May 2008 Archives

Reggae Rising Music Festival is currently offering 25% discount on their VIP tickets until Midnight on June 7th. This offer has just started - go take advantage of this offer!

You must enter the code onelove2008 at checkout to receive the discount.

Reggae Rising Music Festival takes place August 1st - 3rd in Humboldt, California at Dimmick Ranch and French's Camp.

Reggae Rising Ticket Sales

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Jam Cruise has announced additions to their lineup for Jam Cruise 7. Jam Cruise is a music festival that is on a cruise ship. Like other cruises - Jam Cruise will even make stops this year at different locations along its journey.

The cruise ship will set sail January 4th - 9th heading to Belize City, Belize and Costa Maya, Mexico.

Artists just added to the lineup are:

• ALO
• Tea Leaf Green
• Bustle in Your Hedgerow
• Robert Walter

Check out our previous Jam Cruise entries including a full lineup!

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NorthEast Kingdom Music Festival tickets go on sale this coming Monday, June 1st.

The festival takes place August 1st - 2nd in Albany, Vermont. 2008 marks The Northeast Kingdom Music Festival's sixth consecutive year.

Tickets are $50.00 USD plus service charges if you were purchase online. You can purchase from the official website or FrontGateTickets.com.

If you are fortunate to live in the area or know someone who does. Tickets will be available for only $40.00 USD plus service charges from the following local locations:

• Lake Parker Corner Store - West Glover
• Riverwalk Records - Montpelier
• Pure Pop - Burlington

You will also be able to purchase tickets at the festival gates for $65.00 USD. 

 

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Wakarusa Music & Camping Festival is offering one last ticket discount offer for all of the procrastinators out there. Use the code gas money at the ticket checkout for a $20.00 USD discount off your purchase.

That would bring the 4-day pass cost $149.00 USD for the entire music festival.
Wakarusa Ticket Sales

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This is big news in the music festival world. Trey Anastasio of Phish will play his first solo act since December 2006 at Rothbury Music Festival. According to Trey's website he will be playing a solo acoustic gig at the festival. Trey will play on Sunday, July 6th.

I imagine Trey Anastasio will also step on stage with many other noteables from the festival at some point. We can only hope so!

All artists announced today are:

• Trey Anastasio
• Kraak & Smaak
• Underground Orchestra
• DJ Harry
• Pnuma Live Pa
• Fiction Plane

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It was announced this past week that John Mellencamp will be headlining Summerfest this year on one of the festivals many nights. This is somewhat old news, but we are playing catch up here at Festival Friendly.

Mellencamp will play on Saturday, June 28th at 8:00 PM at the Marcus Ampitheatre.

John Mellencamp is a Grammy-award winning rock singer-songwriter and was just inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on March 10th, 2008.

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I have uploaded the first initial batch of photos to a flickr set for the Detroit Electronic Music Festival 2008. Check it out here!

Sorry for the complete disregard for updates or notifications - but we have been in Detroit for Memorial Day weekend at the Detroit Electronic Music Festival.

Look for a plethora of photos and videos from the event to be uploaded this week. I am still sore from dancing and staying up until the wrong hours of the morning.

I hope everyone had an awesome Memorial Day weekend - there were so many festivals going on!

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Bumbershoot - Seattle's Music & Arts Festival has added another group of artists and bands to their lineup for the 2008 festival. Bumbershoot is an annual international arts and music festival that is held at Seattle Center - a 74 acre property that was originally built for the 1962 World's Fair.

Additions announced today are:

• T.I.
• Keyshia Cole
• Adele
• Minus the Bear
• Battles
• Aiden
• Unearth
• Sondre Lerche
• The Whigs
• Thao with The Get Down Stay Down
• Langhorne Slim & The War Eagles
• These Arms Are Snakes
• The Blakes
• Mark Pickerel & His Praying Hands
• Barcelona
• Kinski
• Throw Me The Statue
• J-Boogie's Dubtronic Science
• Tyrone Wells
• Howlin Rain
• Monotonix
• The Shackeltons
• Star Anna
• West Indian Girl
• Ravens & Chimes
• Hadley Caliman Quintet featuring Thomas Marriott
• Grynch
• The Hands
• Joshua Morrison
• Matt Jorgensen +451
• Chester French
• PWRFL Power
• The Girls

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Bonnaroo has recently made their schedule available online and ready for festival-goers to start creating their own custom festival schedules.

The official Bonnaroo schedule can be found at the link below:

Bonnaroo Festival Schedule

Bonnaroo in 2008 will take place June 12 - 15 on a 700+ acre farm in Manchester, Tennessee just 60 miles southeast of Nashville. Bonnaroo features over 100 artists and comedians on multiple stages - the main stage has a staggering 100,000 person capacity.

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10,000 Lakes Music Festival has released their official schedule today. This will allow all you festival-goers to start planning your festival experience ahead.

Over 60 different bands will be performing over the course of the festival. 10,000 Lakes Music Festival takes place July 23 - July 26 at the very scenic Soo Pass Ranch in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota.

Also announced today were a few lineup additions. They were as follows:

• Phix
• Moon Taxi
• Heatbox

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The lineup for the U.S. Cellular Connection with Leinenkugel and FM 102/1 at Summerfest has just been announced.

The lineup is looking amazing - Summerfest takes place in Milwaukee, Wisconsin from June 26th - July 6th.

Check out the U.S. Cellular Connection with Leinenkugel and FM 102/1 lineup information below:

June 26
10:00 PM - They Might Be Giants

June 27
10:00 PM - TBA

June 28
10:00 PM - Shinedown

June 29
10:00 PM - The Polyphonic Spree

June 30
10:00 PM - Paramore

July 1
10:00 PM - Filter

July 2
10:00 PM - Alkaline Trio

July 3
10:00 PM - Plain White T's

July 4
10:00 PM - Seether

July 5
10:00 PM - Cracker

July 6
10:00 PM - The Bravery

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We have gotten our search functionality on the site fixed. Our previous search was working without much success and couldn't search our own information.

We are now using our standard search and it works perfectly. Please try it out if you are trying to find information about any music festival you might think of. Hopefully we have covered it for you already!

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Bonnaroo has recently posted an exclusive video-interview with the Fiery Furnaces.

Fiery Furnaces is an indie rock band that was formed in Brooklyn, New York and is comprised mainly of Mathew and Eleanor Friedberger - brother and sister.

Fiery Furnaces will be performing at Bonnaroo this year. 

Check out the interview here.
Fiery Furnaces Interview

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I have to apologize for the lack of consistency for our Photo of the Week feature. We never heard back from our last weeks selection in regards to a short interview. This week we are going to switch up the interview questions and hopefully get the recipients to tell us more about themselves along with their interest in photography.

This weeks selection was contributed to our flickr pool by Wendy Whittemore. The photo depicts a festival-goer hula hooping in the sun Bonnaroo Music Festival in Manchester, Tennessee.

Check out the photo below and if you have a flickr account please add comments and let Wendy Whittemore how you feel!

We definitely won't turn down any direct submissions though for Photo of the Week. If you would like to submit your own photo or make a suggestion please feel free to send us an e-mail to mail@festivalfriendly.com.

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The Sierra Nevada World Music Festival has just announced additional artists and bands to their lineup for this years festival. These additions brings the total lineup to over 35 artists confirmed for the annual summer solstice and peace celebration.

Taking place in Boonville, California at the Mendocino Country Fairgrounds - SVWMF offers the best of reggae and world music. The event will take place June 20 - 22. The Sierra Nevada World Music Festival promotes music with a message of peace, unity and brotherhood.

Additions to lineup announced April 23rd:

• Morgan Heritage
• Antidoping
• The Expanders
• Aza
• Chris Murray Combo
• Elhadji
• Youssoupha Sidibe

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The lineup for the Zippo Rock Stage with Miller Lite and 94.1 WJJO at Summerfest has just been announced.

The lineup is looking amazing - Summerfest takes place in Milwaukee, Wisconsin from June 26th - July 6th.

Check out the Zippo Rock Stage with Miller Lite and 94.1 WJJO lineup information below:

June 26
6:00 PM - Nonpoint
11:00 PM - Drowning Pool

June 27
8:00 PM - bloodsimple
10:00 PM - Sevendust

June 28
6:30 PM - Carrie Rodriguez
8:00 PM - Old 97's
10:00 PM - Willy Porter

June 29
6:30 PM - The Parlor Mob
8:00 PM - Egypt Central
10:00 PM - Theory of a Deadman

June 30
10:00 PM - TBA

July 1
6:30 PM - 12 Stones
10:00 PM - Skillet

July 2
8:00 PM - Saving Abel
10:00 PM - Finger Eleven

July 3
8:00 PM - Ingrid Michaelson
10:00 PM - Gomez

July 4
6:30 PM - Black Tide
10:00 PM - Five Finger Death Punch

July 5
8:00 PM - Black Stone Cherry
10:00 PM - Jackyl

July 6
9:00 PM - Mickey Hart

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Reggae Rising has sent word of their newly re-designed VIP Lounge for this years festival. Reggae Rising Music Festival takes place August 1st - 3rd in Humboldt, California at Dimmick Ranch and French's Camp.

Some cool features that VIP ticket holders will have available to them are:

• Live video fees from all three stages on three seperate viewing screens
• Daily happy hour with appetizers, wine tasting and champagne
• Specialty crafts booths
• Massage
• And much more!

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I seem to be finding contest after contest for music festival tickets this summer. Popped! Music Festival has teamed up with UWishUNu.com to give away a pair of tickets to the festival in Philadelphia this summer.

The Popped! Music Festival takes place in Philadelphia, Pennysylvania from June 20th - 22nd.

The contest page can be found here.

If you lucky enough to win - please let us know!

Here is what the lucky winner will receive:

• Two nights at Sheraton University City (June 20 and 21)
• Two Southwest Airlines tickets
• Two POPPED! Festival tickets.

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I am bumping this entry to the top of our list today. It's Monday and there will be news coming today - as our inbox is full. For now though, please check out the great photos that our friend Jamie Flemington took for us.

I am really excited to announce a new set of photos that I put together last night. The photos are this past weekends Beale Street International Music Festival. You can check out our previous entry about the festival below:
The Beale Street Music Festival

The photos were all taken by my friend Jamie Flemington. She was kind enough to take photos on her trip to the festival for Festival Friendly. Please thank her if you can!

The photos are currently in our flickr group and were uploaded to my personal flickr account.
Click the link below for the actual set to view all of the photos.
Festival Friendly - Beale Street International Music Festival Photos

Once again, we hope to have our own gallery on Festival Friendly sooner than later. This will allow us to keep all of the images on our server and our website so that you won’t have to jump to other sites to see some of our content.

Thanks so much Jamie! 

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I do in fact realize I have posted this very same (similar) entry ten days ago. I'm going to keep bumping this entry to hopefully inform people of the various venues we currently have at Festival Friendly for people to get involved and to contribute to our mission.

So find below a short list and description of some of the things we are doing here. Check out our forums!

Festival Friendly - Forum
Our forums were just put online last week and we are really excited to have these online now. Please register and join in on a discussion. We have already been fortunate to have a handful of really active and enthusiastic members. So exciting folks!

Festival Friendly - Myspace
We do in fact have our very own Myspace Profile. We have been fortunate enough to get a really great response from festival fans on Myspace. We seem to be getting new Friend Requests on a regular basis. Please keep adding us!

In time we will be adding some various tools and functionality to our Myspace Profile that will help as another resource for information on Festivals.

Festival Friendly - Facebook
We currently have a Facebook Group. I am not sure if this is available to everyone - as I noticed this is an actual Network on Facebook. Let us know if you have problems joining! We have had several photos added to our gallery there.

Festival Friendly - Flickr
This was our first group we created to help establish our presence online. As of today, our Flickr group has grown to 61 Members and our Photo gallery has a staggering 658 photos already. That's not bad for only creating the group about two months ago.

We are aware of several other avenues and websites that we can create accounts to help promote the site. In time, we hope that we don't have to rely on these sites to help get visitors. For now though - please check them out and add us as a friend on Myspace, or contribute to our Flickr group.

Most importantly though - sign up in for our forum and start contributing. We are growing already!

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It is upon us again!  Underground Sound 4 is representing the Mid-West in the EDM Festival scene (electronic dance music for the un-informed).

CatalyticSouls will be Presenting UGS4 on August 15th - 17th. It is being held at Shawnee Cave
in Murphysboro, Illinois.

View Map Here

Tickets are not yet on sale, but will hopefully be available soon.  This is still very much in the works - I am sure we will have much more info to come!

UGS4 Myspace Event

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Check out this FULL After-Party list from DetroitLuv.com and Nefarious.net: DEMF / Movement '08 AFTER-PARTY Full List

Thinking of going to any After-Parties in Detroit for Detroit Electronic Music Festival? Check out the official after party schedule by clicking the ticket below!

This is a reminder to everyone of the Detroit Electronic Music Festival that is coming up later this month. I mention it because I will be there along with several of my friends representing Festival Friendly. With camera in hand and stickers to hand out - we are going to hopefully help to spread the word a little bit about the Festival Friendly movement.

The festival is scheduled to take place over Memorial Day weekend, May 24-May 26, 2008. Ticket prices this year are set at $40.00 USD for a weekend pass, and $175.00 USD for a VIP Pass. This festival is fairly inexpensive - purchase DEMF Tickets here!

So if you are going to be at the Detroit Electronic Music Festival this year - please let us know! We would love to meet up with you and maybe hand out some propaganda. Thanks so much!

Previous DEMF related entries.

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Jambase.com has partnered up with the All Good Music Festival & Camp Out for a huge VIP ticket give-a-way. This is your chance to win a pair of (2) VIP Tickets to the festival this July.

Here is what you get if you win:

• Early admission to All Good on Thursday
• Exclusive viewing area with premium site-lines
• Private bathrooms
• Discounts on beverages
• Light snack and finger foods
• A commemorative laminate
• Private festival check-in and VIP entrance to festival grounds
• No waiting in long lines. Seperate VIP entrance to concert areas

Enter the contest at the following link: All Good Music Festival VIP Give-A-Way

The All Good Music Festival & Camp Out is a three day long festival held in Masontown, West Virginia. The festival sits atop Marvin's Mountaintop, and features two seperate stages with one centralized concert area with absolutely no set overlapping sets.

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    In case you have been hiding under a rock since 1986 - Mississippi has been holding a festival by the name of Jubilee!JAM.  It will be held on Capitol Street in downtown Jackson, Mississippi on June 13 and 14 of 2008.

All-in-all this seems like an awesome melting pot of talent ranging from ZZ Top to Three 6 Mafia. The gates open on Friday at 6pm and at 3pm on Saturday.

Tickets are available now at Ticketmaster, TCB Concerts and The Coliseum Box Office. Prices are as follows: Jubilee!JAM Tickets

In Advance: Single Day - $23, Weekend Pass - $40
At the Door: Single Day - $28, Weekend Pass - $50
VIP Tickets: Weekend - $100 Find out about VIP Program here

Check Jubilee!JAM for all the extra info on parking, capacity, items that are allowed, etc.

Click the continue below for an up-to-date set-list. 

This is another reminder that the High Sierra Music Festival discounted tickets sale will end this coming Monday, May the 19th. Tickets are still available for $157.00 USD and available to purchase directly online. High Sierra Tickets

The 18^th Annual High Sierra Music Festival is held annually in Quincy, California, July 3-6, 2008. The Festival is 4 days, 4 nights, and over 75 artists on 5 stages along with activities that suit everyone's idea of fun.

Check out all of our previous entries and information about High Sierra Music Festival! 

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Jambase.com has posted an article this past week about MerleFest which took place April 24th - 27th. MerleFest takes place in Wilkesboro, North Carolina at Wilkesboro Community College and was founded in 1988. It seems that MerleFest might be one of the longest running music festivals in the United States.

Check out the article in particular at the link below:

Jambase.com at MerleFest 2008

The article was written by Anson Burtch and all photos were taken by Willa Stein. Please leave a comment or send these folks your feedback and let them know that you appreciate their efforts. Thanks so much for this article!

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If you have not already heard, Las Tortugas III will be taking place in Groveland, California at the Evergreen Lodge from October 30th - November 2nd.  If you dont have halloween plans as of yet I would strongly recommend looking into this event. 

Headliners this year will include Tea Leaf Green, Hot Buttered Rum, Blue Turtle Seduction, JGB featuring Melvin Seals, Lebo from ALO as well as Guitarmageddon.  Click below for the full lineup.

They are having the Annual Halloween costume contest, The Evergreen Fire-Pit Parade and many other activites and nightly themes. Tons of amenities will be available including a General Store, Bath House, historic tavern and more.

There are cabins and onsite camps available that go on sale TODAY!  To reserve please call the Evergreen Lodge at 209-379-2606.  There is a 3 day minimum on Cabins and Custom Camping, where gear is provided by the Lodge. There is a 2 day minimum on reserved ‘do it yourself’ Camping. There is also a 25% discount on 4th and 5th night cabin stays.

Early-Bird tickets are now available at evergreenhalloween.inticketing.com. Prices will however go up on July 1st. 

Everything I have heard about the previous years has been nothing but amazing. It sounds like they are really pulling out all the stops this year.  Hope to see you all there!

Bonnaroo recently announced a contest they are running that is very similar to the Carpoolchella contest that Coachella held this year and has in years past.

If you arrive at Bonnaroo with four or more friends in your vehicle you will be automatically eligible to win VIP ticket upgrades for each person in your car to Bonnaroo 2008.

In order to be eligible for this contest you must carpool like mentioned above and also follow these instructions: Print out this PDF or write CARPOOLING TO THE ROO on an 8 x 10 sheet of paper and put it at your windshield. We'll have spotters on Thursday and Friday at the tollbooths picking out cars at random. All winners will get on-the-spot VIP upgrades for the festival. - Bonnaroo.com Contest Page

Bonnaroo in 2008 will take place June 12 - 15 on a 700+ acre farm in Manchester, Tennessee just 60 miles southeast of Nashville. Bonnaroo features over 100 artists and comedians on multiple stages - the main stage has a staggering 100,000 person capacity.

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Bumbershoot - Seattle's Music & Arts Festival has added another group of artists and bands to their lineup for the 2008 festival. Bumbershoot is an annual international arts and music festival that is held at Seattle Center - a 74 acre property that was originally built for the 1962 World's Fair.

The artists announced late yesterday are:

• The All-American Rejects
• Paramore
• Band of Horses
• The Black Keys
• Sons & Daughters and Estelle
  

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