A brand new chapter of Summer time Camp Music Pageant is afoot, based on Ian Goldberg, the occasion’s founder and producer.
Goldberg at the moment launched a press release asserting an impending hiatus for the competition, which takes place every Memorial Day Weekend in Chillicothe, Illinois. Summer time Camp Music Pageant “as we have all come to comprehend it” will discontinue, he says, following this 12 months’s gathering. Followers can nonetheless look ahead to a “redefined” tenting and music expertise at Three Sisters Park beginning in 2024.
Goldberg cited logistical challenges and competitors from large-scale company occasion producers as causes behind the choice.
“The challenges of throwing a mid measurement unbiased music competition within the face of the massive company festivals as competitors each for followers and for artists, together with the logistical challenges (particularly put up pandemic) of throwing an occasion of this measurement in a small market in Central Illinois have had us reevaluating what we do for awhile now,” Goldberg defined. “However reimagining Summer time Camp had its personal challenges, we couldn’t determine methods to reduce the occasion in a method that might really feel true to all the pieces Summer time Camp Music Pageant has come to be.”
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Goldberg says this 12 months’s Summer time Camp, which kicks off Might twenty sixth, is “going to be insanely significant” for attendees, who’ve shaped a tight-knit neighborhood because the competition’s inception in 2001. The occasion will function performances by Excision, Rusko, Inexperienced Velvet and lots of extra.
“Slicing items of it felt like leaving our kids behind,” Goldberg continued. “So we determined it was time to place the Summer time Camp Music Pageant to relaxation. For now. We might be asserting extra particulars on the brand new occasion after this 12 months’s competition, however it should doubtless embrace sure components that long-time SCampers will discover very acquainted.”
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