Sea.Hear.Now Festival

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Sea.Hear.Now Festival
StatusActive
GenreMusic festival
FrequencyAnnually
Location(s)1300 Ocean Avenue, Asbury Park, New Jersey, United States
Years active2018–present
InauguratedSeptember 29, 2018 (2018-09-29)
Websiteseahearnowfestival.com
Paramount Theatre at Asbury Park Convention Hall at nightfall with the Atlantic Ocean behind it.
Asbury Park South, a 1920 painting by Jazz Age artist Florine Stettheimer depicts the beach and boardwalk at Asbury Park where the festival is now held.[1]
Asbury Park beach

The Sea.Hear.Now Festival (aka Sea Hear Now) is an annual music, art and ocean sustainability festival featuring a professional surfing competition held in Asbury Park, New Jersey.[2] Held on the beach and boardwalk in September, it is produced by, among others, rock photographer Danny Clinch, Tim Donnelly, HM Wollman, and C3 Presents’ Tim Sweetwood.[3]

Digital pop culture magazine The Pop Break named Sea.Hear.Now the best new music festival of the year in 2018.[4][5] Billed as a celebration of live music, art, and surf culture, a portion of proceeds go to ocean-focused and environmental charities such as the Surfrider Foundation and Save the Bay.[3]

History[]

2018[]

Blondie in 1977
Ben Harper

The inaugural festival was held in September 2018.[6]

Debbie Harry wore a cape during her performance with Blondie with the message, “Stop Fucking the Planet.”[7] The sustainability efforts at the 2018 festival featured reusable bottle water refilling stations, a “rock and recycle” program to help clean up waste/trash, and an opportunity to join the New Jersey chapter of the Surfrider Foundation.[8]

Pro surfers Quincy Davis, Sam Hammer, Balaram Stack, Pat Schmidt, and Mike Gleason competed at the festival's surf exhibition.[9]

The 2018 lineup included:[10]

2019[]

The Asbury Park boardwalk

The 2019 festival was held in September 2019.[3]

The lineup included:[11][12]

2020[]

The 2020 festival was postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[13]

2021[]

Cory Henry

The 2021 festival featured, among others:

Professional surfers included:

Art exhibition[]

Patti Smith, Eddie Vedder, Mike McCready and Jeff Ament of Pearl Jam, and others exhibited artwork inside the Transparent Gallery pop-up at the festival. Musicians and artists showing their artwork also included Scott Avett of the Avett Brothers, Billy Morrison of Billy Idol, Trevor Terndrup of Moon Taxi, Tim Showalter of , Liz Cooper, Briston Maroney, , James Black and James Herdman of Jackson Pines, Danny Clinch, muralist Porkchop and others.

References[]

  1. ^ This 1920 painting depicts a summer crowd at the south end of Asbury Park, including a sign for a July 4, 1920, Asbury Park performance by the Italian operatic tenor Enrico Caruso. The artist is under a green parasol, several of her friends are also recognizable. Artist Marcel Duchamp (pink suit) walks with the actress Fania Marinoff. Carl Van Vechten stands on the elevated structure left (black suit), Avery Hopwood (white suit, right side) talks with a woman in a yellow dress, the Swiss painter Paul Thévanaz (red bathing suit) bends over a camera. Henry, McBride, Florine Stettheimer, The Museum of Modern Art 1946.
  2. ^ Mital, Sachyn. "Sea.Hear.Now Wildly Successful in Second Year, PopMatters".
  3. ^ a b c Cohen, Jonathan (June 3, 2021). "Rock Photographer Danny Clinch Talks Sea.Hear.Now Fest, Featuring Pearl Jam's First U.S. Show in Three Years".
  4. ^ "Why Sea.Hear.Now 2018 Was The Best New Music Festival of the Year", The Pop Break, October 22, 2018. Accessed March 17, 2020.
  5. ^ Oglesby, Amanda. "Asbury Park's Sea.Hear.Now festival a major success", Asbury Park Press', September 30, 2018. Accessed March 17, 2020.
  6. ^ https://imposemagazine.com/bytes/new-music/the-inaugural-sea-hear-now-festival-rocked-asbury-park
  7. ^ "2018 Sea.Hear.Now Festival Recap". October 16, 2018.
  8. ^ "Blondie Commands The Stage With A Late Afternoon Set At Sea.Hear.Now".
  9. ^ "Paddle Out to Asbury Park, NJ for Sea.Hear.Now » Whalebone". Whalebone. September 19, 2019.
  10. ^ "Bruce Springsteen Joins Social Distortion, Jack Johnson Welcomes Several Guests At Asbury's Sea.Hear.Now [Videos]". L4LM. October 1, 2018.
  11. ^ Lustig, Jay (August 9, 2019). "Sea.Hear.Now festival announces 2019 schedule". NJArts.net.
  12. ^ "Second Annual Sea.Hear.Now Festival Exemplifies Asbury Park's Flourishing Music Scene [Photos]". 24 September 2019.
  13. ^ "Sea.Hear.Now Festival on Asbury Park beach postponed until 2021".

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