soul revivalist Durand Jones; Appalachian influenced folk singer Valerie June; and Tam High School rockers The Alive.

The full music lineup is listed below and available online at MillValleyMusicFest.com:

Saturday, MAY 13, 2023

Michael Franti & Spearhead

Tank and The Bangas

The Dip

Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears

Orchestra Gold

Sunday, MAY 14, 2023

CAKE

Jerry Harrison & Adrian Belew: REMAIN IN LIGHT

Durand Jones

Valerie June

The Alive

On top of amazing music, attendees are welcomed to explore the best of what Mill Valley has to offer ranging from artisan food vendors, craft beer selections, an array of kids activities, a wellness retreat, and amazing art installations, as well as a dedicated focus on sustainability and conservation. Festival patrons are encouraged to bring out the whole family to take a spin around the festival’s popular roller rink, immerse themselves in remarkable art installations, and spend downtime in the children’s play area featuring a number of family-friendly activities.

For more festival announcements, please visit the festival’s official website at MillValleyMusicFest.com while following along on Facebook and Instagram at @millvalleymusicfest

Blue Note Napa is proud to announce the new music lineup for the 2023 Blue Note Summer Sessions concert series beginning May 19 through October. Tickets to the initial slate of events will go on sale this Thursday, March 9 at 10 a.m. PT via bluenotenapa.com, although more concerts will be rolled out in the near future.

After a successful two-year stint at an up-Valley winery, Blue Note Summer Sessions is relocating this summer to a new home in Napa Valley - Silverado Resort. Located just off the Silverado Trail in the heart of Napa Valley and a short scenic drive north of San Francisco, this enchanting NorCal retreat offers 1,200 rolling acres nestled between oak groves and vineyards while featuring luxurious accommodations with state-of-the-art business facilities, world-class dining, full-service spa experiences, and family-friendly recreational activities.

More attendees than ever will be able to join in this year’s Summer Sessions as the new concert location offers more seating, food and drink options, and room for dancing amongst fellow music lovers with a capacity of 1,500 guests per show in addition to more transportation and housing options for out-of-town travelers.

The outdoor event series will feature a new stage constructed within a tree-lined meadow above the 1st and 18th hole of Silverado’s PGA-certified championship golf course and just a short walk from the resort’s historic mansion, although the concert stage will not impede daily golf sessions for Silverado visitors.

As a proud independent concert promoter and venue operator, Blue Note Napa will soon present its most diverse and exciting Summer Sessions lineup to date with a highly curated selection of acts that includes chart-topping rock and country musicians, Grammy Award-winners, comedy heavyweights, plus some of the top jazz performers in the country.

“Napa has been known for quite some time for its world-class wine, over the last fifteen years it has also become known for its equally high-level culinary experience. Our goal is to bring the third pillar of the arts to Napa year-round and ensure it is known as a center for the finest of all types of world-class music,” said Blue Note Napa’s Managing Director Ken Tesler. “I hope all of our venues including the Blue Note Napa, the JaM Cellars Ballroom, our Summer Sessions, the Blue Note Jazz Festival, and finally Oxbow RiverStage together make that a reality.”  

The initial lineup of concerts slated for the Summer Sessions at Silverado Resort is listed below and available online at bluenotenapa.com:

Les Claypool's Fearless Flying Frog Brigade

May 19 / Doors 5:30 pm / Show 6:30 pm

Dwight Yoakam

May 20 / Doors 5:30PM / Show 7PM

Emmylou Harris

May 21 / Doors 5:30PM / Show 7PM

Chris Botti

June 3 / Two Sets: Doors 4:00PM / Show 5:30PM + Doors 7:30PM / Show 8:00PM

Rufus Wainwright

June 4 / Doors 5:30PM / Show 7:00PM

Brian Culbertson’s Jazz Getaway

June 8-10 / Doors 6:00PM / Show 7:00PM Each Night

June 8: Eric Darius and The Whispers

June 9: Con Funk Shun and Brian Culbertson featuring Marcus Anderson, Marqueal Jordan, and Jammin Jay Lamont

June 10: Pieces of A Dream and Brian Culbertson featuring Noel Gourdine

Tower of Power

June 11 / Doors: 5:30PM / Show: 7PM

Festival De Verano

with La Santa Cecilia, Las Cafeteras and La Misa Negra

June 16 / Doors 4:30PM / Show 6PM

St. Paul & the Broken Bones

June 18 / Doors 5:30PM / Show 7PM

An Evening With Judy Collins

July 7 / Doors 6:30PM / Show 8:00PM

Dave Koz and Friends

July 8 - 9 / Two Sets Each Night: Doors 4:00PM / Show 5:30PM + Doors 7:30PM / Show 8:00PM

July 8: Early Show + Late Show

July 9: Eary Show + Late Show

Marlon Wayans

July 15 / Doors 6:30PM / Show 8:00PM

One Night Of Queen

July 21 / Doors 6:30PM / Show 8:00PM

Carla Morrison

August 4 / Doors 5:30PM / Show 7:00PM

Marcus Miller

August 11 / Two Sets: Doors 4:00PM / Show 5:30PM + Doors 7:30PM / Show 8:00PM

Belinda Carlisle

August 18 / Doors 5:30PM / Show 7:00PM

Madeleine Peyroux

August 20 / Doors 6:30PM / Show 8:00PM

Andrew Dice Clay: Live In Concert

Sept 2 / Doors 6:30PM / Show 8:00PM

Three Dog Night

Sept 22 / Doors 6:30PM / Show 8:00PM

Kicking off the 2023 summer season in grand fashion, Blue Note Napa will welcome one of the greatest bassists of all time, Les Claypool, to Napa Valley on Friday, May 19 as he reunites with his Fearless Flying Frog Brigade after a 20-year hiatus which will include a full performance of Pink Floyd’s legendary album ‘Animals’ among other hits from their expansive catalog. The band features the son of Pink Floyd icon Roger Waters, Harry Waters, as well as the Brigade’s debut of John Lennon’s son, Sean Lennon.

Grammy Award-winning country music star-turned-accomplished actor and director Dwight Yoakam will then perform the next night on May 20; followed by Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter Emmylou Harris performing on May 21 to close out the opening weekend.

The Summer Sessions will return later in June beginning with Jazz phenom Chris Botti who returns for the third straight year on June 3; followed by grammy-nominated contemporary pop singer/songwriter and classical savant Rufus Wainwright the next night on June 4. Multi-talented jazz-funk artist Brian Culbertson takes over the Silverado Resort’s outdoor stage for a three-night Jazz Getaway concert residency beginning June 8 through 10; while Oakland’s very own legendary funk band Tower of Power performs on June 11.

To close out the month of June, Summer Sessions will welcome the debut of Festival De Verano, a Latin alternative music mini-festival featuring LA-based rockers La Santa Cecilia and Las Cafeteras, as well as Oakland-based La Misa Negra; followed by St. Paul & The Broken Bones as the eight-piece Birmingham, Alabama–based rock and soul outfit stops by on Saturday, June 19.

Beginning in July, gifted folk songwriter Judy Collins will stop by Blue Note Napa’s Summer Sessions for a special performance on Friday, July 7 as multi-platinum-selling saxophonist Dave Koz will perform a two-night stint the next nights on July 8-9; followed by the ever-funny standup comedian and film/TV actor Marlan Wayans on Saturday, July 15 performing in support of his new Netflix stand-up special “God Loves Me”; and One Night Of Queen, a popular touring 2-hour stage show paying tribute to iconic UK rock band Queen, set to perform the following weekend on Friday, July 21.

Latin Grammy Award-winner Carla Morrison will kick off the month of August with an August 4 concert, in addition to Jazz bassist Marcus Miller, perhaps best known for starting his career as an in-demand session player and member of Miles’ Davis band, who will take the Silverado Resort stage on Friday, August 11. The next weekend features two female-fronted concerts including former Go-Go’s popstar Belinda Carlisle on Friday, August 18, and Madeleine Peyroux on Sunday, August 20 as the jazz singer-songwriter continues to perform in support of her latest critically-acclaimed album “Careless Love”.

Rounding up the final month of the series is one of New York’s most notorious comedians, Andrew Dice Clay set to also take over the Summer Sessions stage on Saturday, September 2 as the standup comic celebrates over 40 years of comedy; while the award-winning slick and soulful trio Three Dog Night closes out the 2023 summer series two weeks later on Friday, September 22.

Tickets to each of these new concerts will be available for purchase starting Thursday, March 9 at 10:00 a.m. PT via bluenotenapa.com.

Ample paid parking is available adjacent to the venue, with more parking ticket information on the Blue Note Napa website. Upgrades to the overall culinary experience with a new slate of vendors featuring a rotating selection of local offerings will be also revealed closer to each show date.

Stay tuned as additional Summer Sessions at Silverado Resort concerts will be announced in the coming weeks. For additional news and announcements, visit the following channels:

    WEBSITE:     bluenotenapa.com

    INSTAGRAM:     @bluenotenapa

    FACEBOOK:     @bluenotenapa

One of America’s fast-growing independent concert promotions and venue operations group, Blue Note Napa, is proud to announce the newly extended music lineup for the 2023 Summer Sessions at Silverado Resort concert series beginning May through October. Tickets to previously announced concerts are on sale now at bluenotenapa.com with newly announced events on sale this Friday, March 31 at 10:00 a.m. PT.

After a successful two summer run featuring music artists from across the globe, Blue Note Napa is expanding its Summer Sessions concert series while relocating to a new larger home at Silverado Resort. This year’s concert lineup will include a highly curated selection of acts that includes chart-topping rock and country musicians, Grammy Award-winners, comedy heavyweights, and, of course, some of the top jazz performers in the country.

First on the list of newly announced concerts is a special performance from multi-Grammy Award winner and songwriters’ hall of famer Don McClean. The rock legend is set to take the Blue Note Napa stage on June 2 as he celebrates 50 years and 50 million records sold of his classic song “American Pie”. Shows rounding out the month of June will include country singer-songwriter Jake Owen as the multi-platinum entertainer performs June 25.

Fans can then catch Heather McDonald, comedy savant as well as writer, producer, and podcaster as she visits the Summer Sessions stage on June 22. Come back the next day on Saturday, July 23, to see an impressive performance from talented multi-instrumentalist and genre-traversing indie rock phenomenon Andrew Bird.

Earlier in the season, Blue Note Napa will welcome one of the greatest bassists of all time, Les Claypool, to Napa Valley on Friday, May 19 to kick off the 2023 summer season in grand fashion as he reunites with his Fearless Flying Frog Brigade after a 20-year hiatus, which will include a full performance of Pink Floyd’s legendary album Animals among other hits from their expansive catalog. Grammy Award-winning country music star-turned-accomplished actor and director Dwight Yoakam will then perform the next night on May 20, followed by Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter Emmylou Harris performing on May 21 to close out the opening weekend.

The Summer Sessions will return in June and July with a diverse slate of performances from the likes of Chris Botti; Rufus Wainwright; Brian Culbertson, and Oakland’s very own legendary funk band Tower of Power plus Festival De Verano, a Latin alternative music mini-festival featuring LA-based rockers La Santa Cecilia, Las Cafeteras, and La Misa Negra; St. Paul & The Broken Jones; Judy Collins; Dave Koz; Marlan Wayans; and One Night Of Queen.

Latin Grammy Award-winner Carla Morrison will kick off the month of August, in addition to Jazz bassist Marcus Miller; Belinda Carlisle; and Madeleine Peyroux. Rounding up the final month of the series is one of New York’s most notorious comedians, Andrew Dice Clay as he takes over the Summer Sessions stage alongside the award-winning slick and soulful trio Three Dog Night who will wrap up the 2023 summer series.

Stay tuned as the final slate of Summer Sessions at Silverado Resort concerts will be announced in the coming weeks. For additional news and announcements, visit the following channels:

    WEBSITE:      bluenotenapa.com

    INSTAGRAM: @bluenotenapa

    FACEBOOK:   @bluenotenapa

North Carolina’s own J. Cole and his Dreamville team successfully kicked off their third annual Dreamville Festival this past weekend in Raleigh, welcoming 100,000 festival attendees from around the globe to his home state – including all 50 U.S. states and 23 countries across four continents – during the two-day outdoor music festival.

Dreamville fans of all ages were once again treated to performances from some of today’s most sought-after music acts ranging from award-winning global festival headliners alongside exciting up-and-comers bound for stardom. Keeping with tradition, the lineup and festival experiences were curated by the festival founder himself, J. Cole.

To close out the event in spectacular fashion, J. Cole’s Sunday set featured a never-before-seen collaborative festival concert with special guest Drake, with additional unannounced surprise guest performances from Lil Wayne, 21 Savage, and Lil Uzi Vert - all of which collectively offered festival-goers the concert of a lifetime headlined by two of the most acclaimed and accomplished performers of this generation.

Dreamville Festival 2023 also featured performances from international superstars including USHER, whose energetic set included a first-ever live festival performance of his smash hit “Good Love” with female rap duo City Girls among a medley of hits from his 20+ year illustrious career; and Burna Boy’s larger-than-life Day 2 music performance. Additional notable highlights include Summer Walker’s live announcement of her new upcoming EP, Clear 2:Soft Life while inviting labelmate 6lack to perform alongside her; a guest appearance from Ayra Starr during Bas’ set and more.

The two-day celebration also marked a rare reunion for Dreamville Records as J. Cole brought together the entire music roster to perform at the fest including Ari Lennox, Bas, J.I.D, EarthGang, Cozz and Omen, plus Lute who hails from nearby Charlotte - nearly all of whom joined J. Cole onstage for Sunday’s grand finale.

The festival continues to offer an opportunity for J. Cole brings together Dreamville fans worldwide each spring, while also providing a cultural and multi-million economic impact that lasts long after the festival wraps each spring. Attendees were offered a taste of the good life in North Carolina this weekend with dozens of local vendors spread across the Dix Park festival grounds - most of whom were based in the greater Triangle area.

While roaming the grounds, fans were able to immerse themselves in site-wide art installations; learn more about local community organizations along Nonprofit Row; enjoy surprise impromptu marching band performances; and ride the sky-high Ferris wheel offering unparalleled views of the city of Raleigh.

Leading up to the festival on Friday night, Dreamville and Amazon Music co-hosted a day-long educational conference at the Contemporary Art Museum of Raleigh (CAM Raleigh) centered around music production, promotion and songwriting, while kicking off 50 & Forever, the celebration of hip-hop’s 50th anniversary from Amazon Music. Presented by Rotation on Amazon Music and NC DNCR (The N.C. Department of Natural & Cultural Resources) with additional support from Beatclub, the all-ages event featured words from both executives and artists from Dreamville Records, as well as other award-winning producers, performers and industry experts like Timbaland, 9th Wonder, Brian "B.Dot" Miller, and more who shared insights into their journeys within the recording industry.

The festival team would also like to thank and show appreciation to all the 2023 partners and sponsors who helped make this year’s event possible including Rotation on Amazon and Amazon Music, who once again exclusively live-streamed the two-day event to fans throughout the world; as well as about-face, Bacardi, Everything Legendary, Google Pixel, Lemon Perfect, Monster Energy, Patron Tequila, Pepsi Zero Sugar, Starry, Smirnoff Ice, Tito’s Handmade Vodka, Vistaprint, and Visit Raleigh. Proceeds from this year’s event will go on to support charity partners, the Dreamville Foundation and Dorothea Dix Park Conservancy.  

Stay up-to-date on future Dreamville Festival news and announcements by visiting the following channels:

    WEBSITE:     www.DreamvilleFest.com

    INSTAGRAM:     @dreamvillefest

    FACEBOOK:     @dreamvillefest

    TWITTER:     @dreamvillefest

Stern Grove Festival, the oldest outdoor music festival in the San Francisco Bay Area, is excited to announce this year’s music lineup as the admission-free weekend concert series makes a triumphant return to Sigmund Stern Grove for its 86th season beginning Sunday, June 18.

After hosting more than 70,000 total attendees during last year’s Festival, the independently-owned multi-genre outdoor music series will once again be home to weekly performances from some of today’s most sought-after acts, in addition to a number of local Bay Area performers throughout the summer season. Beginning June 18 through August 20, fans of all ages will be treated to musical programming as eclectic and diverse as the city Stern Grove Festival calls home with ten consecutive Sunday afternoon concerts.

This year’s season will also mark a welcomed revival of the Festival’s home at Sigmund Stern Grove, a historic park and concert meadow located at 19th Avenue and Sloat Boulevard in the city’s Sunset District that for decades has offered an unparalleled outdoor concert setting for music lovers of all ages. Although the Grove experienced extensive flood damage this past winter and again at the end of the 2021 concert season, the repaired site will soon reopen to audiences this summer. Additional repair work in limited areas of Stern Grove will continue through the summer of 2023 but will not affect the upcoming concert series.

Stern Grove Festival’s 2023 summer concert calendar is listed below:

June 18        Snarky Puppy, Isaiah Sharkey

June 25        Indigo Girls (with Full Band), Neko Case

July 2        Santigold, Ogi

July 9        Lyle Lovett and His Large Band, Andrew St. James

July 16        Angelique Kidjo, Jupiter & Okwess

July 23         SF Symphony with Special Guest Lettuce

July 30         Bob Moses, Neil Frances

August 6         Buddy Guy Damn Right Farewell Tour, Eric Gales

August 13     Patti Smith, Bob Mould

August 20     The Big Picnic Featuring The Flaming Lips, Alan Palomo (Neon Indian DJ Set)

This year’s festival hits the ground running with Snarky Puppy, a Jazz collective consisting of nearly two dozen talented musicians who continuously collaborate on stage to create a live performance like no other. Following this year’s season-opening concert will be the iconic guitar-backed duo Indigo Girls, who after decades of weaving their nine-album discography into modern music fans’ daily music shuffle, will make their Stern Grove debut on June 25. Warming up the stage for this female-led duo is concert co-headliner Neko Case as the inventive songwriter wraps up her “Wild Creatures” tour following the release of her latest album and celebrates her famed career spanning over 20 years.

Genre-defying music artist Santigold will perform the next weekend in support of her latest album Spirituals following a six-year hiatus from recorded music and marking her first Bay Area performance since the final edition of Treasure Island Music Festival in 2018.

After the annual 4th of July holiday festivities, Grammy Award-winning Texas legend Lyle Lovett will be joined in the Grove by his renowned Large Band on July 9 to perform a selection of classics from his impressive catalog of hit songs that spans over three decades, as well as new tunes from his critically acclaimed album 12th of June released last year.

Next, Stern Grove Festival will host the internationally-recognized Angelique Kidjo, known best for blurring the boundaries between afrobeat, jazz, and classical music on July 16. The West African singer is no stranger to the Bay Area, having produced a project with the renowned San Francisco Symphony who are also set to perform in the Grove the following Sunday.

On July 23, Stern Grove Festival will welcome to its stage a returning favorite, the San Francisco Symphony (SFS) led by none other than conductor Daniel Bartholomew-Poyser. Since its inaugural concert in 1938, Stern Grove Festival has partnered every year with the SFS to offer a world-class performance to the public, which also marks the only opportunity each year for symphonic fans to see an admission-free performance by the SFS. Making for arguably the most unique SFS performance to date in the Grove, soulful funk collective Lettuce will infuse modern hip-hop and classic jazz into the popular orchestral ballads for an unprecedented concert performance.

A pair of Canada-born electronic DJs and music producers, Bob Moses, can be seen at the Grove on July 30, as they perform a number of dance-inducing hits songs, while the duo also supports EDM heavyweights ODESZA on their summer/fall 2023 tour.

Kicking off the new month on August 6 is Grammy Award-winning blues icon Buddy Guy as he performs in celebration of his seventh No. 1 album The Blues Don’t Lie released last year. This special Stern Grove Festival performance will serve as the sole Bay Area stop alongside his “‘Damn Right’ farewell tour as one of the greatest guitarists of all time ends his extensive touring career.

Punk rock’s brazen lyricist, Patti Smith, will perform on August 13 as she comes off of her most recent album, The Perfect Vision Reworkings, released this past year. Taking Rock & Roll fame with a reputation of shameless unconventionality, Stern Grove is excited to welcome her as a bonafide staple to their 2023 lineup.

To close out the Festival in spectacular fashion, the 2023 concert season concludes on Sunday, August 20 featuring The Flaming Lips as part of the Festival’s annual fundraiser, The Big Picnic. This season-ending concert will help to raise funds in support of the Festival’s mission to provide admission-free concerts and arts education programs for the residents of the Bay Area, with a limited number of tables available for purchase today. For more information on table reservations, interested donors can email [email protected]

“Our Grove has been put through the wringer the past few seasons, but I couldn’t be more proud of the resolve and determination our team has shown as our Festival has not only persevered but grown and ultimately thrived in the face of such adversity. Being able to bring back this annual summer reunion with no delays is a cause for real celebration among music lovers across the Bay area, and we look forward to hosting each of you at what I truly believe will be our best season yet,” said Stern Grove Festival’s Executive Director Bob Fiedler.

Although admission to each concert will continue to remain free to the public, the nonprofit-led Festival will welcome the return of its online ticket reservation system via www.sterngrove.org to offer free passes on a first-come, first-served basis. In order to reach as many music fans unable to attend in person, Stern Grove Festival will also be livestreaming performances throughout the season with more details to be announced surrounding the 2023 RSVP and livestream experiences.

Those interested in an elevated festival-going experience can pre-purchase table seating today for each concert throughout the summer season. Reserved picnic table seating is available with a donation of $1,500 or more, except for The Big Picnic, with more information available at www.sterngrove.org.

Stern Grove Festival would like to thank many of the 2023 sponsors for their support, including San Francisco Recreation & Parks Department, Lisa & Douglas Goldman Fund, Grants for the Arts, William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, Waymo, Bloomberg, John & Marcia Goldman Foundation, Kaiser Permanente, The Bernard Osher Foundation, William G. Gilmore Foundation, Xfinity, Anchor Brewing, The Fairmont Hotel, and Mixhalo. Local media partners also include KPIX-TV, SF Media Co., and SFMTA.

Stay tuned as the 2023 music lineup and other Festival details will be announced soon. Learn more at www.sterngrove.org

Stern Grove Festival, the oldest outdoor music festival in California, is excited to announce a special ceremony preceding the final concert of the 86th season to honor the legendary rock band, The Flaming Lips, before their headlining performance on Sunday, August 20.

Celebrating August 20th being declared as “The Flaming Lips Day” by the City of San Francisco the Mayor of San Francisco, Mayor London Breed will present the special proclamation to the band while offering words in recognition of the band’s longstanding contribution to the unique cultural fabric of the San Francisco Bay Area. Along with Mayor Breed will be Festival’s Board Chair Matthew Goldman, Executive Director Bob Fiedler, and Commissioner and Chair of California State Parks Phil Ginsburg.

"We’re very grateful to embrace August 20 as The Flaming Lips Day in San Francisco. We’ve had many shared moments in this city and we feel grateful to be a part of the creative and eclectic fabric of the San Francisco music scene that makes this city so special” said Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips.

The Flaming Lips have deep roots in the Bay Area as the cosmic rock outfit has been championed by local residents for over two decades beginning with initial support from college radio station KUSF, to record stores like Revolver Records and Aquarius, to commercial radio stations like KITS, to local independent promoters like Bill Graham Presents and Noise Pop.

Many of the band’s career milestones have also taken place in San Francisco  including, their first concert outside of their home state of Oklahoma, 1985 at I-Beam Club on Haight Street, the iconic performance at Union Square in 1995, a beat-box experiment at Bimbos 365 Club, and headlining festival set at Noise Pop Festival’s 20th anniversary, among many other countless performances.

The Stern Grove Festival team is honored to not only play host to such iconic rock pioneers as they close out the ten-week concert season, but also help bestow this great honor upon the band who has left such an unforgettable mark upon the Festival’s hometown of San Francisco.

"Stern Grove Festival is honored to proclaim August 20 as The Flaming Lips Day in San Francisco, recognizing the band's profound impact on our city's cultural tapestry through their creative expression, psychedelic performances, and indelible influence that has enriched our history and shaped our vibrant artistic landscape." Bob Fiedler, Executive Director of Stern Grove Festival.

With the final concert fast approaching, festival organizers are continuing to release a limited number of free ticket reservations daily via www.sterngrove.org on a first-come, first-served basis. Fans can anticipate free tickets to be distributed in the week leading up to the August 20 concert that will also feature a special DJ set from Alan Palomo aka Neon Indian.

This special summer concert also coincides with The Big Picnic, a fundraising event benefiting Stern Grove Festival and its mission to present free concerts and community outreach programs to the Bay Area. While the final concert will remain free to the public, reserved picnic tables are available for purchase starting at $5,000 for up to ten guests as part of the Festival’s fundraising efforts, with more information available by emailing [email protected].

For those unable to attend in-person, Stern Grove Festival has partnered with San Francisco’s CBS television stations (KPIX and KBCW) to livestream and broadcast the admission-free weekend concert, set to the backdrop of one of the most beautiful music venues destinations in the country, which is often mentioned alongside the likes of Red Rocks Amphitheater in Colorado, and The Gorge Amphitheatre in Washington.

Fans can tune-in to the concert beginning at 2:00 p.m. PST via CBS San Francisco's CW affiliate, KBCW, 44 cable12, and KPIX.com which will also be hosted by beloved local media personality Liam Mayclem, who celebrates his tenth season as the festival’s official host. By offering these memorable performances to the public free-of-charge via livestream and broadcast, Stern Grove Festival continues to fulfill its mission to make high-quality, musical performances accessible for all.

Learn more at www.sterngrove.org, while following along on social media including Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

The independent event producers behind Big As Texas, a new country and Americana music and food festival, are proud to announced that the inaugural outdoor festival will be held at the Montgomery County Fairgrounds (9333 Airport Rd, Conroe, TX 77303) near Houston, Texas beginning Friday, May 10 through Sunday, May 12, 2024.

A limited number of early-bird three-day GA will be available for purchase online beginning at Noon CST today at BigAsTexasFest.com, with very limited ticket prices starting at just $169.99 for a three-day pass. Fans are encouraged to purchase early, as ticket prices will continue to rise as the festival date approaches - meaning this is the cheapest possible three-day ticket patrons can purchase before the event arrives next May.

Utilizing the historic fairgrounds’ sprawling 30+ acre campus, the team behind Big As Texas remains as ambitious as the Lone Star State itself with dozens of music performers, restaurants, vendors and Texas artisans in store for 2024 attendees along with custom car shows, equestrian exhibitions, carnival games, immersive art installations, silent auctions, chainsaw carvings, and so much more.

At this very moment, the festival team is putting the final touches on a world-class music lineup featuring larger-than-life household names, Grammy Award-winners, legends of the genre, modern chart topping hitmakers, and some of today’s most sought-after up-and-coming music acts – all of whom will perform next May while set against the background of sprawling Texas prairie land and three main stages, one of which is large enough to host crowds of over 100,000 at any one time.

With country and Americana music having played such an instrumental role in both the longstanding history and modern-day cultural fabric of the Lone Star State, these two genres will serve as the cornerstones of this new festival brand’s booking efforts. However, in true Texas fashion, the festival will also look to shine a spotlight on the large and diverse pool of talent that the state has to offer, with many special surprises in store for Big As Texas festival-goers.

Not only will fans be treated to world-class music entertainment, but festival patrons can also look forward to an expansive food and beverage lineup featuring a curated selection of local chefs, restaurants, and popular culinary destinations found across the state - many of whom will be offering live open-fire grilling as well as cooking demos throughout the weekend affair.

Attendees will also have the opportunity to camp out under the stars with more details to follow. Campers will be treated to a number of special amenities to create a safe and welcoming weekend adventure filled with exploration and human connection amongst fellow festival-goers, not to mention exclusive late-night parties and after-hours concerts just for overnight guests.

The core team behind the new festival includes a distinguished ‘who’s who’ of seasoned Harris and Montgomery County event veterans - Steve Said of Dosey Doe and Trey Diller of Inspire Productions - in addition to Robert E. Marling Jr., a local county resident, longtime philanthropist, and former-CEO of Woodforest National Bank based nearby in Woodlands, Texas.

Said, who has been producing hundreds of shows each year for more than two decades, has built Dosey Doe into an undeniable Texas music institution by regularly featuring concerts that range famed country legends performing in more intimate settings to show from today’s most popular and distinguished singer-songwriters.

"A Festival like Big As Texas is long, long overdue, especially with regard to country music festivals in the region, " proclaimed Steve Said.

After a brief stint in the NFL, Trey Diller has also been producing his own events and festivals throughout the region to much fanfare for many years. Over the past decade, Said and Diller have collectively worked alongside more than 500 musicians from across the globe, offering the Big As Texas team a rare opportunity to foster these working relationships and build something entirely new that will serve their patrons near and far for years to come.

“We are pulling out all the stops on this one. We have recruited some of the most innovative minds in the industry and plan to make Big As Texas a cultural fixture in the state and beyond,” said festival cofounder Trey Diller.

The three-day festival will be hosted outdoors in one of the fast-growing counties in the country - Montgomery County - which also happens to be facing an unprecedented epidemic with rapidly-rising rates of suicide deathes. Due to these alarming statistics, suicide prevention will provide a constant rally cry for festival organizers as each have been personally impacted the issue.

With an estimated 100+ suicides in America per day that equates to one suicide death occuring every 11 minutes per the CDC, suicide remains of the leading causes of death in the United States impacting millons of Americans and their families each year. To combat this, festival organizers will be inviting local experts, doctors, therapists and elected officials, as well as nonprofit organizations from across the country to join together onsite next May.

As the issue of mental health and wellness as well as suicide prevention and awareness serves as a major focal point for festival organizers as they establish the core foundation of this new festival, Big As Texas will soon provide ample resources to address festival attendees’ mental health concerns while onsite next May, with the ultimate goal of making a major impact in their lives long-after the festival wraps up Year 1.Furthermore, organizers have decided to donate ten percent of proceeds from each individual ticket sold to 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations that promote suicide death prevention both in Montgomery County and across Texas.

A limited number of onsite activation and educational opportunities are available for nonprofit organizations that are dedicated to suicide prevention, with more details available in the coming weeks.

Ultimately, the mission of Big As Texas is to have a positive and substantial economic and cultural impact on Montgomery County and the surrounding region; become one of the most anticipated annual events across the state of Texas, one that is a perfect complement to the existing event landscape and cultural fabric of the the Lone Star State; and provide life-saving education and financial support to some of America’s most vulnerable communities that continued to be impacted by suicide.

Stay tuned as the star-studded music lineup will be released this fall. For more news and announcements from Big As Texas Festival, fans are encouraged to visit the following channels while following the festival on social media:

• Website: BigAsTexasFest.com

• Facebook: @bigastexasfest

• Instagram: @bigastexasfest 

• Tik-Tok: @bigastexasfest

• Twitter: @Bigastexas_fest

• Email: [email protected] 

The independent festival producers behind Big As Texas are excited to announce their inaugural music lineup featuring some of today’s biggest country and American music acts as the new outdoor festival is scheduled to kick off in the Lone State State beginning Friday, May 10 through Sunday, May 12, 2024 near Houston, Texas.

Three-day GA passes are on sale now at BigAsTexasFest.com, with payment plans starting at low at $49.99. Fans are encouraged to purchase today, as ticket prices will continue to rise as the festival date approaches.

For those looking for an elevated weekend experience, several VIP ticket packages are also available, categorized using true Texan BBQ terminology featuring options like Select, Choice, and Prime with perks ranging from private lounges with premium spirits to front-row main stage viewing to exclusive elevated food offerings, and so much more.

2024 MUSIC LINEUP

With country and Americana music having played such an instrumental role in both the longstanding history and modern-day cultural fabric of the Lone Star State, these two genres serve as the cornerstones of this new festival’s booking efforts with the team having curated a world-class music lineup featuring modern-day superstars, legends of the genre, accomplished Grammy Award-winners, and some of today’s most sought-after up-and-coming music acts.

At a glance, the Big As Texas Festival 2024 will host more than 50,000 attendees who will enjoy over 26 hours of live music from the 35 artists billed for this year's three-day event, spread across 75+ acres of rolling Texas plains. These incredible artists have a total of just over 60 Grammy award nominations and wins, along with 70 million combined Spotify listeners. Most importantly, a third of the lineup hails from the Lone Star State.

This year's festival will feature none other than country cornerstone Thomas Rhett, who just released his latest album “20 Number Ones” on September 29. Joining him is chart-topping music sensation Dierks Bentley, who boasts dozens of chart-topping singles over his two-decade career; Grammy winner Billy Strings, recognized as the 2022 Americana Music Awards Artist of the Year; and rising star Morgan Wade, whose debut work earned the top spot on Rolling Stone's list of Country Albums of the Year.

Other major performers range from multi-Grammy Award-winners Dwight Yoakam and Los Lobos to Texas music legends Tracy Byrd and Clay Walker to new-age country acts like Warren Zeiders, Maddie & Tea, Breland, Anne Wilson, and Drake Milligan that dominate the radio airwaves and online streaming services. 

Texas will be well-represented with a number of acts including Midland, Jamestown Revival, Amanda Shires, Buffalo Nichols, Braxton Keith, and Montgomery County’s very own Kate Watson, among other home-state performers.

“We are stepping out in grand fashion for our inaugural year, and I couldn’t be more excited about the stellar music lineup we have curated for next May. It’s ultimately meant to be representative of the many facets of Country and Americana music because we like to think there is something for everyone at Big As Texas Fest,” said Big As Texas’s Co-Executive Producer and Talent Buyer Steve Said, best known for his work supporting the legendary Country music venue Dosey Doe.

“With an incredible lineup secured for Year 1, my team and I now turn our attention to curating all of the major aspects of the festival-piong experience for fans - from the food and drink to the nonprofit partnerships to the immersive activations. We already have a lot of amazing plans in store for our fans, and I’m hopeful Texans will show out in major form to support our independent locally-owned festival,” said Big As Texas’s co-Executive Producer Trey Diller, a lifelong resident and community advocate based in the Conroe community.

LOCAL MUSIC COMPETITION IN NOVEMBER

Leading up to the inaugural event next year, the organizers are hosting a Big as Texas Throwdown competition in which over a dozen local music acts will compete for two slots to perform on the festival's main stage next May.

With tickets available now for just $10 at www.doseydoetickets.com, the two-night event takes place on November 7-8 at Dosey Doe’s Big Barn (25911 Interstate 45 N, Sprig, TX 77380) with winners ultimately selected based on crowd applause.

Tuesday’s competition will feature MARSHALL, William Ward & the Co-Conspirators, Abigail Taylor, Big Jordan Band, and Caleb Young, with night 2 on Wednesday will include 35 Drive, Sun Valley Station, Kyle Garrett Band, Garrison Nunn, and Billie Jo Jones.

BEYOND THE MUSIC PERFORMANCES

The team behind Big As Texas remains as ambitious as the Lone Star State itself with much more than just music performances in store for attendees at this massive three-day celebration.

Held at the Montgomery County Fairgrounds (9333 Airport Rd, Conroe, TX 77303) outside Houston, Big as Texas will make use of the fairgrounds’ sprawling 75+ acre campus with performances set against the background of sprawling Texas prairie land.

Stayed tuned as a new lineup featuring dozens of Texas vendors and artisans will be revealed in the coming months, alongside a schedule chalked full of activities from open-fire grilling with local chefs to custom car shows to equestrian exhibitions to carnival games to immersive art installations, silent auctions, chainsaw carvings, and so much more.

Plus, a limited number of festival attendees will also have the opportunity to camp out under the stars with more details to follow. Campers will be treated to a number of special amenities to create a safe and welcoming weekend adventure filled with exploration and human connection amongst fellow festival-goers, not to mention exclusive late-night performances just for overnight guests.

SUPPORTING SUICIDE PREVENTION

The three-day festival will be hosted outdoors in one of the fast-growing counties in the country - Montgomery County - which also happens to be facing an unprecedented epidemic with rapidly rising rates of suicide deaths. Due to these alarming statistics, suicide prevention will provide a constant rallying cry for festival organizers as each has been personally impacted by the issue.

With an estimated 100+ suicides in America per day and approximately one suicide death occurring every 11 minutes per the CDC, suicide remains one of the leading causes of death in the United States impacting millions of American families each year. To combat this, festival organizers will be inviting local experts, doctors, therapists, and nonprofit organizations to join together onsite next May.

As the issue of mental health and wellness as well as suicide prevention and awareness serves as a major focal point for festival organizers as they establish the core foundation of this new festival, Big As Texas will soon provide resources to address today’s mental health concerns, with the ultimate goal of making a major impact long after the festival wraps up on Sunday night. A limited number of onsite activation and educational opportunities are available for nonprofit organizations that are dedicated to suicide prevention, with more details available in the coming weeks.

Furthermore, organizers have decided to donate ten percent of net ticket proceeds from each individual ticket sold to 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations that promote suicide death prevention both in Montgomery County and across Texas. 

MORE ABOUT THE TEAM

The core team behind the new festival includes a distinguished ‘who’s who’ of seasoned Harris and Montgomery County event veterans – Steve Said of the popular Country music venue Dosey Doe and Trey Diller of Inspire Productions - in addition to Robert E. Marling Jr., a local county resident, longtime philanthropist, and former-CEO of Woodforest National Bank based nearby in Woodlands, Texas.

Said and Diller have collectively worked alongside more than 500 musicians from across the globe over the past decade offering the Big As Texas team a rare opportunity to foster these working relationships and build something new that will serve patrons near and far for years to come.

Ultimately, the team behind Big As Texas hopes to have a positive and substantial economic and cultural impact on Montgomery County and the surrounding region; become one of the most anticipated annual events across the state of Texas; and provide life-saving education and financial support to some of America’s most vulnerable communities impacted by suicide.

Festival organizers would like to thank this year’s partners and sponsors for supporting the inaugural event including Woodforest National Bank, Busch Light, Karbach Brewing Co., 93Q Country (KKBQ-FM), City of Conroe, Ranch Water Hard Selter, NÜTRL Vodka Seltzer, George Dickel, Cutwater Spirits, and Cowboy Pools. 

For more news and announcements from Big As Texas Festival, fans are encouraged to visit the following channels while following the festival on social media:

• Website: BigAsTexasFest.com

• Facebook: @bigastexasfest

• Instagram: @bigastexasfest 

• Tik-Tok: @bigastexasfest

• Twitter: @Bigastexas_fest

• Email: [email protected] 

Organizers behind Noise Pop Festival, San Francisco Bay Area’s premier independent music festival, have announced today the phase 1 music lineup for the multi-venue music festival returning as the week-long event returns for its 31st anniversary beginning Thursday, February 22 through Sunday, March 3, 2024.

Tickets go on sale tomorrow morning at 10:00 a.m. PST via www.noisepopfest.com, including festival badges and individual concert tickets. Badges grant access to general admission (non-reserved seating) access to every music concert, happy hour, and after-hour party throughout the weeklong festival. Fans are encouraged to act fast as the initial allotment of early-bird festival badges sold out within hours of each on-sale earlier this fall. As always, badge prices will increase with each new lineup phase announcement.

2024 MUSIC LINEUP

The initial lineup is led by a slew of female-fronted acts, each of which released new music in recent weeks, including Snail Mail, the beloved indie rock solo project from Lindsey Jordan, dubbed as one of the greatest guitarists of all time by Rolling Stone, who just dropped a new EP, Valentine (Demos), last Friday; West Coast rock trio Cherry Glazerr, who released their fourth album, I Don't Want You Anymore, just over a month ago to wide-spread critical acclaim; and singer/songwriter/pianist Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter, who was formerly known as Lingua Ignota and just dropped her debut album, Saved!, only a few weeks ago while selling out a special pop-up show at Carnegie Hall this coming January as a lead up to Noise Pop Festival.

Festival alumni The Mountain Goats will return for their third Noise Pop Festival performance, following previous sets in 2008 and 2016, with 2024 serving as a special solo acoustic set from John Darnielle. Noise Pop looks forward to welcoming back the folk-rock band that in the past four years has released six studio albums, most recently with Jenny From Thebes released this October.

A number of internationally-revered performers are also set to perform including Ethiopian music legend and keyboardist Hailu Mergia; Peru-born, Germany-based producer/DJ Sofia Kourtesis; Italian electronic music producer Alessandro Cortini, arguably best known for his work as a member of the iconic band Nine Inch Nails and who will be presenting his new live performance installation “Nati Infiniti" at Noise Pop Festival 2024; as well as boundaryless British electronic music producer Actress who will perform a rare live performance of his cerebral abstract techno music.

In true Noise Pop tradition, the West Coast is well-respected in this year’s lineup with an expansive multi-genre collection of performers that include Thee Sinseers (soul, Los Angeles), Militarie Gun (punk rock, Los Angeles), Ultra Q (alt-rock, Oakland), Spiritual Cramp (punk rock, San Francisco), and Chokecherry (shoegaze, San Francisco), The Reds, Pinks & Purples (indie rock, San Francisco), and Stephen Steinbrink (indie pop, Oakland) among others.

The initial music lineup is listed below and available online at www.noisepopfest.com, although stay tuned for more artist additions in the coming weeks as over 100 total music acts will perform at the 2024 festival:

    Snail Mail

    The Mountain Goats (Solo)

    Cherry Glazerr

    Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter

    Hailu Mergia

    Sofia Kourtesis

    Actress (Live A/V)

    Alessandro Cortini

    Narrow Head

    Thee Sinseers

    Militarie Gun

    Ultra Q

    Shay Lia

    Kendra Morris

    Pool Kids

    Spiritual Cramp

    Raue

    Cola

    Greg Mendez

    chokecherry

    The Reds, Pinks & Purples

    Stephen Steinbrink

    The Softies

    Wombo

    Roman Candle

+ Plus More Acts To Be Announced Soon!

“Phase 1 of this year’s curated lineup is stacked with not only the artists you already know and love, but the ones you need on your radar from the Bay and beyond,” said Noise Pop CEO, Michelle Swing. “We’re excited to announce Phase 1, but there’s much, much more to come and we can’t wait to share.”

SUPPORT FROM ORGANIZERS, VENUES & SPONSORS

For more than three decades, festival organizers at Noise Pop Industries have served as cultural arbiters and community advocates within the local arts community while promoting thousands of concerts and creating unique festival properties across Northern California.

Next February, Noise Pop will celebrate the 31st anniversary of the launch of the team’s flagship event, Noise Pop Festival, which regularly transforms the entire San Francisco Bay Area into sprawling festival grounds. Fans can once again look forward to a jam-packed schedule full of live music, art shows, happy hours, secret after-hour parties, and so much more - all of which will take place nightly over the course of a full week in late February.

Featuring some of the country’s most historic concert halls among other SF music venue institutions, Noise Pop has tapped the likes of Great American Music Hall, Bottom of the Hill, The Chapel, Rickshaw Stop, Joe Henderson Lab at SFJAZZ, August Hall, Gray Area, Kilowatt, Bender's Bar and Grill, and 1015 Folsom, among others to participate again, although Noise Pop looks to make its debut next February with several intimate concerts at the Grace Cathedral. Entry to all of these iconic spaces will soon be available to those who purchase full festival badges, in addition to ticket-buyers at individual festival concerts.

Noise Pop would also like to thank the creative contributions of Christopher Gale, more commonly known as Kidtofer, an artist and illustrator based in Oakland and originally from Bangkok, Thailand who is responsible for designing this year’s poster artwork. Learn more about his artwork by visiting www.kidtofer.com.

Stay tuned for more festival announcements through the official festival website at www.noisepopfest.com

Local organizers behind Sol Blume, one of the largest R&B music festivals in the country, are proud to announce that the outdoor weekend celebration will officially return to Sacramento next spring to celebrate its fifth anniversary while expanding to three days for the first time ever.

After welcoming more attendees than ever before at the 2023 edition of Sol Blume with 46,000 total guests having traveled from across the globe to attend including nearly all 50 U.S. states and 15 international countries, Sol Blume will once again take over Discovery Park on Friday, May 3 through Sunday, May 5.

To celebrate the news, a limited number of discount-priced blind presale festival passes will go on sale to the general public next Friday, December 8 at 10:00 a.m. PT via SolBlume.com, which includes three-day GA and VIP wristbands as well as with the introduction of the GA+ ticket type. Fans are encouraged to act fast as pricing will increase as the festival date approaches.

Since its inception in 2018, the springtime outdoor music festival has helped to create a multi-million dollar economic impact upon the Sacramento region, crowning itself as the city’s largest R&B music festival. With a continued emphasis on positivity, diversity, and inclusivity, Sol Blume will once again bring together local residents and travelers alike to gather next spring and enjoy incredible music performances from today's most sought-after R&B, soul, and hip-hop acts.

Having now cemented itself as one of the most highly-anticipated R&B, soul, and hip-hop music festivals of the year, make sure to stay tuned for the 2024 lineup announcement dropping early next year while visiting the following channels:

    WEBSITE: SolBlume.com

    INSTAGRAM: @solblume

    FACEBOOK: @solblume

    TWITTER: @solblume

Hometown festival organizers Noise Pop Industries are excited to announce today that more than 20 music artists have been added to the lineup of their Noise Pop Festival as San Francisco Bay Area’s premier independent music festival returns Thursday, February 22 through Sunday, March 3, 2024 in celebration of its 31st anniversary.

Following last month’s initial lineup announcement, Noise Pop Festival has expanded its musical tapestry with new performers including Louis Cole, the classically-trained jazz musician and multi-instrumentalist; Dehd, the fast-rising youthful three-piece indie rock outfit; Jacques Greene b2b Nosaj Thing, the collaborative project from the minds of electronic music geniuses Canada’s Jacques Greene and Los Angeles’ Nosaj Thing; and returning festival alum Mount Eerie, an indie rock project from the mind of songwriter Phil Elverum; amongst others.

Many acclaimed female-fronted acts have also been added to the bill including Suzanne Ciani, five-time Grammy Award-nominated composer and pioneer in sound design will perform a rare concert at the highly intimate Grace Cathedral as part of a collaboration with Reflections, an immersive traveling concert series that pairs new age and ambient music with visuals and stunning architecture presented live in quadraphonic sound and bathed in an immersive light show; experiential electronic pop icon Alice Glass; French singer and instrumentalist Laetitia Sadier, perhaps best known as a founding member of the London-based band Stereolab; and Grammy Award-nominated poet, activist and songwriter Aja Monet, who will make her long-awaited San Francisco debut.

These incredible artists now find a spot on the already impressive roster which features acts such as Snail Mail, The Mountain Goats, Cherry Glazerr, Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter, Hailu Mergia, Alessandro Cortini, and more. In total, over 50 international acts now have been tapped to perform at the team’s flagship event, Noise Pop Festival, which regularly transforms the entire San Francisco Bay Area into sprawling festival grounds.

Tickets to these new concerts go on sale this Friday morning at 10:00 a.m. PST via www.noisepopfest.com, with full festival badges currently available for purchase. These special badges grant access to general admission (non-reserved seating) access to every music concert, happy hour, and after-hour party throughout the week-long festival although, as always, badge prices will increase with each new lineup phase announcement.

See the most updated 2024 music lineup listed below and available online at www.noisepopfest.com:

    Snail Mail

    The Mountain Goats (Solo)

    Louis Cole **

    Suzanne Ciani **

    Cherry Glazerr

    Dehd **

    Jacques Greene b2b Nosaj Thing **

    Alice Glass **

    Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter

    Mount Eerie **

    Hailu Mergia

    Sofia Kourtesis

    Laetitia Sadier **

    Aja Monet **

    Loving**

    Actress (Live A/V)

    Alessandro Cortini

    Narrow Head

    Califone **

    Thee Sinseers

    Ana Roxanne **

    Emile Mosseri **

    Black Belt Eagle Scout **

    Militarie Gun

    Ultra Q

    Shay Lia

    Holly Bowling **

    The Seshen **

    Kendra Morris

    Melanie Charles **

    Mark Sultan BBQ **

    Pool Kids

    Spiritual Cramp

    Genevieve Artadi **

    Cosa Nostra Strings **

    Cadence Weapon **

    Cola

    Greg Mendez

    The Softies

    Fog Lake **

    Nailah Hunter **

    Cole Pulice **

    Celia Hollander **

    Sour Widows **

    chokecherry

    The Reds, Pinks & Purples

    Stephen Steinbrink

    The Sextones **

    Wombo

    Roman Candle

    + Plus More Acts To Be Announced Soon!

** denotes new additions

Next February, these performances will unfold across many of the Bay Area’s most coveted music venues such as Great American Music Hall, Bottom of the Hill, The Chapel, Rickshaw Stop, Joe Henderson Lab at SFJAZZ, August Hall, Gray Area, Kilowatt, Bender's Bar and Grill, 1015 Folsom, and the list goes on including Noise Pop’s debut at the Grace Cathedral that will feature several special and intimate concerts. Entry to all of these iconic spaces will soon be available to those who purchase full festival badges, in addition to ticket-buyers at individual festival concerts.

Noise Pop would also like to thank the creative contributions of Christopher Gale, more commonly known as Kidtofer, an artist and illustrator based in Oakland and originally from Bangkok, Thailand who is responsible for designing this year’s poster artwork. Learn more about his artwork by visiting www.kidtofer.com.

Despite this year’s lineup already boasting over 50+ remarkable acts, Noise Pop looks to announce even more music artists in the coming weeks, alongside a jam-packed schedule full of happy hours, secret after-hour parties, and so much more - all of which will take place nightly over the course of a full week in late February. As Noise Pop continues to call San Francisco home, festival organizers will continue searching for new sounds and experiences to bring to the Bay Area, while also nurturing and shining a light on the local arts community.

Stay tuned for more festival announcements through the official festival website at www.noisepopfest.com

Festival organizers from Noise Pop Industries and The Mill Valley Chamber of Commerce are excited to reveal the 2024 music lineup as the boutique, all-ages Mill Valley Music Festival officially returns to Northern California on May 11-12.

Two-day GA and VIP passes are on sale now through www.MillValleyMusicFest.com, with additional ticket options for Teens, Seniors, and Kids. Fans are encouraged to act fast as the first allotment of passes sold out last fall, and ticket pricing will continue to increase as the event date approaches.

“As we head into year three of what started as a somewhat hair-brained idea to rejuvenate and inspire our community by reveling in the deep, historic roots of live music in our town, we’re grateful on a number of fronts – the amazing support we’ve had so far, the growth we’ve experienced each year, and the patience and support from our neighbors, our partners, and our stakeholders. We’ll continue to raise the profile of this town we’re blessed to call home,” said Jim Welte, Executive Director of the Mill Valley Chamber of Commerce.

Musical tastes of all types will be on full display at the festival next spring from indie rock to soul-filled blues to folk, Americana, and more while drawing in acclaimed music artists from across the country - many of whom will be performing in the Mill Valley area for the very first time.

The multi-Grammy Award-nominated indie-folk band Fleet Foxes (Seattle, WA) will make a highly-anticipated return to the Bay Area to headline this year’s outdoor fest, alongside modern-day bluegrass legends Greensky Bluegrass (Kalamazoo, MI) as the Appalachia-influenced five-piece band continues to perform in support of their latest acclaimed project Stress Dreams.

After dropping what’s been heralded as one of the best debut albums in the past two years, the soul-filled three-piece band Thee Sacred Souls (San Diego, CA) will also perform at Mill Valley next May, alongside country singer-songwriter Margo Price (Nashville, TN), who just re-released her latest album Strays this past fall with several brand new tracks; and eight-piece rock-and-soul band St. Paul & The Broken Bones (Birmingham, AL).

Additional festival performers include Eric D. Johnson’s indie rock project Fruit Bats (Chicago, IL), who just dropped the band’s first-ever fully-self-produced album last year called A River Running to Your Heart;  funk icons Rebirth Brass Band (New Orleans, LA) who have received several Grammy Awards among other accolades since first forming as a band over four decades ago; and public defender-turned-R&B songstress Danielle Ponder (Rochester, NY).

Rounding out the 2024 lineup features a pair of NorCal natives and acclaimed singer-songwriters - Elliott Peck and Eric Lindell - with Mill Valley Music Festival serving as welcomed hometown shows for these local artists.

This year’s music lineup is listed below and available online at www.MillValleyMusicFest.com:

    Fleet Foxes
    Greensky Bluegrass
    Thee Sacred Souls
    Margo Price
    St. Paul & The Broken Bones
    Fruit Bats
    Rebirth Brass Band
    Danielle Ponder
    Eric Lindell
    Elliott Peck

“Mill Valley Music Fest is coming back bigger and better than ever in ‘24. Major kudos to the team for curating such an impressive and eclectic lineup, one that really stands out from the crowd and attracts music lovers of all kinds to Mill Valley this spring,” said Michelle Swing, CEO of Noise Pop Industries.

Following a successful Year 2 event last spring that hosted 10,000+ total patrons, 20+ music acts, and 50+ local businesses, all while expanding to two days for the first time, the Mill Valley Music Festival team gears up for a return to Friends Field while transforming the Mill Valley Community Center into a sprawling outdoor festival grove suited for music-lovers of all ages.

Festival-goers this spring will have access to more than a dozen incredible music performances spread across two outdoor stages while offering guests a true taste of the good life in Mill Valley that includes a large and curated assortment of the region’s best artisans, food vendors, and philanthropic causes, plus family-friendly activities like a roller skating rink, gaming lounge, immersive art installations, local craft beer, hidden speakeasies, and so much more.

Stay tuned for more festival news, including details on the festival’s locals-only stage curated by Mill Valley’s very own Sweetwater Music Hall, local food and drink options, and so much more surrounding the 2024 fan experience, festival partners, and local businesses set to participate in this year’s event.

For more announcements, fans can visit the festival’s official website at www.MillValleyMusicFest.com while following along on Facebook and Instagram at @MillValleyMusicFest.

Hometown festival organizers Noise Pop Industries are proud to reveal today the full music lineup for Noise Pop Festival as San Francisco Bay Area’s premier independent music festival returns Thursday, February 22 through Sunday, March 3, 2024 in celebration of its 31st anniversary.

Music discovery abounds at this year’s weeklong festival as performers continue to span the musical gambit with a wide variety of newly announced music acts. Not to mention the 75+ previously announced acts that adorn the already impressive roster like Snail Mail, The Mountain Goats, Louis Cole, Suzanne Ciani, Cherry Glazerr, Dehd, Jacques Greene b2b Nosaj Thing, Conducta, Alice Glass, Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter, Mount Eerie and more.

Hip-hop legends Bone Thugs-N-Harmony will now perform a special first-of-the-month festival headlining set at The Curran Theatre on March 1st in support of the trailblazing rap group’s three-plus decades touring together; while Italian electronic dance music maestro DJ Tennis, Jamaican-British songstress Rochelle Jordan, and acclaimed folk singer Kate Bollinger will also perform at the festival next month.

For the latter concert, local retail shop Crossroads Trading has partnered with Noise Pop to set up a special pop-up shop at this intimate concert at Swedish American Hall on Sunday, March 3 as Kate Bollinger closes out the 2024 edition of Noise Pop Festival that evening.

Next month, Noise Pop will also welcome a very special showcase to 1015 Folsom – “Rhonda presents: A Club Called SQUISH” – featuring Ben UFO, Conducta, Olof Dreijer (of The Knife); in addition to a two-night residency at 4Star Theater from festival alum Tommy Guerrero, marking the festival’s first-ever concerts inside the historic movie house.

4Star Theater will also offer a rare film screening of “Dreamin’ Wild”, the acclaimed biopic about indie-rock pioneer Donnie Emerson featuring a live Q&A with the artist himself alongside a very special guest, his wife and fellow musician Nancy Sophia Emerson.

Working closely with the festival team, SF Jazz is also curating a special lineup of top-tier modern Jazz musicians throughout Noise Pop Festival 2024 featuring acts like Holly Bowling⁠, Cosa Nostra Strings⁠, The Seshen, and Melanie Charles⁠.

Found in the Mid-Market District of SF, The LINE San Francisco will also work with the festival to present a special admission-free concert featuring Space Ghost, a musician project from the mind of Sudi Wachspress who is a producer and DJ living nearby in Oakland.

Furthermore, The LINE San Francisco will offer 20% off overnight stays for festival-goers who use the code ‘MAKENOISE” when booking their reservations. The LINE will also honor a 15% discount at their various onsite culinary concepts during the days of the festival including at Tenderheart, Rise Over Run, Alfred, and Dark Bar whenever a patron shows a Noise Pop Festival 2024 concert ticket stub or festival badge.

Over 100 individual music acts are set to perform at the festival next month with a majority having strong ties to the Bay Area and signaling Noise Pop’s consistent efforts to uplift the music community in its very own background.

“When it comes to live music, San Francisco is as diverse as they come and our team hopes this lineup is reflective of this city’s amazing culture and music scene. With over 100 acts in the queue for Noise Pop’s weeklong party, there’s no shortage of incredible shows to catch at the festival — and you might even discover your next favorite artist,” said Noise Pop’s CEO Michelle Swing.

Next February, these performances will unfold across many of the Bay Area’s most coveted music venues such as Great American Music Hall, Bottom of the Hill, The Chapel, Rickshaw Stop, Joe Henderson Lab at SFJAZZ, August Hall, Gray Area, Kilowatt, Bender's Bar and Grill, 1015 Folsom, and the list goes on including Noise Pop’s debut at the Grace Cathedral that will feature several special and intimate concerts.

Beyond these dozens of music performances, festival-goers can look forward to a jam-packed schedule full of happy hours, secret after-hour parties, and so much more. All of which will take place nightly over the course of a full week in late February as Noise Pop transforms the streets of San Francisco into sprawling festival grounds.

For over 30 years, Noise Pop has proudly upheld a tradition of supporting artists, celebrating fans, and creating community. This year, the Noise Pop Festival will be teaming up with Fandiem and Harness to support the Sweet Relief Musicians Fund: a nonprofit celebrating its 30th anniversary while providing assistance to all types of career musicians and music industry workers who are facing financial challenges amidst physical or mental health issues or disability. Since 2020, the organization has provided over $450,000 to Bay Area residents working in the music industry with more information available at sweetrelief.org.

Available now at fandiem.com/noisepop, all donations made in support of this year’s Festival will benefit local Bay Area musicians and music industry workers so they can continue to create and contribute to our vibrant music scene.

As a special incentive to those who donate, one lucky fan will be given a pair of VIP Badges to Noise Pop Festival 2024 offering access to every single festival activity next month, plus merch package, future Noise Pop guest list spots, and more.

Stay tuned for more festival announcements through the official festival website at www.noisepopfest.com and official social media channels on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.