Dear Friends and family of The Big Up and Shireworks Productions: It is with much disappointment that we must announce that The Big Up will be taking an unexpected hiatus this year. However, in the face of this disappointment, we maintain the position that sacrifices must be made in order to keep an eye on the bigger picture. As a festival, we couldn’t have been happier with TBU 2011, and we have you, the fans and the family to thank [...]
The Big Up Music & Arts Festival
Now that the dust has settled, festival organizers Shireworks Productions look back on their event: The Big Up Music & Arts festival held on July 28, 29 and 30, 2011 at Sunnyview Farm in Ghent, New York. The event which attracted some 5,000 festival-goers from all over the country, featured a revolutionary mix of live entertainment, arts and activities that culminated during a three-day period closing out the month of July. Over 70 musical acts from all over the world [...]
Greetings, folks! The day is almost here as to when we open the gates and meet you all with happy shiney faces! Gates open at noon on July 28th! Here are some details to help you along the way: If you haven’t got your ticket yet, don’t panic. There are still tickets available at the gate. At gate tickets will be available for $120.00. Other important considerations about ticketing: Buy tickets inside our fully staffed ticketing field only. We [...]
Hey Big Uppers!!! The Schedule has arrived, and now you can start getting your weekend planned out down to the minute!! For full schedule click here: http://www.thebigup.com/2011-music-schedule Unfortunately, our friends The Malah will not be able to perform at TBU for reasons beyond our control. We are saddened that they won’t be bringing their musical stylings to TBU, but we are very excited to fill their slot with brooklyn-based producer, and Pretty Lights Music recording artist, Gramatik, (www.gramatik.net) We don’t stop [...]
7/6 is the last night to order tickets through regular mail. 7/13 is the last date to order through secure/insured priority mail of tickets. After 7/13 tickets will be available at will call. Will call until Sunday, 7/24/2011. We anticipate plenty of tickets at the gate. Saturday day pass available at the gate for $65 are subject to availability. Get tickets at www.thebigup.com/tickets
The Big Up is pleased to announce that it is partnering with the Healing Winds Community to offer their White Eagle Sanctuary Tipi Village. The Big Up Festival grounds will play host to a Native American village large enough to accommodate 2 tipis (each holding 25 people), wigwams and a longhouse wigwam. In addition, Healing Winds will be bringing several healers of various skill, massage therapists, sustainability educators and wellness facilitators to provide workshops, demonstrations, pow wows, drumming and other [...]
As promised, we have a couple exciting, “extra-curricular” announcements to let everyone get a better idea of what is in-store for The Big Up 2011!!! Firstly, NEW SWAG! We are very excited to announce two awesome collaborations in the name of fresh Big Up gear! (GRC) OFFICIAL “BIG UP” CUSTOM FITTED HAT Shireworks Productions and Grassroots California (GRC), http://grassrootscalifornia.com/, will be pairing up to bring you a custom Big Up hat! You’ve seen GRC hats at premier events, and [...]
The Big Up Music and Arts festival is excited to announce our 3rd and final round of artists additions. We will be announcing tons of exciting activities, workshops, contests and much more in the coming weeks so stay tuned. Tickets can still be purchased for only $90 @ thebigup.com/tickets. See you in July! Who’s been added: ZOOGMA THE WERKS CONSIDER THE SOURCE COSMIC DUST BUNNIES MOSES & THE ELECTRIC COMPANY NORMAL INSTRUMENTS OTIS GROVE INSIGNIYA LESPECIAL SPLITPHASE WOBBLESAUCE [...]
The Big Up Music & Arts Festival just announced the addition of Tipper, RAQ, Dopapod, ElectronicAnonymous, Dr. Jah & the Love Prophets, Funktion, D.V.S*, Perileyes, Technicolor Lenses, Steady Knock and Pulse Prophets to this year’s already killer lineup. They join EOTO (featuring Michael Travis and Jason Hann of the String Cheese Incident), Big Gigantic, Digital Tape Machine (featuring Joel Cummins and Kris Myers of Umphrey’s McGee), Marco Benevento Trio along with Ott, Abakus, Papadosio, Orchard Lounge, The Breakfast, The Polish [...]
Early Bird Tickets are now sold out! Normal advance rate tickets are now available for $90.00 (CLICK HERE TO GET TICKETS) DON’T MISS OUT ON THE VIP UPGRADE VALUE! We had a lot of positive feedback last year about our VIP tickets and for this year we have added even more value to becoming a VIPer. For your VIP upgrade you get: VIP designated camping options (select woods or near stage) 1/2 price beer Premium parking RV Camping Included [...]
The Big Up launches a new look and feel for its website that we hope everyone will find easy to use. There is information for just about everything you will need for coming to The Big Up. Hang out for a while and take part in discussions happening in our forums. Need a ride to The Big Up Festival? Check out the Ride Share forum. Would you like to brainstorm, collaborate and participate in the art at The Big Up? [...]
The Big Up Festival announces its first round lineup with EOTO, Big Gigantic, Marco Benevento Trio and Digital Tape Machine (featuring Joel Cummins and Kris Meyers of Umphrey’s McGee) topping the first round lineup of over 50-plus hours of live music throughout three days. The year 2011 promises to be the festival’s biggest and best year yet. In addition to the first round of headliners, The Big Up Festival 2011 will also highlight performances by Ott, Orchard Lounge, Abakus, Papadosio, [...]
The Big Up Festival has announced 2011 summer festival dates as July 28, 29 and 30. The three-day festival held at beautiful Sunnyview Farm in Ghent, New York, features 50-plus hours of music on five stages, arts and culture and multimedia experiences. The Big Up 2011 promises to be bigger and better than last year with a diverse selection of musical entertainment to include the hottest acts from the electronic and jamband scenes. New for this year is an expanded [...]