The Linton Music Festival

First round of acts confirmed!

After poring over hundreds of submissions, we are please to announce the first round of confirmed acts that will be performing at this year’s Linton Music Festival! The musical offering will be extremely diverse, as always, with bands representing every corner of the State of Indiana. Fans can expect a great mix of rock, blues, bluegrass, country, folk, electronic, funk, and jazz! What more could you ask for? View the current list of acts after the jump.

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Linton Music Festival loses great friend, supporter

Tom Jones is pictured at the Inaugural Linton Music Festival in 2005 with event founders Jared Albright and Caylan Evans.

The Linton Music Festival lost a very good friend on Thursday morning. Tom Jones, Mayor of Linton, passed away at his home due to heart-related problems.

Tom was a pillar of support for the festival from the very beginning. The idea that became LMF was hatched at his place of business, Linton Sportings Goods, just months before he was elected as Mayor of the City. His countless hours of behind-the-scenes work since helped create funding to ensure that the festival would be free for the community.

To further support LMF, all of the t-shirts sold at the festival since 2005 for our fundraising efforts were provided, free of charge, by Tom and his wife, Patti, on behalf of Linton Sporting Goods. Like so many things he did for his community, he did this without wanting any recognition.

There aren’t enough words that can ever express the amount of gratitude that we, the staff of LMF, have for Tom. The Saturday of this year’s LMF would have been Tom’s birthday. LMF was an event he always looked forward to, even joining The Rock Show on stage in 2009 in singing ‘Welcome to the Jungle,’ as depicted in this photo at right.

Tom was a compassionate man, who deeply loved his family & the community of Linton. The LMF staff would like to dedicate the 2011 Linton Music Festival to Tom. We believe it will be our greatest show yet, and we think Tom will be made very proud by it.

Video from LMF 2010

In this clip, No More Kings (Los Angeles, CA) perform a 2-song encore featuring Sweep The Leg and Obey The Groove. The video for Sweep The Leg went viral on YouTube and received several million views. It didn’t hurt that the video included the entire cast (except for Pat Morita) of 1984′s Karate Kid.

View more Linton Music Fest videos at LintonTV.com!

Dates announced for 2011 Linton Music Festival

The 7th Annual Linton Music Festival will be held on September 2nd, 3rd, and 4th in Linton, indiana. The exact location has yet to be determined. Keep checking back as we plan to introduce the new website next month along with the first additions to the lineup. in the meantime, be sure to follow the action on our Facebook page!

We are not currently accepting food vendor requests or unsolicited band materials. You can contact us by visiting the contact page.

Wanted: Artisans and creators of hand-made goods! Sell your wares to festival guests in the LMF marketplace! We will soon be accepting applications. Please join our mailing list if you are interested in becoming a craft vendor for the 2011 event.

Another one for the history books!

Thank you to everyone involved with making this year’s Linton Music Festival possible. I would like to thank all of the sponsors, bands, volunteers, and fans for your support! You are the driving force behind indiana’s largest free music festival!

More photos, videos, and a longer recap blog post are coming soon! You can revisit the entire weekend’s events here with clips from the live video stream thanks to The Current.

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/lmftest

See you in 2011!

Jared Albright
Festival Director