Langerado Music Festival was an annual music festival, taking place in early spring in South Florida, first organized in 2003 by Ethan Schwartz.
In 2008, the festival was held at the
Seminole
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Big Cypress Indian Reservation
The Big Cypress Indian Reservation is one of the six reservations of the Seminole Tribe of Florida. It is located in southeastern Hendry County and northwestern Broward County, in southern Florida, United States. Its location is on the Atlanti ...
in the
Everglades
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.
The festival featured primarily music of the
jamband
A jam band is a musical group whose concerts (and live albums) are characterized by lengthy improvisational "jams." These include extended musical improvisation over rhythmic grooves and chord patterns, and long sets of music which often cro ...
genre, but also offered a wide selection of other musical styles and traditionally offered a stage for local bands, as well.
On June 1, 2011, tickets went on sale for the 2011 festival.
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Past Langerado Festivals
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2009 Langerado Music Festival The seventh Langerado Festival was scheduled to be held on March 6–8, 2009. The festival was planned to move to Bicentennial Park in Miami, Florida.
This caused controversy among fans who disliked the direction the festival is heading, consid ...
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2008 Langerado Music Festival {{Unreferenced, date=February 2010
The sixth Langerado Festival was held March 6, 2008 through March 9, 2008, making it one day longer than the previous year. The festival took place on the Big Cypress Indian Reservation, thirty miles west of Ft. ...
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2007 Langerado Music Festival {{unreferenced, date=September 2015
The fifth Langerado Festival was held from Friday, March 9, to Sunday, March 11, 2007. The event was expanded to three full days of music, which started with performances by Trey Anastasio and STS9 on Thursday, M ...
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2006 Langerado Music Festival The fourth Langerado music festival was once again held at Markham Park in Sunrise, Fl on March 11 and March 12, 2006. The fourth installment of this festival series expanded further, with several pre and post festival shows. On March 10, the festiv ...
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2005 Langerado Music Festival {{Unreferenced, date=June 2019, bot=noref (GreenC bot)
The third Langerado Music Festival was held on March 12 and March 13, 2005. This marked the first year of Langerado as a multi-day event and the debut of the festival at Markham Park in Sunri ...
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2004 Langerado Music Festival The second Langerado Music Festival was held on March 6, 2004, in the heart of downtown Hollywood, FL at the Young Circle Park. In excess of 4,000 people attended this show, which followed in the tradition of the previous year and was a single day ...
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2003 Langerado Music Festival The first Langerado was held as a single day festival and took place at Stadium Festival Fair Grounds, Ft. Lauderdale, FL. The show was held on March 8, 2003 and included three stages and fifteen bands. Approximately 3,500 fans were in attendance f ...
See also
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List of jam band music festivals
This is a list of jam band music festivals. This list may have some overlap with list of historic rock festivals and list of reggae festivals. Jam bands are musical groups who relate to a unique fan culture that began in the 1960s with Grateful ...
References
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External links
Langerado Official Website
Music festivals in Florida
Rock festivals in the United States
Jam band festivals
Music festivals established in 2003
2003 establishments in Florida