The drive to Night Lights consists of winding hills, endless woods, and a considerable amount of horse-drawn carriages.
Upon arrival, you can expect to be greeted by the gatekeeper with a genuine “Welcome home!” If you’re lucky, you might also have a friendly encounter with the Parking Wizard.
The Heron takes an entirely different form when the sun goes down. The trees are lit up all throughout the woods, creating a breathtaking atmosphere. And last but not least, the musicians that brought the NLMF family together.
Greenvibe Entertainment cannot seem to contain themselves for the upcoming Wild Woods Festival in Croyden, NH, and who can blame them? This year is set to be the best yet, and on Aug. 11 – 13, Page Farm will host this small festival that packs a lot of heart.
The team has been hard at work, adding an entire new building for the beautiful art that will be on display all weekend. They’ve also welcomed back The Reliquarium to add their incredible works of art to each stage. Their intricately designed stage setups are custom made and add much to each set. Because of the Lotus will have one of their mind-melting visual art installations on site, and you can be sure there will be plenty of performance artists dancing, hooping, and fire-spinning, as The What Collective will be in attendance.
Wild Woods has added heavy hitters Emancipator and Papadosio as the headliners this year. There are many familiar faces with Kung Fu, Lespecial, Strange Machines, Of The Trees, and Harsh Armadillo returning for another year at the farm. This festival has become a staple in a lot of these band’s summer tours and you can be sure they’re going to add a little extra energy to their sets. The list of musical talent continues with Cabinet, Roots of Creation, Govinda, and Broccoli Samurai being just a few of the other notable mentions.
Wild Woods has a very special vibe going down on the little farm in New Hampshire. You can tell the thing they care about most is the fans. Between the live art, visual displays, amazing stage setups, and a lineup that just won’t quit, what else could you ask for? Well, how about a whole extra night to set up and relax with your friends? This year (for a fee) you’ll be allowed early entry into the festival on Thursday, Aug. 10 to claim the best spot for you and yours. Tickets are still available and can be purchased at the Wild Woods website. Get them before Aug. 10 to save yourself $20.
Patrons, staff, volunteers and artists at the Mad Tea Party jam have reported a multitude of illnesses over the weekend. Many attendees of the three day event reported sickness through social media that prevented performances and sent several people to the hospital. The festival was held at the Four Quarters Interfaith Sanctuary in Artemis, Pa.
Mad Tea Party released a statement via their Facebook Page on Sunday evening.
Despite our best efforts to maintain the health safety of our patrons, people were falling ill. We ourselves are seeking any and all answers. The Pennsylvania Center of Epidemiology has been contacted by the venue in order to properly ascertain what has happened this past weekend. In order to better understand and identify the issue and better yet, how to fix this issue, we are openly asking people to report their own health issues to the Pennsylvania board of health. Please call this number in order to aid us. 1-877-PA HEALTH
We will be posting more information as it is received.
Headliner Papadosio was forced to cancel their third and final performance of the weekend which was scheduled for Saturday night. Three of the band’s five members were reportedly too ill to perform.
Ona Hogarty of Bedford, PA was taken to the emergency room at War Memorial Hospital in Berkley Springs, PA. She reported to NYS Music that doctors there gave her a dysentery diagnosis. She said doctors noted that dysentery is often given as a broad term diagnosis to stomach viruses accompanied by bloody stools. Hogarty is awaiting test results to further explain her illness.
Online accounts point to a potential Norovirus outbreak. Although the symptoms match reports from sick attendees, NYS Music has been unable to confirm the official cause of the weekend’s illnesses. Symptoms were reported as early as Friday morning. Norovirus is often the cause of mass outbreaks in nursing homes, cruise ships and daycare centers.
A similar situation was reported at last weekend’s WickerMan Burn. A pinned post on the WickerMan Burn Facebook group early Sunday morning, dated June 16, read:
The organization team and the 4QF board of directors are sympathetic and full of compassion for those who got sick after WickerMan. You have all already heard that we test the water and septic systems, that we bleached everything we could as often as we could, and that some number of people still got sick. We can’t go back into the event and change the fact that a highly contagious illness got passed around.
However, by Sunday evening, the post was updated with the above text deleted. Only an explanation about norovirus and stomach bugs remained from the original post. Several post in the group were made, questioning the link between the illnesses over the two different weekends.
Although the venue has signs posted about norovirus prevention at the showers, the venue offered no other warning about potential issues from the previous weekend.
While the organizers of Mad Tea Party Jam have been open with its patrons, Four Quarter’s has been silent about the situation. Over the past two days, long-time attendees of the grounds are commenting on their positive experiences in vast numbers, which has some of the sick attendees crying fowl. Brooke Lown of Richmond, Va, who became ill early Saturday morning told NYS Music, “It’s really upsetting and makes me feel like we are going to have to try hard for this to be taken seriously and be addressed. They are all trying to play it off like we don’t have personal hygiene and are just some dirty hippies who are always bound to get this sick at fests.”
This story is developing and NYS Music will bring you the latest developments. Request for comments from Mad Tea Party Jam and Four Quarters Interfaith Sanctuary are pending. The Pennsylvania Department of Health is working to provide accurate data on the total number of cases reported, both over the weekend and throughout the venue’s history.
Catskill Chill festival lovers received a disappointing announcement that the fest is going on hiatus for 2017. Fans have been waiting for an announcement on 2017’s Catskill Chill Festival since the stage lights extinguished on 2016’s festival Sept. 25. Hoping for a lineup and date announcement for 2017, fans received the opposite news instead. Festival lovers can only hope the festival returns in 2018.
After seven years, Catskill Chill will take a hiatus in 2017. In a post to fans on social media, the Chillfam team reflected on how the festival brought people together and the one of a kind atmosphere that the festival created. The Chillfam team also thanked everyone from fans, vendors, bands/artist, volunteers, venues, promoters and media, who have supported the festival since its inception in September 2010.
One thing the festival promoters did not state in the post was why the festival would not take place, just stating that they needed to take a step back and that they will be be announcing Chillfam parties throughout the northeast real soon.
Many jamband favorites have played the festival throughout the years including Mike Gordon, George Clinton & Parliamant/Funkadelic, Greensky Bluegrass, Lettuce, moe., Twiddle, Dopapod, Kung Fu, Nth Power, Papadosio, and Pink Talking Fish to name a few.
Below is the festival’s statement issued through Facebook regarding the hiatus:
The drive to Night Lights consists of winding hills, endless woods, and a considerable amount of horse-drawn carriages.
Mad Tea Party released a statement via their 
While the organizers of Mad Tea Party Jam have been open with its patrons, Four Quarter’s has been silent about the situation. Over the past two days, long-time attendees of the grounds are commenting on their positive experiences in vast numbers, which has some of the sick attendees crying fowl. Brooke Lown of Richmond, Va, who became ill early Saturday morning told NYS Music, “It’s really upsetting and makes me feel like we are going to have to try hard for this to be taken seriously and be addressed. They are all trying to play it off like we don’t have personal hygiene and are just some dirty hippies who are always bound to get this sick at fests.”