NYS Music 202​0

Category: Festival News

  • moe. Miracle Mile Drive-In Concert Cancelled

    The moe. Miracle Mile Drive-In concert was cancelled days before it’s shows on July 31 and Aug. 1. by venue management on July 29 due to safety concerns. Vernon Downs Casino Hotel was scheduled to host the performances but abruptly changed their minds with continuing concerns revolving around the COVID-19 pandemic. 

    Organizers of the event stated that, “Despite putting a comprehensive health and safety plan in place for the events, Vernon Downs management made the preemptive decision to not allow the concerts to be held on-site due to the continuing health and safety concerns surrounding the global COVID-19 pandemic,” according to the article in Observer-Dispatch.

    The band announced via their Facebook that their moe. Miracle Mile Drive-In would have to be canceled due to the short notice given to them by Vernon Downs Casino Hotel. They also stated that refunds will be automatically issued by Ticketmaster to all original ticket purchasers. 

    https://www.facebook.com/moe.org/posts/10158496404552438

    The promoter of the show, Creative Concerts Inc, states in their Facebook post that Vernon Downs Casino Hotel breached their contract and forced the show to be canceled. “We’re devastated by this turn of events and are still committed to bringing safe socially distanced events to upstate and central NY….Thank you for being so supportive of our efforts hopefully we can find a new venue in the near future that will honor their promises and commitment,” stated Chuck Chao, President of Creative Concerts Inc.

    https://www.facebook.com/cconcerts/posts/1563077290541928?__xts__[0]=68.ARBysQBqtmVI1EEWey_4SXVWbLpx9pumn6y0VQ6Q-QP9g0WCTErOF_qqwDZ5MDQamprDOmWXq-FoWnwmda8c59oBASeG46E3Lt1ulIUtH16m1f5u5r6MTMtCpLUhI9kprA7zEY7SYoFcFDyzcovdV3R4varDuvQ7f8OBKu_JcMCHABnnQ1nc2YORo67shuQbLqo9uQlJw7jG_NlAPNrIPp9SRuoKU0Vf6_K3kpB02x2BaJAfs5DCWURXqn3FEql_GoA8fd0oZH_GXlKZ6b-3WVk8BJqwO83dTD6uJG9YWuSAoSeDL43m0EmOfUTxV2B8rHwaC6-mq9RhtXaoYliEMDWx-Ltvkre1z-QHh6BMunN_jfDE4vURDqT2ME6V6wcjotTREv-sWqBFt0JLR2nu79fkKHeg2yIctoBP7Lvkho5_cK_2ACfwnslizl-xFj42MoLX1OcejF3qUjGtztSl4GEZCqaJi39rJAu7MC_hSRW3dqjO&__tn__=-R

    moe. also announced that, “While [we] can no longer play for you in a live concert setting, we will still perform for you live via webcast. We have been rehearsing in an historic church-turned-recording studio and will broadcast two full moe. shows from this setting, starting at 7pm on Friday and Saturday evenings. We hope you can join us virtually. For tickets and more information, please visit tourgigs.com/shows” 

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    For more information visit moe.’s website.

  • Summer Camp Music Festival Announces 2021 Lineup

    Summer Camp Music Festival announces their 2021 Lineup for the festival’s 20th Anniversary celebration. The festival will include big names like Ween, Joe Russo’s Almost Dead, Billy Strings, Three Six Mafia, Rezz, STS9, and Tipper. It will take place on May 28 – 30 , 2021 at Three Sisters Park in Chillicothe, IL and will be Sticking closely to the original 2020 lineup. 

    https://www.facebook.com/summercampmusicfestival/videos/839003283173344/

    So far the 2021 line up includes: moe., Umphrey’s McGee, Ween, Joe Russo’s Almost Dead, Billy Strings, Three 6 Mafia, Rezz, STS9, Tipper, Snails, Pigeons Playing Ping Pong, Shpongle (Simon Posford DJ set), The Wood Brothers, Houndmouth, The Floozies, Lettuce, Cherub, Manic Focus, Emancipator, CloZee, Jade Cicada, Boogie T, EOTO, Twiddle, ScaryPoolParty, The Record Company, LSDream, Whipped Cream, Yonder Mountain String Band, Here Come the Mummies, Andy Frasco & The U.N., Aqueous, Badfish, Banyan featuring Stephen Perkins, Willie Waldman and more, Big Something, Boogie T.rio, BoomBox, Break Science, Cycles, Detox Unit, Doom Flamingo, Dopapod, Everyone Orchestra, GG Magree, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades, Keller Williams, Kursa, Kyle Hollingsworth Band, Lawrence, Maddy O’Neal, Marvel Years, Monophonics, Moody Good, Mungion, The New Deal, Papadosio (Microdosio), Ryan Montbleau, Southern Avenue, Spafford, Sunsquabi, The Werks, Aaron Kamm and the One Drops, Brass Against, Chicago Farmer & The Field Notes, Chomppa, Consider the Source, Dogma, Family Groove Company, Fate Nite ft. Brendan Bayliss +, Friends, Filibusta, Funk You, Gangstagrass, GoodSex, Hot Buttered Rum, The Jauntee, Joe Hertler and the Rainbow Seekers, Jon Stickley Trio, K+ Lab, Kitchen Dwellers, Lee Dewyze, LTX, Marcus Rezak’s Shred is Dead, Mike Dillon and Punkadelic, Mize, Neal Francis, Nobide, Old Shoe, Pert Near Sandstone, Porn and Chicken, Red Wanting Blue, Steady Flow, Sun Beard, Sun Stereo, Tropidelic, AHZ, Alison Hanna Band, The Althea Grace Band, APO10, Audiodacity, Backyard Tire Fire, Badman, Barefuzz, Ben Miller Band, DJ Belly, Berth, Biomassive, BluePrint Metro, Bones Jugs, Brainchild, Daniel Rodriguez, Dark Moon Hollow, The Dawn, Dizgo, EGi, Electric Orange Peel, Fall Classic, Fletcher’s Grove, Float Like a Buffalo, Funkstatik, FUX, Guerrilla Theory, The Iceman Special, Ifdakar, Jack Cloonan Band, Joslyn and the Sweet Compression, Junkyard Samurai, JUULS VERNE, Kadela, KVZ, Levity, Little Stranger, Magnolia Boulevard, Medusa, Nicholas Gerlach, The North 41, Positive Vibr8ions, Pushing Daisy’s Band, The Ries Brothers, The Rockstar DJ Tre, Since JulEYE, Still Shine, Stormy Chromer, DJ Tim Williams, Travers Brothership, The Textures, Thee Delinquents, The Tripp Brothers, Trouble Chasin’,TruFeelz, Undercover Organism, Victoria Canal, Vine, Vintage Pistol, WokeZan, Yam Yam, ZOSKA, and more to be announced. 

    Ian Goldberg who is the festival’s founder made the official call to move the 20th anniversary festivities to 2021 last week. Ticket holders will have the option to roll over this year’s pass to next year or receive a refund. People can request refunds from July 13 – 31 st at 11:59pm CST.

    For more information visit Summer Camp Music Festival website.

  • Roll On In Presents Drive-In & Tune In series featuring Honeycomb, The Breakfast and more

    Roll on In will present their live entertainment series Drive-In and Tune In beginning on Friday July 24. The events will deliver the premier destination for a night out of live music and will feature local BBQ and food legends while staying true to the roots of Western Massachusetts.

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    Roll On In stresses the idea of safe live entertainment and has gone through extensive planning over the past months with the help and partnership of industry pro Joel MacKenzie. The weekly, Friday and Saturday evening events will go above and beyond the health guidelines to reduce the spread of COVID-19.

    The live entertainment will kick off with performances from RCA, Danny Pease and The Regultators, Honeycomb, Uncle Bob, The Breakfast, New Mosaic, and Shantyman. Check out more details below.

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  • Summer Sonic Festival Takes to the Virtual Stage

    Summer Sonic Festival announced their 2020 festivities will take to the virtual stage. The festival will live-stream archived performances from big names like Green Day, Nine Inch Nails, Rihanna, Coldplay, The Flaming Lips and many more. The free live-stream starts on July 22 and runs through to July 23 via the Summer Sonic YouTube channel at 7AM EST.

    Summer Sonic Festival is usually held in Osaka and Chiba, Japan at the Makuhari Messe Event Hall. The majority of the bands playing in Osaka the first day and then go to Chiba the following day and vice versa. The festival was founded in 2000 and typically features rock music. This year’s festivities were stopped due to the pandemic but the festival will go on in spirit on the virtual stage.

    The festival won’t be hosting live performances but will show highlights from the past 20 years. The archive performances include Boom Boom Satellites from 200, B’z from 2009, Coldplay from 2008, The Flaming Lips from 2009, Oasis from 2005, Sigur Ros from 2012 and Sonic Youth from 2009 on the July 22. The archive includes Green Day from 2012, Nine Inch Nails from 2009, Rihanna from 2012, The Prodigy from 2008, and X JAPAN from 2011 on July 23. The Summer Sonic archived performances will become available for streaming beginning at 8:00PM Japan time (4:00AM in Los Angeles, 7:00AM in New York) on July 23. The live-stream will free and available everywhere via Summer Sonic Festival’s YouTube channel.

    For more information and to see the full lineup please visit Summer Sonic Festival’s website.


  • CGI Rochester International Jazz Festival Postponed Until 2021

    CGI Rochester International Jazz Festival announced it’s plans to postpone it’s 19th annual festival till 2021. The festival came to this conclusion in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic; it was not safe to be held this year. The jazz fest will take place on  June 18 – 26, 2021.

    Photo provided by CGI Rochester International Jazz Festival’s press release.

    The festival was originally rescheduled  from June 19 – June 27 of 2020 to October 2 – 10, 2020 in hopes the pandemic would subside. Marc Iacona and John Nugent are producers of the festival ended up making the decision like many festivals to ultimately postpone until 2021. “This is the decision we didn’t want to make,” said Iacona and Nugent. They explained their decision to cancel saying, “We held out hope for as long as possible even as most major festivals and concert events around the world were postponing. But as we have now arrived at a critical junction, needing to finalize artists and logistic arrangements, reality has prevailed.”

    With more than 208,000 people attending the nine-day festival annually, coming from more than half of the United States and 20 countries around the world to see 325-plus shows, and 1750-plus artists performing there was no way to make the festival a safe environment in the light of the pandemic. They wouldn’t be able to adhere to the distancing guidelines set. The guidelines would severely reduce venue capacities, likely capped at 25%, if venues were even available. Access would be severely limited, making it impossible to accommodate all patrons.The festival also includes lots of free shows, comprising almost a third of the festival’s shows. These shows in particular would be extremely difficult if not impossible to manage for screening, distancing, and oversight.

    The Good news is that the festival has been able to reschedule the headliner shows, originally scheduled for this year. Both Puss N Boots and Spyro Gyra from their postponed 19th Edition will be featured in the 2021 edition. Puss N Boots will perform on Friday, June 18, 2021. Spyro Gyra will play Tuesday, June 22, 2021. For those who hold tickets for those shows, tickets and selected seats are saved and are automatically valid for these rescheduled shows. Ticket holders do not need to do anything further. For those who wish to purchase tickets for those two shows, they are on sale now on their website.

    For more information please visit CGI Rochester International Jazz Festival’s website.

  • GrassRoots Festival Hosts “Your Roots at Home” Live-Stream

    Finger Lakes GrassRoots Festival of Music and Dance announces their “Your Roots at Home” free streaming event. The streaming event will host curated footage from former years of the festival and will run July 16-19, 2020 everyday roughly from 10AM-3AM. 

    The event will be following the same structure the GrassRoots Festival has followed for many years. The streaming event will host four days with four separate streams for each stage of the festival. The curated footage comes from all the way from 1992 up to 2019 with footage from last year. The footage will show each band performing at either the Infield, Dance Tent, Grandstand, or Cabaret stages. 

    The stream will host GrassRoots favorites like Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad, Big Mean Sound Machine, Donna the Buffalo, Old Crow Medicine Show, Preston Frank & His Zydeco Family Band, The Horse Flies, Driftwood, GrassRoots Festival Orchestra, Uma Galera, Lake Street Dive, John Brown’s Body, Jimkata, Ithaca Bottom Boys, Bubba George Stringband and many many many more. The full lineup can be seen here.

    The event will host the Band Contest and Instrument Contest still which will make it an interactive event. People interested in performing during the contests can perform their song specifically for the audience at the “Your Roots At Home” event. People interested can record videos of themselves and upload their media here.

    The streaming events can be viewed stage by stage on Twitch. The Infield stage can be viewed here. The Dance Tent stage can be viewed here. The grandstand Stage can be viewed here. The Cabaret stage can be viewed here. The viewer doesn’t need a Twitch account to listen but an account will give you access to the chat feature and other services.

    For more information visit “Your Roots at Home” website and Finger Lakes GrassRoots Festival of Music and Dance website. 

  • Adirondack Independence Music Festival Hosts “Drive-In Jam Out” Event

    Adirondack Independence Music Festival has announced the “Drive-In Jam Out” event to take place in Lake George at Charles R. Woods Commons on July 31 and August 1 and 2, 2020.

    Adirondack Independence Music Festival

    The “Drive-In Jam Out” event will follow like many or the drive-in festivals before them. People will be confined to and around their cars during the festival to keep social distancing a priority. The hope is to give that festival feeling to their audience while keeping everyone as safe as possible during the COVID-19 Pandemic. One of the cool features of this drive-in festival though is that it is a multiple day festival. Although the festival won’t be having their own campground they encourage participants to “make your room or camping reservations now!” via their Facebook Page announcement. They recommend “Holiday Inn Resort Lake George for the finest and closest accommodations” for people looking to reserve somewheres to stay for over the weekend. 

    Performers haven’t been announced yet but they plan to drop a major bomb on details of the festival on July 20. Hopefully it will include a lineup and ticket prices. The announcement is the first of many according to Adirondack Independence Music Festival’s Facebook Page. Some information that was already released was the location of the drive-in event. It will be taking place at Charles R. Wood Commons in Lake George, NY. 

    Adirondack Independence Music Festival is still currently scheduled to take place on September 5-6, 2020. On the announcement on their Facebook Page the festival replied to comments asking if the Labor day weekend festival was going to happen and said, “We will be doing these[Drive-In Jam Out events]  labor day weekend as well.” So it’s safe to guess the format of this event will most likely be followed in September. 

    For more information on the Adirondack Independence Music Festival and their “Drive-In Jam Out” Event visit their Facebook Page and Website.

  • Better Noise Music Festival to Stream Worldwide

    Better Noise Music, the independent music label, announces the Better Noise Music Festival on July 16. The festival will benefit Global Recovery Initiatives Foundation which provides support services for people in early recovery from substance use disorders. The festival will feature live performances, unseen footage and more. 

    The Better Noise Music Festival has an impressive line-up of new and classic performances, artist messages and sneak peeks at two Better Noise Films projects slated for the fall. The films are Sno Babies and The Retaliators. The line-up includes big names like Motley Crue, Five Finger Death Punch, and the Dirty Heads.

    The full line-up includes: Motley Crue, Five Finger Death Punch, Papa Roach, Awolnation, Cory Marks, Dirty Heads, The Hu, Bad Wolves, Escape The Fate, From Ashes To New, Fire From The Gods, Bleeker, Tuk Smith, Islander, All Good Things, Hyro The Hero, Eva Under Fire, Nevrlands. Little Stranger, Tempt, The Bottom Line, and Thousand Thoughts.

    The festival will air worldwide on July 16 at the following times: 3PM PST, 5PM CST, 6PM EST, 11PM BST, and 12AM CET. The festival will air at 8AM ACT on July 17. The event is in partnership with LiveXLive. All live streamed performances will be simulcast by LiveXLive on YouTube, Facebook, Twitch and Twitter. Proceeds will benefit the Global Recovery Initiatives Foundation (GRI) to provide support services for those in early recovery from a substance use disorder.

    For more information on the festival please visit Better Noise Music’s website and LiveXLive’s website. 

    Check out this stream and more through our series NY Stream and Support, where you’ll discover artists around the Empire State streaming nightly, and ways to support musicians and charitable groups close to home!

  • Summer Camp Music Festival Postponed to 2021

    After the recent spike in Coronavirus cases, the Summer Camp Music Festival has decided to postpone their 20th anniversary concert to Memorial Day weekend 2021. 

    For the past 19 years, the Summer Camp Music Festival in Illinois has been held on Memorial Day weekend to kick off summer with a bang. Because of the Coronavirus pandemic, this year’s festival was postponed. Although organizers and staff hoped that it could take place later this summer, the festival has been pushed back to Memorial Day weekend 2021 as Illinois will not be in Phase 5 of the reopening process this August and therefore cannot safely hold the concert. Ian Goldbreg, founder of the Summer Camp music festival, states that the staff holds “the health and safety of you, our fans, and our dedicated staff as our number one concern.”

    Despite this setback, plans for next year’s festival are already in the works. While some artists are “still working out details,” the majority of this summer’s lineup has confirmed that they will perform at the 20th anniversary festival in 2021. Additionally, all tickets for this year’s festival will roll over and be good for 2021. If you cannot make it next year, refunds will be available starting on July 13 and ending on July 30, 2020. 

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    Although it has been a very difficult decision, Goldberg comments: “I felt I was acting in the best interest of the many people who dedicate their lives to this event every year, knowing all along I would never put those lives in jeopardy if the situation did not prove to allow for a safe event.” The festival is great for all music fans, with crowd favorites moe. and Umphrey’s McGee headlining. The 2020 lineup was supposed to include other artists like Ween, Joe Russo’s Almost Dead, Billy Strings, Rezz, STS9, Tipper, and more. 

    Fans of the festival wait for it to come back “even bigger and better” on May 28-30, 2021. Until then, check out NYSMusic’s coverage of the festival’s recent years: 2019, 2018, and 2017.

  • Rock the Dock and Eastbound Throwdown festivals cancel for 2020

    Two beloved music festivals in the 518 will not return until 2021 due to COVID-19. Rock the Dock, held in Lake George, and Eastbound Throwdown, held in Salem, have each postponed their scheduled events until next year

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    Originally scheduled for July 17, then rescheduled for August 14, the festival was looking forward to their fourth year at Lake George Steamboat Company, but have made plans for July 23, 2021 to hold the annual event.

    Founded by Formula 5 in 2017 as a way to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the Lake George Steamboat Company, the band played their final show on July 12, 2019 at Rock the Dock. The festival hosts regional and national acts with a stage on the pier of the Lake George Steamboat Company, with three steamboats framing the event.

    Keyboardist Matt Richards of Formula 5 was slated to return with Annie in the Water for this year’s installment, but that will have to wait another year. Other announced artists included Dogs in a Pile, Raisinhead, and Big Time Kitty.

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    Eastbound Throwdown, hosted by beloved Northern rock outfit Eastbound Jesus, was scheduled to take place September 11-12, 2020. New dates have not been announced, and only Eastbound Jesus was announced for the lineup this year. Past lineups have included The Mallett Brothers Band, Girl Blue, Driftwood, Formula 5, The Ghost of Paul Revere, among many others.