NorthEast Kingdom Music Festival
The sixth annual NorthEast Kingdom Music Festival will take place at the Chilly Ranch in Albany, Vermont on August 1 & 2, 2008. This festival has hosted some great artists in the past, including Soulive, Hieroglyphics, Oteil Burbridge, Fishbone, Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra, Crown City Rockers, The Slip, The Perceptionists and The Coup. I checked it out in 2006 and saw a small, gypsy-punk band that has had some recent success (Gogol Bordello). The lineup will be announced in May. Check out the message posted about halfway down the festival’s homepage for a great description of the environment and scene.
The Northeast Kingdom Music Festival is a multi-stage, independent, grassroots festival that eschews big corporate sponsorship and does not believe in selling water to its attendees. The Northeast Kingdom Music Festival was created to bring back the old-school vibe, where a family event was not necessarily watered down and a good party did not mean a total lack of consciousness. The festival attracts a non-traditional, multi-aged festival crowd to a site that is both intimate and epic in its proportions.
Leave a Reply