2014 Rock the Arts Park Festival in New Castle, IN is a Music Festival and Street fair that brings people together to raise money to help our local community move forward and increase the quality of life for everyone. 2013 our 40 bands/artist performing had a total of 250k fans on social media. 2014 we are looking to take it all to the next level including the new format for our main stage area. We have dual stages that are non –stop concerts for 2 days.
Our street fair is 7 street sections of vendor and food booths, concert, food trucks, entertainment and more. The last 2 years we have had the Indiana Blood Mobile and the Indiana Pacers Fan Van. 2013 we were a stop on the Dr.Pepper Ten National Tour. The concerts are a mix genre bag of some of the best bands, a lot are doing a lot of big things. So far for 2014 we have 3 Nashville Recording Artist, including one who will be on America’s Got Talent this summer. Meadow Ryann has won 11 awards in the last few months. Northern Lights has for their front man Olympic Diver Thomas Finchum part of the 2008 Olympics.
Regional Artist Shannon McKeon will be doing to demo’s painting one acoustic guitar each day for crowds. First one will be a festival themed one and the second will be a New Castle themed one. The guitars will be donated to New Castle Community in Action to be auctioned for our cause. Other performers that are booked so far are Don’t Call It a Comeback, Heather Michele and Company, Stampede String Band, Infamous, Shenita Golder, and Losing September. Announcements will be as more bands are added on Facebook at www.Facebook.com/RockTheArtsPark and on Twitter at www.Twitter.com/RockTheArtPark and we will have artist pages with music, pictures, videos and more for all of our bands on our website at www.RockTheArtsPark.com There are a lot in the works that have not been confirmed yet but will soon be and announced so make sure you like and follow us to keep up to date. Tickets are $6 a person per day. Saturday Main Stages will have 15 bands/artist and Sunday will have 14. The street fair and entertainment does not cost anything.
