Asbury Park music festival: Daily lineups announced for big Sea Hear Now on the beach
Chris JordanIt’s two days in September that are going to rock the North Beach in Asbury Park.
Daily lineups for the Danny Clinch co-produced inaugural Sea Hear Now music, art and surf festival were announced on Wednesday, July 11.
Incubus, Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals, Brandi Carlile, Blondie, Frank Turner and the Sleeping Souls, Highly Suspect, Soja, the English Beat, Jesse Malin, Deer Tick, Carl Broemel, the Battery Electric, the Tangiers Blues Band and more will play on Saturday, Sept. 29.
Jack Johnson, Social Distortion, Milky Chance, Kaleo, the Front Bottoms, Nicole Atkins, the Menzingers, Lettuce, Langhorne Slim, G. Love and Special Sauce, the Original Wailers, Twin Peaks, Rayland Baxter, Parlor Mob and Deal Casino play on Sept. 30.
More than 25 bands will play on three stages over the weekend, and professional surfers Sam Hammer, Balaram Stack, Rob Kelly, Quincy Davis, Mike Gleason, Andrew Gesler, Pat Schmidt, Clay Polliomi. Tom Ihmkem and Cassidy McCalin will participate in “Expression Sessions” while the music plays. There is also a visual arts component.
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“Sea Hear Now is a longtime dream of ours. To have our musician, surfer and artist friends come to Asbury Park this September to play some music, ride some waves and make some art,” festival curator Danny Clinch said previously in a statement. “We come from the Jersey Shore and we believe in Asbury Park. It is one of the coolest beach cities in America, if not the world. We are ready to go!”
The fest is being produced by Clinch’s Between The Sets and C3 Presents, the team behind Lollapalooza, Austin City Limits Music Festival, Shaky Festivals and more.
Clinch is the Toms River native who has photographed the greats of music, from Bruce Springsteen to Tupac Shakur. He curates the scene at the Transparent Gallery, inside the Asbury Hotel, where his work is shown and local and national acts play.
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The Bamboozle festival, which starred Bon Jovi, the Foo Fighters, Skrillex and Incubus, took place on the North Beach in 2012 and the Indian Summer festival, on the Anchor’s Bend/Jams on the Sand stage north of Convention Hall, has been bringing national acts onto the beach since 2014.
This year’s Indian Summer is scheduled for Sept. 15 and 16.
Two-day tickets for Sea Hear Now are $99, with a $29 layaway option up front. No individual day tickets will be sold. Tickets are on sale via www.seahearnowfestival.com.
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