After a one-year journey, The Big Up Music & Arts Festival returns for the summer of 2013.

Shireworks Productions, producer of The Big Up Music and Arts Festival, has shared a transmission received from The Big Up Mothership, who reported it had been traveling in outer space since the end of the 2011 festival, when it got sucked into a wormhole and then spit out into a previously undiscovered frontier.

Christmas in the Smokies announces their 2012 festival with special guest Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver. The festival will be December 12-15th, 2012. Enjoy all the bright and colorful Christmas decorations located in downtown Pigeon Forge and help enjoy in the wonderful Christmas spirit. Workshops will be held on all instruments for only $25.

Summer Camp Music Festival has just announced the Trey Anastasio Band will perform 2 full sets at next year's festival.  This is just the first announcement of what is likely to be yet another stellar Summer Camp Festival.

On Sunday, 14 July 2013 the Ghent Jazz Festival will be presenting “Zorn at 60”, a project by John Zorn in the theme of his sixtieth birthday. John Zorn (1953) saxophonist, composer, conductor and producer will turn sixty on 2 September. To celebrate that birthday, he developed a complete programme, together with musician friends, under the name “Zorn at 60”.

For the international juggernaut known as SWEDISH HOUSE MAFIA, it will end where it all began.  The trio will wrap their final One Last Tour at both weekends of the 15th annual ULTRA MUSIC FESTIVAL, set for March 15, 16 and 17 and March 22, 23 and 24, 2013 at Bayfront Park in Miami, FL.  They will bookend the festival with sets on the opening and closing nights on Friday, March 15 and Sunday, March

Moogfest 2012 is over, but the memory doesn't need to fade! NPR Music made it out again this year, and they've recapped their highlights, as well as documented some select performances from the festival.

AURA Music Events has unveiled the next phase of the 2013 AURA Music & Arts Festival musical line-up which includes 15 stellar acts to compliment the four headliners already announced this summer. In addition to two sets from Papadosio, Conspirator (ft. Marc Brownstein & Aron Magner of the Disco Biscuits), Perpetual Groove and The Heavy Pets, fans can indulge in two performances by Dopapod and Kung Fu including the premier of Kung Fu’s tribute to Stevie Wonder featuring the Royal Family’s Nigel Hall.

Despite torrential winds, hard rain and mud pits, I survived Yonder Mountain String Band’s Harvest Music Festival along with about 5,000 other bluegrass lovers. The weekend was filled with fiddles, foot-stompin’ and delicious falafels.

Simply put, pretty, is the location.  Smiles, sounds and relaxation are the destination. To be more specific Shakori Hills Grassroots Festival of Music and Dance is located approximately fifteen to twenty miles from the intersection of U.S. 15-501 and U.S.

On Tuesday, October 9^th, 2012, Jimmy Tebeau, bassist for the Grateful Dead tribute band The Schwag and most recently JGB, was sentenced to 30 months in prison for the crime of “maintaining drug-involved premises” on his 350-acre farm in a rural county in Missouri.  The government closed down the farm, which was known as Camp Zoe and home to the music festival Schwagstock