CBGB Festival Announced, July 5-8 in NYC: Music, Film, Conference & Spirits
The hallowed CBGB name lives again in New York City! The first CBGB Festival has been announced, and will take place July 5-8 in venues across Manhattan and Brooklyn.
Emerging music has a friend once again in CBGB, this time in festival form.
Visit cbgb.com for more details. According to the organizers, the four-day festival will be “a fantastic mixture of emerging artist showcases, music business conferences, rock and roll film screenings and industry panel discussions and a whiskey fest to be remembered!”
Sounds awesome to us! Here’s more:
Music: CBGB Festival will be presenting emerging artist showcases in over 20 venues in Manhattan and Brooklyn on July 5th and 6th.
Film: CBGB Festival will present two days of film screenings of some of the best rock film/documentaries ever made and some that have never been seen in New York before.
Conference: CBGB Festival will be presenting two days of music business/industry veterans of various panels that will be educated/informing/guiding young artists on how to succeed in today’s ever-changing music business.
Spirits: CBGB Festival will be bringing a new twist to the music conference/festival arena with a full-day Spirits Festival in downtown New York City on Sunday, July 8th that will incorporate some the best distillers of artisan spirits.
Read even more background on how this welcome new addition to the NYC festival landscape came into being in this article in the NY Times, by James C. McKinley Jr. and Stephen Rex Brown.
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