There are lots of festivals to look forward to in Central Illinois and the Midwest this fall. We told you about Pygmalion Music Festival happening in Champaign at the end of September, and today we are bringing you news of a hardcore festival taking place in St. Louis, Missouri. Of course there are many many festivals that happen every year in St. Louis and Chicago (too many for us to cover)! Some of you might be heading to Riot Fest in Chicago later this month.

The festival we are telling you about today is Gateway To The West Fest, which is happening October 18th and 19th (Friday and Saturday) at the Mad Magician in St. Louis. The festival features two days packed with plenty of hardcore punk bands from across the  country. Some notable acts include Bracewar, Ramallah, Bent Life, Black Teeth (reunion), Rival Mob, as well as many others. For the full lineup you can head over to the Gateway To The West facebook event. For ticket info and pre-orders, you can head over to Springfield-related record label Dog Years Records’s website. Weekend passes are going for $45.00, get them before they sell out! You can also check out that cool looking flier designed by Springfield’s own Benny Dewitt of Mother Leopard above. You can even check out a trailer for the festival embedded below.

Here at blacksheepspringfield.com we try to keep you all in the loop on music festivals that are happening in nearby towns. Last year we made a post about Pygmalion Music Festival happening in Champaign, and guess what? It’s happening again! Pygmalion Music Festival is happening this year from September 26th through the 28th in Urbana/Champaign, Illinois. This will be the ninth year of the annual music festival and it features many bands from all over the globe.

Some notable acts playing Pygmalion this year include Major Lazer, The Breeders, The Head & The Heart, Dawes, Kurt Vile and the Violators, Warpaint, Daughter, Foxygen, Youth Lagoon, Kishi Bashi, Dessa, Bleached, and many many more. For the complete lineup of bands as well as ticket and venue information, you can head over to the Pygmalion site right here.

Earlier in May we told you about a new music festival happening in Champaign/Urbana this summer that would in ways replace another large Central Illinois music festival of the past called Cornerstone. The festival is in fact happening this weekend on Friday and Saturday July 5th and 6th at the Champaign County Fairgrounds. For ticket info, as well as a full lineup of bands and much more you can check out the AudioFeed website. There will be multiple stages at the festival, including one “Black Sheep stage” ran by Springfield’s very own Kevin Bradford. Bands playing this stage include Maylene & The Sons of Disaster, The Scurvies, The Skies Revolt, and many more. The festival is being put together by those who were involved with putting together Cornerstone Music Festival in previous summers. Here is a list of other things going on from the website:

We will have music.  Good music.  Maybe some big names yet to come, maybe all the kinds of bands that made Cornerstone great – the underground and unknowns that are, frankly too creative, too intensely passionate to receive broad market appeal,

Camping – RV and tent sites.

Speakers – you’ll know that we are doing what we’re doing because we are passionate about following the example and teaching of Jesus.

Community.  We were created for community. The combination of everything above, experienced with friends old and new.  That feeling… if you’re one of “us”, I don’t need to explain it.  If you’re not, we welcome you to experience it with us.

It looks like the annual SOHO Music Festival happening in downtown Springfield have released their lineup for this years fest happening on Friday, June 7 and Saturday, June 8th. You can see the full lineup with the set times on the picture above and we also have it listed below. One notable act includes Park on Saturday night, who just recently announced their reunion on Black Sheep Radio last week.

Friday, June 7th
4:30 Square of the Roots
5:30 Grocery Store Ninjas
6:00 Enamel
7:00 Joe Frew
7:30 Blue G’s
8:30 Owen and Dooley
9:00 Tom Irwin
10:00 Texas Trucker Speed Friends
10:30 The Station

Saturday, June 8th
1:00 Blake Stevens
1:30 Pattern Grey
2:30 Kamikazee Kush
3:00 Mojo Cats
4:00 Pete Sander & Chris Maxey
5:30 The Complaint Line
6:00 Hey Brother
7:00 Pet Names
7:30 Lowder
8:30 Dog Of Panic
9:00 Hot Bag O’ Donuts
10:00 Park
10:30 Dan Hubbard & The Humadores

For more info on shows and festivals happening around Springfield outside of Black Sheep, you can check out our Springfield shows page.

Here at blacksheepspringfield.com, we always have some music festival going on somewhere outside of (or in) Springfield to tell you about. Today we bring you news of a new festival called “Audiofeed Music Festival” happening in Urbana this summer on July 5th and 6th. This festival may be taking place miles away in Urbana, but there is a “Black Sheep Stage” being ran by Kevin Bradford of Black Sheep himself! Bands playing this stage include Maylene & The Sons of Disaster, The Scurvies, The Skies Revolt, and many more. The festival is being put together by those who were involved with putting together Cornerstone Music Festival in previous summers.

For the complete lineup of bands playing, you can go here. Audiofeed Fest also has a website which you can check out here. Here is a list of other things going on from the website:

We will have music.  Good music.  Maybe some big names yet to come, maybe all the kinds of bands that made Cornerstone great – the underground and unknowns that are, frankly too creative, too intensely passionate to receive broad market appeal,

Camping – RV and tent sites.

Speakers – you’ll know that we are doing what we’re doing because we are passionate about following the example and teaching of Jesus.

Community.  We were created for community. The combination of everything above, experienced with friends old and new.  That feeling… if you’re one of “us”, I don’t need to explain it.  If you’re not, we welcome you to experience it with us.

Wow look at that! It’s a poster for The Horse Show put on by The Radon Lounge! The Horse Show is a festival taking place at The Refuge Range (not at Radon) on June 15th (yes, we know that it is the same day as Dumb Fest). The Horse Show will be a full day’s worth of music and events- starting at 10:00 am and going to 10:00 pm. Headlining the festival will be Timbre, which is a Nashville-based harpist and song writer. Are you ready for the long list of other bands and solo projects playing? Here we go…

Timbre
We Are Warm
Hushpad
Von Strantz
The Transatlantic
Lauryn Peacock
With You In Mind
Worship Set (local worship minister coalition)
Seth Moorman
Insomniac Folklore
Kevin Schlereth
Brilliant Move

Whew! June 15th will be a huge day for music in Springfield. With this and Dumb Fest, you have no excuse to stay at home that day. You can find a facebook event for The Horse Show right here. And don’t forget to check our Springfield shows page for more listings of shows going on outside of Black Sheep.