Mark Your Calendar: Waking Windows Festival

 By Charlie Moorin All these goddam festival announcements, and I’ve got nothing to show: flight, tickets, hotel, food, drugs, alcohol, that shit adds up! Imagine my surprise when I came across a tiny arts festival, running in its 4th year, Waking Windows. Waking Windows takes place in Winooski, Vermont, just south of Burlington. Local, regional […]

Bonnaroo Announcing 2014 Line-up Tonight

By Daniel Schiffer Bonnaroo 2014 (running June 12-15 in the usual spot down in Manchester, TN) is upon us! Rumors have been a flying and it’s looking like Sir Kanye and Elton John might be headlining. The full lineup will be revealed tonight at an event at 9PM on Bonnaroo.com or via an Xbox app […]

The Ups and Ehs of Newport Folk Festival 2013

Newport is a hell of a place, and along with its insurmountable summer atmosphere comes a bounty of tradition and history. That sense of tradition has carried over into the resort town’s premiere summer event: the Newport Folk Festival. While recent years have reflected a stretch towards other genres, 2013 went back to the Festival’s roots and remained more tethered to the standard perception of folk.

The Great Googa Mooga (Prospect Park 5/17 – 5/19)

By Neil Patch Photos by Daniel Schiffer While rain ultimately defeated Prospect Park’s Great Googa Mooga in its second year of existence, and it successfully demonstrated a model of how to combine a neighborhood community festival with wider regional (and perhaps national) attention. Googa Mooga bills itself as an “amusement park of food, salve drink […]