A new music festival is coming to the Portland, Maine waterfront from GoodWorks and Shore Sound Entertainment called Back Cove Music & Arts Festival. It goes down on August 2 & 3 in Payson Park, headlined by Jack White and Lord Huron, and it also features OutKast member turned jazz flute enthusiast André 3000, Turnpike Troubadours, Lucy Dacus, Margo Price, Sarah Kinsley, Weakened Friends, Madi Diaz, Eliza McLamb, and more.
A pre-sale for locals is underway now, and the general public on-sale begins Thursday, March 6 at noon EST.
The announcement reads:
Aside from taking in epic sets from world renowned performing artists, Back Cove Music & Arts Festival attendees will find themselves immersed within the sights and culture of Portland, ME. A community where a thriving arts scene comes hand in hand with the working port city’s bustling fish markets. Walkable seaside neighborhoods, centuries old colonial buildings, cobblestone streets, and blissfully temperate weather await, making for the perfect New England escape from the oppressive late summer heat found at destinations further south along the eastern coast.
Back Cove Music & Arts Festival will also showcase the best of Portland’s incredible culinary and brewery scene. Among so many other accolades, the city has previously taken home honors as Bon Appetit’s “Restaurant City Of The Year”, winning plaudits for a profound variety of styles, flavors, and ethnic cuisines that run miles deeper than the sure to be best lobster roll you will ever have in your life. It also counts itself as an original epicenter of the modern US craft brewery movement, being home to the first contemporary microbrewery established east of the Mississippi. Today Portland, ME boasts the most breweries per capita of any city in the US, fully earning the nickname “beervana” among beer enthusiasts. Back Cove Music & Arts Festival will feature vendors that bring attendees a taste (or two or three) of the delicious plates and refreshing libations that make Portland such a wonderful place to live and also visit.
More info here. Full lineup below.
Saturday, August 2nd: Lord Huron, André 3000, Thee Sacred Souls, St. Paul & The Broken Bones, Griffin William Sherry, Cimafunk, Sarah Kinsley, Crowe Boys, Weakened Friends, Picintu Multinational Chorus, Maine Academy of Modern Music
Sunday, August 3rd: Jack White, Turnpike Troubadours, Lucy Dacus, Margo Price, Ripe, Chance Peña, Madi Diaz, The Greeting Committee, Eliza McLamb, Oshima Brothers, Maine Academy of Modern Music