INTERVIEW: Laura and Veronica of Camp Punksylvania on Organizing and Booking a Music Festival


We chatted recently with Laura and Veronica of Riot Squad Media, two of the three founders and bookers of the 3rd annual Camp Punksylvania, the awesome Punk festival taking place in Scranton, Pennsylvania over Labor Day weekend. The lineup includes The Suicide Machines, A Wilhelm Scream, Tsunami Bomb, Bad Cop Bad Cop, War On Women, The Dollyrots, The Bar Stool Preachers, Belvedere, Mikey Erg, and many more!! We learned a lot about the team and this festival in this informative convo!

 

To buy tickets and for more information:

https://www.camppunksylvania.com/

 

The confirmed artists to appear at Camp Punksylvania each day include:

 

Friday, September 1, 2023

Tsunami Bomb (California)

The Dollyrots (California)

Mikey Erg (New Jersey)

Lenny Lashley’s Gang of One (Massachusetts)

The Squalors (Pennsylvania)

Teen Mortgage (Maryland)

Dead Rest (Illinois)

Oh the Humanity (Massachusetts)

Coffee With Lions (Pennsylvania)

Tail Light Rebellion (Wisconsin)

Black Guy Fawkes & the Co-Conspirators (Maryland)

 

Saturday, September 2, 2023

The Suicide Machines (Michigan)

Bad Cop Bad Cop (California)

Escape From the Zoo (Texas)

The Bar Stool Preachers (England)

The Potato Pirates (Colorado)

Belvedere (Canada)

The Homeless Gospel Choir (Pennsylvania)

Fat Chance (Pennsylvania)

Working Class Stiffs (New York)

The What Nows?! (Pennsylvania)

Stop the Presses (New York)

Pity Party (California)

ÅSMR (Ohio)

Suburban Downgrade (Pennsylvania)

Cardboard Homestead (New York)

Condition Oakland (Pennsylvania)

Brandon Richie (Pennsylvania)

Amy Gabba (Toronto)

Vulture Raid (Pennsylvania)

The Karens (Pennsylvania)

The Chemical Imbalance (New Jersey)

No Complyance (New York)

 

Sunday, September 3, 2023

A Wilhelm Scream (Massachusetts)

War On Women (Maryland)

River City Rebels (Vermont)

The Bar Stool Preachers, unplugged (England)

Jon Snodgrass (Colorado)

Dissidente (Pennsylvania)

Froggy (Pennsylvania)

Fat Heaven (New York City)

The Car Bomb Parade (New York City)

Dead 77 (California)

Doc Rotten (New Jersey)

Avenues (Illinois)

Freeze MF (Pennsylvania)

The Mostly Dead (Maryland)

Sweet Anne Marie (Pennsylvania)

The Wasted (Pennsylvania)

 

 

   

 

Interview by Keefy

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Produced & edited by Ojaay

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Theme music by Salted Wounds 

https://www.instagram.com/saltedwoundsnyc

 

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