summerfest announces first headlining artists...

[unitedwestand]

so incase you didn't know already,
summerfest takes place for 2 weeks in Milwaukee from the end of June through first week or so of July
tickets r roughly $20 a day and it's the world's largest music festival (Over 500,000 people a year over the 2 weeks)
these are the first group of performers to headline during the two weeks from summerfest.com:
311, Paulo Nutuni, Trace Adkins, Jack's Mannequin, O.A.R, Miranda Lambert, The Roots, Crystal Method DJ Set, Keller Williams, C C Revisited, Plain White T's, Jacob Dylan, Thievery Corporation and More
There's also the Marcus Amp headlining artists, which for now include Tom Petty, Rush, Stevie Wonder and More...

[betao]

Another festival? My god.

Next up folks, Oceanfest! Held in Key West, Florida, during labor day weekend. Headliners include Radiohead (of course), Peaches, and Morrissey talking trash about Johnny Marr.

[TomAz]

summerfest's been around forever. not new, betao.

[betao]

Ah. well i'm still new to the festival world, but I dont remember this much going on last year. Plus I havent heard its name mentioned alot in the off-season.

[gaypalmsprings]

where is the Fest-4-the-Restuvus?

[BeHereNOW]

where is the Fest-4-the-Restuvus?

nice seinfeld lingo

[C DUB YA]

weird.

[C DUB YA]

the amount of festivals will grow for a few more years - something USA has to get used to.

[gaypalmsprings]

According to Wikipedia...

Music festivals

* 10,000 Lakes Festival — Detroit Lakes, Minnesota
* All Good Music Festival — Preston County, West Virginia
* ARTSaha! — Omaha, Nebraska
* A Taste of Colorado
* Audubon Rock Festival — Audubon, Iowa
* Austin City Limits Music Festival — Austin, Texas
* Austin Reggae Festival — Austin, Texas
* Bach Festival at Baldwin-Wallace College[[3]] — [Berea, Ohio]]
* Bang Music Festival Festival — Miami, Florida[4]
* Bay Area Indie Music Festival — Martinez, California
* Beaufort Music Festival — Beaufort, North Carolina [5]
* Bele Chere — Asheville, North Carolina [6]
* Bluegrass in the Park — Henderson, Kentucky
* Bobolink Music Festival — Belden, California
* Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival — Manchester, Tennessee
* Bonner Mountain Music Festival — Orofino, Idaho
* Buffalo-Niagara Guitar Festival — Buffalo, New York
* Bumbershoot — Seattle, Washington
* City Folk Festival — Dayton, Ohio
* Carrboro Music Festival — Carrboro, North Carolina
* Central Park SummerStage — New York, New York http://www.summerstage.org
* Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival — Indio, California
* Comstock Music Festivals — Comstock, Nebraska
* Cornerstone Festival— Bushnell, Illinois
* Diversafest LLC DFEST — Tulsa, Oklahoma
* Dally in the Alley — Detroit, Michigan
* Deer Valley Music Festival — Salt Lake City, Utah
* Detroit Electronic Music Festival — Detroit, Michigan
* Dillo Day — Evanston, Illinois
* Drop Dead Festival — NYC, NY
* Drums Along the Waterfront Drums Corp. International Competition — Buffalo, New York
* Earthdance — Laytonville, California
* The Echo Project— Atlanta, Georgia
* Electronic Music Midwest Kansas City, Kansas and Lewisville, Illinois
* Endless Festival
* Floyd World Music Festival — Floyd, Virginia
* Forecastle Festival — Louisville, Kentucky
* Fun Fun Fun Fest — Austin, Texas
* Gathering Of The Vibes — Bridgeport, Connecticut
* The Great Blue Heron Music Festival — Sherman, New York
* GrassRoots Festival of Music and Dance — Trumansburg, New York
* GrassRoots Festival of Music and Dance — Pittsboro, North Carolina
* Hardly Strictly Bluegrass — San Francisco, California
* Harmony Sweepstakes A Cappella Festival — San Francisco, California
* HFStival — Washington, D.C.
* High Sierra Music Festival — Quincy, California
* Homegrown Music Festival — Duluth, Minnesota
* HONK! Festival — Somerville (Boston), MA
* Jacksonviille Jazz Festival — Jacksonville, Florida
* Jam on the River — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
* Kate Wolf Memorial Music Festival[7] — Laytonville, California
* Kerrville Folk Music Festival -- Kerrville Texas [8]
* Lake Eden Arts Festival — Black Mountain, North Carolina
* Langerado Music Festival — Broward County, Florida
* Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise — Fort Lauderdale, Florida — San Diego, California
* Lifelight Music Festival — Sioux Falls, South Daktoa
* Lollapalooza — currently held in Chicago, Illinois but was previously a touring festival.
* Lowell Folk Festival — [9]
* MasterWorks Festival — [10]Winona Lake, Indiana
* Memphis International Film Festival — Memphis, Tennessee
* Memphis Music and Heritage Festival — Memphis, Tennessee
* MerleFest — Wilkesboro, North Carolina
* Moondance Jam — Walker, Minnesota
* Mountain Jam (Radio Woodstock) — Hunter, New York
* Mostly Mozart — New York City, New York
* Mucklewain — Pinewood, TN
* Musikfest — Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
* National Polka Festival — Ennis, Texas
* NEARfest (North East Art Rock Festival) — Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
* Nerdapalooza — Eureka, California
* New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival — New Orleans, Louisiana
* Newport Folk Festival — Newport, Rhode Island
* Newport Jazz Festival — Newport, Rhode Island
* Newport Pop Festival — Costa Mesa, California
* Northwest Folklife Festival — Seattle, Washington
* Old Settler's Music Festival — Austin, Texas
* On the Waterfront Festival — Rockford, Illinois
* Oregon Bach Festival — Eugene, Oregon
* Oregon Festival of American Music — Eugene, Oregon
* Oregon Jamboree — Sweet Home, Oregon
* Ozzfest
* Paducahpalooza — Rock the Vote-sponsored event held annually in Paducah, KY
* PDX Pop Now! — Portland, Oregon
* Peninsula Music Festival — Door County, Wisconsin
* Petestock Music Festival Milwaukee, Wisconsin
* Philadelphia Folk Festival — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
* Pitchfork Music Festival — Chicago, Illinois
* Portland Jazz Festival — Portland, Oregon
* ProgDay — Chapel Hill, North Carolina
* Provincetown Music Festvial in Provincetown, Cape Cod, Massachusetts http://www.provincetownmusicfestival.org
* Provincetown Jazz Festival in Provincetown, Cape Cod, Massachusetts http://www.provincetownjazzfestival.org
* Red Bank Jazz & Blues Festival — Red Bank, New Jersey
* Reach Music Festival— Sugar Land, Texas
* Rock The Bells
* Sacramento Jazz Jubilee — Sacramento, California
* Santa Fe Muzik Fest — Santa Fe, New Mexico
* Sasquatch! Music Festival — George, Washington
* Scott Joplin Ragtime Festival — Sedalia, Missouri
* Sitka Jazz Festival — Sitka, Alaska
* Sitka Summer Music Festival — Sitka, Alaska
* Sonshine Festival — Willmar, Minnesota
* Sounds of the Underground
* South by Southwest — Austin, Texas
* Stagecoach — Indio, California
* Spirit of Bluegrass Music Fest — Live Oak, Florida
* SummerCamp Music Fesitval — Chillicothe, IL
* Summerfest — Milwaukee, Wisconsin
* Treasure Island Music Festival — San Francisco, California
* Thyagaraja Music Festival of Utah — Salt Lake City, UT
* Ultra Music Festival — Miami, Florida
* Vegoose — Las Vegas, Nevada
* Virgin Festival — Baltimore, Maryland
* Voodoo Music Festival — New Orleans, Louisiana
* Wakarusa Music Festival — Lawrence, Kansas
* Walnut Valley Festival — Winfield, Kansas
* W. C. Handy Blues and Bar-B-Q Fest — Henderson, Kentucky
* WE Fest — Detroit Lakes, Minnesota
* Wildflower Art and Music Festival in Richardson Texas http://www.wildflowerfestival.com
* WIMFEST Women's International Music Festival www.wimfest.com — NE, OHIO
* Woodstock Mozart Festival — Woodstock, Illinois
* Xclamation Festival Downtown Music Festival http://www.xfestmodesto.com — Modesto, California
* XPoNential Music Festival http://www.xpn.org — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
* YarmonyGrass — State Bridge, Colorado

[sbessiso]

Another festival? My god.

Next up folks, Oceanfest! Held in Key West, Florida, during labor day weekend. Headliners include Radiohead (of course), Peaches, and Morrissey talking trash about Johnny Marr.

that'd actually be really amazing, I LOVE the keys (and Morrissey)

[KookyFor1973]

What, no Jack Johnson?

p.s. sbessiso - I'm in love with your sig - because it's essentially true. I must e-shake MonsoonSeason's hand.

[sbessiso]

were you the one with the Bowie tat on her back?

[gaypalmsprings]

[KookyFor1973]

were you the one with the Bowie tat on her back?

That would be correct.

[jigsaw]

Has anyone heard that Alica Keys + Stephen Marley are playing together? I wonder what they are going to be performing?

[frozen pilgrim]

that list of festivals is missing north by northeast

[Ardentbiscuit]

All we need now is a festival themed casino in Las Vegas.

And a festival reality show on the E channel.

And we will be complete.

[boboso]

All we need now is a festival themed casino in Las Vegas.

And a festival reality show on the E channel.

And we will be complete.

One of the big Vegas casino companies were thinking about doing a replica of the Montreux Casino here in Vegas.

[Ardentbiscuit]

If they do a US version of the Montreux Jazz Festival that could be interesting if it's done right....

Edit.

I just did some research, Montreux casino is canceled along with many other projects thanks to the economy.

[canexplain]

so incase you didn't know already,
summerfest takes place for 2 weeks in Milwaukee from the end of June through first week or so of July
tickets r roughly $20 a day and it's the world's largest music festival (Over 500,000 people a year over the 2 weeks).

well sort of, this was one day and not two weeks, so its all good .....good show though ... x****


On July 28, the day of the concert, 600,000 music fans had arrived in Watkins Glen. The Grateful Dead performed first, playing two long sets. They opened with "Bertha" and played many hits such as "Box Of Rain", "Jack Straw", "Playing in the Band", "China Cat Sunflower" and "Eyes of the World".

[elementquencher]

list also forgot: Sonic Bloom, Emrgnsee, Street Scene, and lots of small, 3+ days of forest fests...

[Ardentbiscuit]

list also forgot: Sonic Bloom, Emrgnsee, Street Scene, and lots of small, 3+ days of forest fests...

Sonic Bloom only has a few acts I want to see...