Pleasantville Music Festival announces a Full Day of Awesome

Pleasantville Music Festival announces a Full Day of Awesome: The Pleasantville Music Festival recently announced it’s full lineup of 18 bands, 9 hours and 3 stages of music coming to Pleasantville’s Parkway Field on July 13. Hailed as New York’s Backyard Jam, PMF is Westchester County’s premiere (and only) rock fest and regularly books up and comers and top contemporary and legacy acts.

Everclear, Soul Asylum & Aimee Mann

The festival’s Main Stage headliners are the late 90’s alt-rock hit-makers, Everclear, whose huge hits included ‘Santa Monica’, ‘Wonderful Now’, ‘Father of Mine’ and ‘I Will Buy You a New Life” propelled them to three consecutive Platinum albums including Sparkle and Fade, So Much for the Afterglow and Songs from an American Movie Vol. 1: Learning How To Smile. Other notable Main Stage acts include Soul Asylum, best known for their Grammy-winning hit “Runaway Train” from their triple-platinum 1992 album Grave Dancer’s Union. And Aimee Mann, (great show at Caramoor last year) who received Grammy and Academy Award nominations for her song “Save Me” recorded for the 2001 feature film, Magnolia, Named one of the world’s ten greatest living songwriters by NPR in 2006, Mann is a two-time Grammy-winner. Her 2018 album Mental Illness won the Grammy for Best Folk Album.

Dean Friedman & Matthew Sweet

The Party Line Chill Tent stage showcases another half-dozen acts including Dean Friedman best known for his chart-topping 1977 hit “Ariel”. (Give it a listen – you know it and love it!) The Chill Tent’s headliner is power popper, Matthew Sweet whose 1991 hit “I’ve Been Waiting” powered his platinum-selling album Girlfriend. In 2006, Sweet collaborated with Bangles singer/guitarist Susanna Hoffs on Under the Covers Vol 1 that featured notable covers of Neil Young’s “Cinnamon Girl” and “Everybody Knows this is Nowhere”.

There’s plenty of awesome at the Party Stage too. Glam-pop-rocker Micky James will be performing his current Spotify hit, “Give It To Me Straight” And the Party Stage headliners. The New Respects, featuring twins Zandy and Lexi Fitzgerald, brother Darius and cousin Jasmine Mullen will get you dancing and thinking about The Jackson Five.

Bring your lawn chairs, blankets and tents. There’s plenty of food and drink, a beer & wine garden for the adults, fun activities to keep the kids happy, and a zero-waste program to keep the Earth happy. Plus stuff to buy, charities to learn about, and a “warm, positive backyard vibe.”

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