Phish to host two-day festival in Vermont
Jam-band Phish has unveiled plans to host its latest large-scale camping and music event, which for the first time will take place in the group's home state of Vermont.
The two-day music and arts festival, dubbed Coventry, will take place Aug. 14-15 on the grounds of the Newport State Airport and adjacent fields in the town of Coventry, VT, the band and promoter Great Northeast Productions announced.
Organizers expect the event will draw enough fans to qualify as Vermont's most-populated city for the weekend.
As with Phish's previous festivals, the band will play three sets during each day of Coventry. No other acts are on the bill. On-site camping will be available, and various attractions and art installations will be scattered throughout the festival grounds.
Tickets will first go on sale Thursday (5/20) via the Phish Tickets website. Beginning on Friday at 9 a.m. ET, tickets will also go on sale via Ticketmaster, according to Coventry organizers. (Ticketmaster is liveDaily's parent company.)
In an attempt to manage traffic coming into the event, gates for parking and camping will open at noon on Aug. 12. More logistical information is posted at Phish's website.
Previous Phish festivals--all co-produced by the band with Great Northeast Productions--have been held at Limestone, ME's former Loring Air Force Base, New York's former Plattsburgh Air Force Base, and New York's Oswego County Airport. The band's latest festival was held in 1999, when it played a New Year's Eve event for 80,000 fans at the Florida Everglades' Big Cypress Seminole Reservation, to celebrate the millennium.
Coventry will conclude Phish's brief summer tour, which will visit seven cities in June and August.
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19, 20 - Saratoga Springs, NY - Saratoga Performing Arts Center
23, 24 - Noblesville, IN - Verizon Wireless Music Center
25, 26 - East Troy, WI - Alpine Valley
August 2004
10, 11 - Mansfield, MA - Tweeter Center
12 - Camden, NJ - Tweeter Center
14, 15 - Coventry, VT - Newport State Airport
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