Top 5 New Jersey Festivals for 2024
I love the idea of an all-day New Jersey festival or weekend festival in New Jersey enjoying food, drink, and entertainment on a beautiful day.
There’s something about just walking around and taking in the vibe and atmosphere of a New Jersey Festival that makes you feel great and enjoy the day.
According to VisitNJ.org, there are well over a hundred or more New Jersey festivals every year. I wish I could say that I’ve been to all of them, however, I can’t even say that I’ve heard of all of them.
According to a new study by Betway, they found which New Jersey festivals are the best in the state. Of course, “best” is subjective, but they based it on Google searches over the past year. They discovered which New Jersey festivals we seeking more information about.
Top 5 Festivals in New Jersey
Rock, Ribs and Ridges New Jersey Festival
One of the absolute favorite New Jersey Festivals is the Rock, Ribs, and Ridges Festival at Sussex County Fairgrounds. It’s in its fourteenth year and coming up again at the end of June. It runs for three days and features some of the best barbeque you’ll ever taste. This year’s bands include Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes and Molly Hatchet.
Barefoot Country Music Fest
Another amazing New Jersey Festival in June is the Barefoot Country Music Fest in Wildwood. It has over forty artists on five different stages. This year the lineup lists American Idol Judge Luke Bryan, former American Idol judge Keith Urban, Kane Brown, Old Dominion, The Beach Boys, and Jersey’s own John Eddie.
New Jersey Film Festival
Right here at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, you’ll find the New Jersey Film Festival. The 29th is dedicated, ”to exhibiting independent, classic, international, and experimental films.” It’s happening from late May through early June and you can get a ticket for as low as 15 dollars.
Beardfest
Beardfest happens in Hammonton, New Jersey mid-June and is a “three-day celebration of creative expression.” The website says, “Beardfest curates ample opportunities for attendees to learn, network, and participate so that we all go home feeling empowered, connected, and alive. The schedule is packed with self-sufficiency workshops, discussion groups, movement classes, music lessons, spirituality circles, and more.”
New Jersey Wine and Food Festival
Any festival with “wine and food” in the title has to be fun. The New Jersey Wine and Food Festival at Crystal Springs Resort happens this weekend in Hamburg, NJ in North Jersey. It’s an opportunity to sample some delicious wine and tasty dishes created by some of the best chefs and winemakers.
This year the New Jersey festival features around forty chefs including Chef David Burke, Bravo Top Chefs David Vianna and Karen Akunowicz, and Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto.
Tickets for the festival events range from about 32 dollars to 375 dollars.
If you’re wondering which of these festivals garnered the most searches it was the Barefoot Country Music Fest. That was followed by the New Jersey Film Festival, Beardfest, the New Jersey Wine and Food Festival, and the Rock, Ribs and Ridges Festival.
While the theme of each of these New Jersey festivals varies, they all promise a great experience depending on your taste.
Enjoy!
6 Wild Moments From Coachella
Coachella 2024’s first weekend came and went with a bang. The famous California Music & Arts Festival had us in shock and awe with amazing special guests throughout the weekend.
During weekend one, big names like Bebe Rexha, Tems, Victoria Monet, Renee Rapp, Tyler, the Creator, Lana Del Rey, Ice Spice, Sublime, Vampire Weekend, Doja Cat, J Balvin, Jhene Aiko, No Doubt, Coi Leray, Grimes, 21 Savage, Lauryn Hill, Taking Back Sunday, Lil Yachty, and many more.
As always, famous faces were in attendance, watching their friends perform and letting loose with the rest of the crowd. Notably, Justin Bieber showed up without his wife, Hailey Bieber, adding to the rumors that their marriage isn’t doing well. Meanwhile, love birds Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce hit up multiple stages, watching from the pit and getting super affectionate.
While folks were expecting perfect shows and wild special guests brought on stage during performances, there were some artists who dropped the ball during their set. Grimes kept fumbling with her mixes during her set. She told the crowd that there has never been a show of hers without a “technical difficulty,” and as she tried to explain to the Coachella crowd, she said, “Don’t blame me because it’s not my fault! Well, it’s partially my fault, but it’s not entirely my fault.” In the “classic Grimes fashion,” the musician added that her songs had been set to a double tempo and had to do “a lot of internal math” to try to get it sorted to play for the patiently waiting crowd.
(Photo by Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for Coachella)
On social media, however, fans were making fun of her meltdown at the technical difficulties, with users pointing out that this isn’t the first time Grimes has done this at her concerts. Meanwhile, one fan said, “This could be the worst performance in the history of Coachella.” She took to X (formerly Twitter) to issue a formal apology to fans. Adding that she “admittedly am not in the best mood atm,” Grimes said her set next week “will be flawless.”
Besides the mishaps, there were plenty of awe-inspiring, wild moments from Coachella’s first weekend.
Take a look below at the 6 wild moments from Coachella:
