List of jam band music festivals

This is a list of jam band music festivals. This list may have some overlap with list of historic rock festivals and list of reggae festivals. Jam bands are musical groups who relate to a unique fan culture that began in the 1960s with Grateful Dead (see deadheads), and continued with The Allman Brothers Band, which had lengthy jams at concerts. The performances of these bands typically feature extended musical improvisation ("jams") over rhythmic grooves and chord patterns, and long sets of music that can often cross genre boundaries.

While the seminal group Grateful Dead are categorized as psychedelic rock,The Grateful Dead Britannica Online, Retrieved 17 September 2007 by the 1990s the term "jam band" was being used for groups playing a variety of rock-related genres, and jam band festival lineups could include blues, country music, folk music, and funk. Today the term even includes some groups completely outside rock, such as those playing world music, electronic music, progressive bluegrass, and jazz fusion. A unique feature of the jam band scene is bands allowing fan taping or digital recording of live concerts.

List of festivals

United States + Festival name City/venue State Debut Notes10,000 Lakes Festival Detroit Lakes Minnesota 2003 Defunct All Good Music Festival Thornville Ohio 1997 Defunct Bonnaroo Music Festival Manchester Tennessee 2002 Initially founded as a jam band festival, but has expanded to other genres since Camp Bisco Scranton Pennsylvania 1999 Finger Lakes GrassRoots Festival of Music and Dance Trumansburg New York 1991 Gathering of the Vibes Bridgeport Connecticut 1996 DefunctGrateville Dead Fest Louisville Kentucky 2015 Hangout Music Festival Gulf Shores Alabama 2010 High Sierra Music Festival Quincy California 1991 Hookahville Kirkersville Ohio 1994 Langerado Fort Lauderdale Florida 2003 DefunctLockn' Festival Arrington Virginia 2013 moe.down Turin New York 2000 Mountain Jam Hunter Mountain New York 2004 The Peach Music Festival Scranton Pennsylvania 2012 Rothbury Music Festival Rothbury Michigan 2008 Schwagstock Shannon County Missouri 1992 DefunctSummer Camp Music Festival Chillicothe Illinois 2001 Summer Jam at Watkins Glen Watkins Glen New York 1973 One-off eventSummer Meltdown Darrington Washington 2000 Telluride Bluegrass Festival Telluride Colorado 1973 Vegoose Las Vegas Nevada 2005 Defunct Wakarusa Music and Camping Festival Ozark Arkansas 2004 Defunct Wanee Festival Live Oak Florida 2005

List of jam band music festivals

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