Shane & Gabe have a dream. A dream to host the raddest festival that ever existed.
That’s the intro to one of the latest kickstarter music projects that caught my eye. I got to hand it to these two dudes, they certainly know how to dream big! Coordinating with the folks at Underwater Peoples Records, Shane and Gabe have decided to crank their music love affair to 11 and are trying to put on a very impressive one-day, listener-funded festival in upstate New York.
No doubt the largest obstacle this festival needs to overcome is the $65,000 that must be raised in a one month time frame — an amount that, according to a back-of-an-envelope calculation, equates to sixty-two $35 tickets sold daily — however, the coordinators seem undaunted by the challenge. Smartly, the group has already launched a kickstarter page to help generate funds, resulting in a type of transparency you don’t usually get with events of this magnitude. Not only can you track in real-time how many attendees the festival will have (something a data nerd like myself loves), but you also get a rough break-down of the expenditures: sound & lights = $4000, venue rental = $3000, and, impressively, $48750 = band fees, just to name a few.
So far the line-up includes:
- Islands
- HEALTH
- Real Estate
- Phantogram
- Woods
- Pill Wonder
- Family Portrait
- Julian Lynch
- Summer Camp
- Cults
- Eternal Summers
- Memoryhouse
- Yip Yip
Unfortunately, the most notable absentee (and Underwater Peoples alum) is the festival’s namesake: Mountain Man. But with line-up additions occurring somewhat regularly, there is a chance this might be remedied.
So if you know you’ll be in New York or a surrounding state on Saturday, July 24, do yourself a favor and reserve your ticket now and check out the most kickass festival Saratoga Springs, NY has ever seen!
