Dogs In A Pile will host their first-ever curated festival this summer with the launch of Burning Daylight Music Festival. The three-day music and camping festival May 23rd–25th at Wonderland Forest in LaFayette, NY will see the New Jersey jam upstarts perform three nights in addition to a wide-ranging support lineup.
Burning Daylight will stage additional performances from indie-jam supergroup Taper’s Choice, hybrid tribute Pink Talking Fish, psychedelic harpist Mikaela Davis, stylistic chameleon Kendall Street Company, Chicago party funk septet Sneezy, Americana indie-rock outfit Annie In The Water, and keyboard/vocalist/bandleader Natalie Brooke. Viral jam band comedian Cam Herdt (aka @mistercam) will serve as the weekend’s MC.
Tickets for the inaugural Dogs In A Pile Burning Daylight Music Festival are on sale here. Weekend passes start at $115 with a $99 camping pass sold separately, as well as car camping, RV camping, glamping, early arrival, and late departure options.
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Dogs In A Pile marks the latest band to launch a curated festival at the 450-acre Wonderland Forest, following The Disco Biscuits’ Biscoland, Twiddle’s Tumbledown, Papadosio’s Summer Sequence, the Summer Jam 50th anniversary celebration with Dark Star Orchestra, Daniel Donato’s Cosmic Country, and The Weight Band, and more. What started as a campsite for socially distant pod concerts during the pandemic has since grown into a bold new experiment in music festival production. In a world of corporate-owned megafests and exorbitant ticket prices, Wonderland Forest founder Dan Mastronardi has flipped the script by establishing a plug-and-play campsite/concert venue for bands looking to host intimate curated festivals and fans looking to return to the simplistic roots of summer music festivals.
“It’s like to me, when I was a kid, I would go camping and I’d go to concerts, but not like this,” Mastronardi told Live For Live Music in an interview last year. “When you’re combining both of them in the same place, it makes for something special, which is more than just the music. With Wonderland, we want to give [attendees] that experience, that adventure, that not just, ‘Okay, cool, we’re going to a concert in a parking lot.’”
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