Jersey Shore Magazine

J e r s e y s h o r e • S P R I N G 2 0 2 0 10 BEACHCOMBER TWO GREAT FESTIVALS, continued from page 9 Blind Melon performing at the Sea.Hear.Now Festival in 2019. T he laid-back Jersey Shore life- style and culture is derived from infinite waves, distinctive art, and coastal cuisine against the backdrop of soulful music and the dream of an endless summer. There's no bet- ter way to celebrate all things Jersey Shore than the Sea.Hear.Now Festival scheduled for September 19 and 20, 2020 in Asbury Park. Back for its third year, the Sea.Hear.Now Festival is more than just a concert. Unlike other festi- vals, Sea.Hear.Now offers two days filled with over twenty-five musi- cal performances on three separate stages along with surf sessions and demonstrations featuring some of the area's top-rated surfers and surf- board shapers, cuisine from local and regional restaurants including vegan/ vegetarian/gluten-free options, and immersive art and yoga experiences. Jersey Shore natives and friends, acclaimed photographer/filmmaker Danny Clinch from Toms River and The 2020 Sea.Hear.Now Festival A One-of-a-Kind Celebration of Music, Surf, and Art Saturday, September 19 - Sunday, September 20, 2020 Asbury Park music journalist Tim Donnelly, co-founded Sea.Hear.Now with the help of H.M. Wollman and the promotions company C3 Presents (Lollapalooza, Austin City Limits Music Festival) as a way to unite and celebrate the partnership of music, surfing, and art in a way that could only happen at the Jersey Shore. With Asbury Park's rich music and art his- tory, combined with its location along the sea, Clinch and Donnelly knew it was the perfect location for their vision. Six years of planning resulted in that vision becoming a reality in 2018 as the first Sea.Hear.Now Festival seamlessly captured the essence and vibe of the Jersey Shore. Sea.Hear.Now's success is evident in the dramatic increase in attend- ees since its inception. Over 20,000 people attended the festival in 2018, when musicians Jack Johnson, Incubus, Social Distortion, Blondie, and Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals topped the bill along with a host of other music performances on three stages (the Surf and Sand Stages on the North Beach along the Atlantic Ocean and the Park Stage in Bradley Park). In 2019, the festival sold out with a crowd of over 35,000 Jersey Shore locals and visitors who were treated to legendary performances by Dave Matthews Band, The Lumineers, Dropkick Murphys, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, Blind Melon, and The B-52s, among others. Many musicians returned to their Jersey roots in 2019, including Little Egg Harbor native and Stranger Things actor Gaten Matarazzo who per- formed with his band, Work in Progress, alongside Pearl Jam's Mike McCready; The Wrecks' lead guitar- ist Nick Schmidt, who hails from Manchester; Garden State natives Wesley Schultz and Jeremiah Fraites of The Lumineers; and Joan Jett and T H E S U M M E R S E N D O F F Michael Kravetsky for Sea.Hear.Now 2019 Adam Tormollan for Sea.Hear.Now 2019 Andrew Gesler surfs at Sea.Hear.Now 2019. Some of the most prominent surfers from New Jersey and the world participate in Surfer Expression Sessions.

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