(Ghent, NY) The Big Up Music & Arts Festival has unveiled their Phase Three lineup announcement adding fifteen more acts to the festival along with a special Kung Fu Tribute Set to Prince featuring Jans Ingber of The Motet. You can also expect several other surprise guests because “We don’t give a damn, We just want to jam, Party up!”

One of San Francisco’s most sought after DJs and live performers, AN-TEN-NAE, will bring his signature Acid Crunk compilations to The Big Up stage. Also joining the festivities is the highly versatile trio, Orchard Lounge, who has enlightened dance floors from Mexico to Maine with their eclectic mixes, from sunset chill-out to bass-dropping e-funk, and an array of other futuristic sounds. Philly based EDM producer Space Jesus will introduce festivalgoers to his live band where he manipulates Clay Parnell’s (Brothers Past) bass line, layering it over his psychedelic, bass-fueled, Hip Hop-laced tracks, set to the beat of a live drummer.

Featuring a perfect blend of national touring acts and regional up-and-coming talent, the lineup is rounded out by IMANGELES, Elephant Wrecking Ball, Jahman Brahman, Dynamo and Badnutbeats, Izahead, I Yahn I Arkestra, Operation Dankstar, Jammin Toast, Baam Bada, People’s Blues of Richmond and The Untz Challenge Winners, Beat Machine and Lost Optical.

Taking place August 8th – 10th at Hemlock Hallow Farm in Claverack, NY. These artists join Beats Antique, Holy Fuck, GAUDI, Escort, the world premiere of Abakus live band, a DJ set from Chris Keating of Yeasayer, Nerve, The Egg, host band Higher Organix, Dopapod, Brothers Past, DrFameus and more.

Stay tuned for details on large-scale multimedia installations, workshops ranging from music production to hands-on sustainable living, greening initiatives, yoga, farmers market and collaborative art.

“Countdown” weekend tickets that include all performances and three nights of camping are available for $120. VIP upgrades and RV passes are also available at http://thebigup.com/tickets/. Space is limited at this intimate, boutique music festival, so grab your tickets before they sell out! Party Up!

Phase 3 Artist Additions:

AN-TEN-NAE


Orchard Lounge


Kung Fu Prince Tribute set ft. The Motet’s Jans Ingber

Space Jesus Live


IMANGELES


Elephant Wrecking Ball


Jahman Brahman


Dynamo and Badnutbeats


Izahead


I Yahn I Arkestra


Operation Dankstar


Lost Optical


Beat Machine


Baam Bada


People’s Blues of Richmond


Jammin Toast

The Big Up 2013 Artist Line Up:

Beats Antique • Holy Fuck • GAUDI • Escort • Abakus Live (World Premiere) • AN-TEN-NAE • Chris Keating DJ set (Yeasayer) • The Egg • Nerve • Orchard Lounge • Higher Organix (host band) • Dopapod • Kung Fu x2 with special Prince set ft. The Motet’s Jans Ingber• Brothers Past • DrFameus • Normal Instruments • The Indobox • Consider the Source • Timbre Coup • Party Supplies • lespecial • SOUNDUO • Greenhouse Lounge • Space Jesus Live • Cosmic Dust Bunnies • Business Casual Disco • Former Champions • Jeff Bujak • Blacklight Rukus • Ian Stewart • The Edd • MUN • FiKus • Horizon Wireless • Speakerbot • Richard James & The Name Changers • Formula 5 • Lost Optical • Color Channel • ConnetICON • Interlopers • Galaxy Dynamite • Eitch • Laser Sex • Hot Jambalaya • Mister F • Rizzo’s Dilemma • Stokeswood • IMANGELES • Elephant Wrecking Ball • The Blue Goddess • Aqueous • Spundose • Arpetrio • DJ Adam Amrod • Narkatta • ShwizZ • Sojourner • SOLARiS • Jahman Brahman • Dynamo and Badnutbeats • Izahead • I Yahn I Arkestra • Operation Dankstar • Beat Machine • Baam Bada • People’s Blues of Richmond • Jammin Toast

Links:

www.TheBigUp.com  
www.facebook.com/TheBigUp 
 Twitter + Instagram: @BigUpFestival (hashtag #BigUp)

Media Contact:

Brotherly Love Productions | Destiny Spang | 215.704.9554 |Destiny@BrotherlyLoveProductions.com

Taking place August 8th – 10th at Hemlock Hollow Farm in Claverack, NY, these artists join Holy Fuck, Escort, the
world premiere of Abakus live band, a DJ set from Chris Keating of Yeasayer, Nerve, host band Higher Organix,
Dopapod, Brothers Past and more.

Stay tuned for additional artist announcements including a big Saturday late night addition as well as details on
large-scale multimedia installations, contests and games, workshops ranging from music production to hands-on
sustainable living, greening initiatives, yoga, farmers market and collaborative art.

“Countdown” weekend tickets that include all performances and three nights of camping are available for $120. VIP
upgrades and RV passes are also available at http://thebigup.com/tickets/. Space is limited at this intimate, boutique
music festival, so grab your tickets before they sell out. Countdown initiated!

The Big Up 2013 Artist Line Up:
Beats Antique • Holy Fuck • GAUDI • Escort • Abakus Live (World Premiere) • Chris Keating DJ set (Yeasayer) • The
Egg • Nerve • Higher Organix (host band) • Dopapod • Kung Fu x2 • Brothers Past • DrFameus • Normal Instruments
• The Indobox • Consider the Source • Timbre Coup • Party Supplies • lespecial • SOUNDUO • Greenhouse Lounge
• Cosmic Dust Bunnies • Business Casual Disco • Former Champions • Jeff Bujak • Blacklight Rukus • Ian Stewart •
The Edd • FiKus • King Holiday • Horizon Wireless • Speakerbot • Richard James & The Name Changers • Formula
5 • Color Channel • ConnetICON • Interlopers • Galaxy Dynamite • Laser Sex • Hot Jambalaya • Mister F • Rizzo’s
Dilemma • Stokeswood • The Blue Goddess • Aqueous • Spundose • Arpetrio • DJ Adam Amrod • Narkatta • ShwizZ •
Sojourner • SOLARiS

Selecting the defining sounds of summer once again, this year’s Phase One acts include Holy Fuck, Escort, the world premiere of Abakus live band, a DJ set from Chris Keating of Yeasayer, Jojo Mayer & Nerve, host band Higher Organix, Kung Fu, Dopapod, Brothers Past, Normal Instruments and Party Supplies. Additional artists and major headliners to be announced soon!

We are excited to announce our new home, the awesome Hemlock Hollow Farm in Claverack, NY. The Woods Stage and Woods Village will make their triumphant return bigger and better than before! Hemlock Hollow has tons of woods camping (three times as much as years past!), and there’s plenty of car camping space also available.

Located less than 10 minutes from our previous coordinates, Hemlock Hollow is right off the Taconic Pkwy and is only 2 hours from NYC and 2.5 from Boston.

Stay tuned to this wavelength for major headliner and artist updates, as well as details on large-scale multimedia installations, contests and games, workshops ranging from music production to hands-on sustainable living, greening initiatives, yoga, farmers market and collaborative art.

“Far Out” weekend tickets will be available tomorrow (Wednesday, March 6th) in limited quantities for $95. Pick up “Far Out” tier 1 tickets and save $25 off the “Countdown” advance weekend price. These will sell out quickly so don’t sleep on this killer bargain! Ticket includes camping and all performances. VIP upgrades and RV passes are also available at this time. For tickets please visit our ticketing page. Space is limited at this intimate, boutique music festival so grab your tickets before they sell out. Landing sequence initiated!

The Big Up 2013 Initial Artist Line Up:

• Holy Fuck
• Escort
• Abakus live band – World Premiere
• Chris Keating DJ set (Yeasayer)
• Jojo Mayer & Nerve
• Higher Organix
• Kung Fu
• Dopapod
• Brothers Past
• Normal Instruments
• Party Supplies

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Greetings Big Uppers!

Today is a special day for all of us, because today we have officially scheduled a date for our return to Earth!

We are happy to announce that the Big Up will touch down for the three days of August 8.9.10, 2013.  You better free up some space on your mental hard drive, because you’re gonna jam pack it with summer 2013′s best memories.

The coordinates for a perfect landing zone are yet to be released, but we know it will be somewhere in the beautiful Hudson Valley region of NY. As soon as the full details are available, they will go to you.

In the meantime, please visit thebigup.com for news, media, and contact portals to the mothership.

Stay tuned to this frequency for the most up to date transmissions.

Wishing you a very excited BIG UPS!!

After last year’s The Big Up, I slept for about sixteen hours straight.  I was sleep deprived, my body hurt, and I couldn’t imagine being anywhere other than a bed after spending three nights in a tent.  Normally, I’d get flack from my family for being so “lazy,” but after what was surely one of the most exhausting weekends of the summer, even they agreed that I looked like I needed the rest, after a serious shower of course.  Was I having problems walking after being on my feet for 18 hours a day? Sure. Was I having problems forming sentences out of sheer exhaustion and over-using my mouth to chat it up with everyone I came in contact with? Absolutely.  Was it worth every penny and every bit of energy I had used up over the course of that hot and sticky weekend in upstate New York at the end of July? You bet your ass it was.

When I heard that The Big Up was taking a hiatus for unknown reasons this past summer, I died a little bit on the inside.  Festival season is of course everyone’s favorite time of year, for several reasons.  There’s the crazy party atmosphere, the killer music, and of course seeing friends and family that you wouldn’t have a chance to normally see during the rest of the year.  The last part is what really got to me.  As a die-hard Disco Biscuits fan, festivals like Camp Bisco allow me to catch up with a nice handful of friends old and new that I don’t see otherwise, but at a staggering 20,000 people, it’s easy to get lost in the mix.  The Big Up, on the other hand, at a comfortable 3,000 people, is the exact opposite of a larger festival and feels half the size that it actually is.  Besides the fact that you won’t walk for longer than ten minutes to get anywhere (or fifteen if you’re a slow and easily distractible guy like myself), there is no escaping the phamily, and it’s truly an amazing thing.  You find out that one group of friends knows your other group of friends, who in turn both know a third group, and before you know it you’ve pieced together a more insane and intricate family tree that you would have ever thought possible.  I have one distinct memory of walking by the late night barn one evening with my girlfriend and two or three friends.  We made it about six feet before we passed some people we knew and doubled in size, and did it again, and again.  After walking outside from one end of the barn to the other, a total of maybe 150 feet, there were about 30 of us. We all knew each other, and we were remarkably still missing half of our crews.  That short minute will always stick in my memory because it embodies the spirit and feel of what this festival is really all about.

So you can imagine that I almost cried for joy when earlier this week, Shireworks announced that it’s baby would be back for summer 2013! After posting a sweet new website and an awesomely epic “we’re back” video (which can be seen below), I’m still in disbelief.  They had said they would be back, but after the disappointment of last summer, I wasn’t going to get my hopes up.  Now, I have nothing but hope.  There’s no line-up or details yet, but I don’t even care.  After producing some of the best sets of last summer, including late nights by Tipper and Papadosio and rare and rockin’ sets from bands like RAQ and The Breakfast, I have no doubt they’ll deliver yet again.  Interestingly enough, though, for a music festival that has brought some serious heat to their line-up, the music isn’t even close to the first thing on my mind.  I don’t know about you, but I think that’s a beautiful thing.

Be sure to keep yourself updated with announcements from this awesome festival by checking out their Facebook page or the Big Up website.

By Jeff Kurtz @ http://sensiblereason.com/the-big-up-is-back/