Festival

The 2013 Kanrocksas Music Festival scheduled for June 28 and 29 and the Kansas Speedway has been cancelled due to insufficient ticket sales.  The festival included many big names in electronic and indie music, including fun., Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Pretty Lights, Tiesto, Passion Pit, MGMT, The Avett Brothers and more.

I'm going to take a break from radio story time to let you know how you can win some tickets to the Lions Club Blues and BBQ Festival.  The festival is on June 1 and will be held at the Swine Pavilion on the Missouri State Fairgrounds.

Keeping track of the ever-expanding number of summer music festivals just got a little more difficult, thanks to the folks at LivingSocial. The location-based deals website is organizing its own event, dubbed the Backyard Festival, and they're busily lining up an impressive list of performers.

Chris Koetting was on my show this morning to announce the music lineup for the 2013 Blues Cruise and BBQ Festival.  This year's event will be held on June 1.

With Alice in Chains and Jane's Addiction as headliners, the 2013 Rockstar Energy Drink Uproar Festival tour promises to be one of the hardest-rocking shows of the summer. Ultimate Classic Rock is teaming up with Alice in Chains and our sister sites Loudwire and Diffuser.fm to offer a flyaway trip for two to Phoenix, Ariz. for the Sept. 13 stop, including an opportunity to meet Alice in Chains! Re

Downtown Sedalia was the happening place to be on Saturday (April 13) with the very first Carpe Diem Festival in Sedalia. The 2012 Mayor’s Junior Civic Leaders Group chose the Carpe Diem Festival as their initiative project.

Eric Clapton may have said that he's going to give up touring when he turns 70 in 2015, he's still interested in changing things up now and then. Sources say that he has a few surprises in store during his Crossroads Guitar Festival at Madison Square Garden later this month.

Something heavy is headed for Lincoln, Mo. in May, and BOB listeners who prefer the more rockin' end of the "whatever we want" we like to play need to check out this event.  The Missouri Big Ass Rock Festival on May 17-19 will include 25+ bands, camping and a whole lot of partying over three days at the Walters Ranch. Some of these bands may be a little off the beaten path for you, but a

While Tom Petty's official 2013 touring calendar is still empty, it's been confirmed he'll headline the Hangout Music Festival in Gulf Shores, Ala. this spring. The full lineup for the festival was announced this week, with Kings of Leon named as a second headliner for the three-day festival.

Well, the Roots N Blues N BBQ Festival gets started today, with the headliner being Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros taking the main stage around 10 p.m.  Saturday is the big day, and the shows start around noon.  I'm looking forward to seeing the new King of the Roots Band and of course the man, the myth, the legend: The Reverend Al Green.