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RPM Fest 2016 Info

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RPM Fest 2016 is a three-day outdoor music festival featuring 35 of the best rock, punk, and metal bands from all over New England. It is happening on August 26th - 28th in Greenfield, Massachusetts and is our third annual festival.

RPM Fest is the culmination of an underground heavy music scene that has been brewing over the past decade. A joint venture between Promotorhead Entertainment and PDP Productions, our goal is to produce a free outdoor music festival with two stages featuring the best rock, punk, and metal bands we can book. We have a mutual love of heavy music, 25+ years of combined experience in concert booking, promoting, and live sound, and the desire to put on a high-quality event while keeping costs to a minimum.

The festival will be taking place in Western Massachusetts - a relatively rural area, but a hotbed of heavy music that spawned nationally-recognized bands such as Killswitch Engage and Shadows Fall. Unfortunately, the number of venues in the area hosting heavy music shows has dwindled in recent years, and we have collectively struggled to find a proper home for shows of this type, despite a rising number of bands and musicians active in the local scene. The demand for more rock, punk, and metal shows in our area is obvious, but the lack of a quality mid-sized concert venue makes it difficult to attract national headliners that could ultimately fulfill that demand.

Our goal is to showcase some of the best underground bands that New England has to offer in the hopes of providing the jump-start that our local music scene needs. In future iterations of RPM Fest, we plan to bring in national headlining acts and additional sponsors and vendors. Looking further into the future, we hope use the momentum from RPM Fest to found an independent music venue that will become a regular stop on the touring circuit for nationally-known rock, punk, and metal bands.

Any questions? Look on the RPM Fest FAQ page for answers.