Philadelphia public radio station WXPN is not letting the cancellation of its 2020 XPoNential Music Festival from bringing music lovers an exciting, three-day music festival filled with dozens of hours of live music performances, from Friday night July 24 through Sunday, July 26.
XPNFest Weekend will feature archived full-length sets and two-song sets presented online from some of XPoNential Music Festival’s most memorable past performers on Friday, July 24 and Saturday, July 25. On Sunday, July 26, new and exclusive live, full-length performances from seven of the artists who were scheduled to delight fans in person at the 2020 XPoNential Music Festival will be presented both online and on-air at WXPN.
“XPNFest Weekend will be the next best thing to being outdoors on the Delaware Riverfront with thousands of other music lovers enjoying our unique, annual XPoNential Music Festival,” said WXPN GM Roger LaMay. “To have almost a quarter of the artists who were to have appeared live at the 2020 festival still want to give WXPN members and listeners new and exclusive full-length, live performances on Sunday, July 26 says a great deal about their affection for the WXPN community.”
WXPN is also offering fun ways for festival goers to maximize their enjoyment of the three-day XPNFest Weekend, such as tips for creating an at-home festival vibe, fest food recipes, trivia quizzes, and a commemorative t-shirt available for pre-order. Viewers and listeners can use #xpnfest to share XPNFest Weekend on social media.
The annual three-day festival that features the expertly curated mix of established and new artists enjoyed by WXPN members and listeners was supposed to take place Friday, July 31 through Sunday, August 2 at Wiggins Park and BB&T Pavilion, located next to each other on the Camden riverfront. The 2020 festival was cancelled on April 30, citing the coronavirus pandemic and concerns for the safety of the WXPN community.
Scroll down for the daily lineup.
XPNFEST WEEKEND ARTIST PERFORMANCES (SCHEDULE TO BE ANNOUNCED)
FRIDAY, JULY 24 / 3:00PM START TIME
FULL SETS ONLINE AT XPN.ORG:
Charles Bradley & His Extraordinaires (2017)
Guster (2019)
Indigo Girls (2015)
Kathleen Edwards (2019)
TWO-SONG SETS ONLINE AT XPN.ORG:
Blind Boys of Alabama (2018)
Colvin & Earle (2016)
Caroline Rose (2019)
Darlingside (2016)
David Wax Museum (2016)
Diane Coffee (2016)
Femi Kuti & the Positive Force (2016)
Foxygen (2017)
Hop Along (2015)
Joseph (2017)
Josh Ritter & The Royal City Band (2018)
Low Cut Connie (2018)
M.A.K.U. Soundsystem (2018)
The Marcus King Band (2016)
Mt. Joy (2018)
Nilüfer Yanya (2019)
OJR (Oliver John-Rodgers) (2016)
Preservation Hall Jazz Band (2017)
Rhiannon Giddens (2017)
Strand of Oaks (2017)
The Record Company (2017)
The War & Treaty (2019)
SATURDAY, JULY 25 / 3:00 PM START TIME
FULL SETS ONLINE AT XPN.ORG:
Dawes (2019)
Hurray for the Riff Raff (2017)
Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real (2018)
Margo Price (2018)
TWO-SONG SETS ONLINE AT XPN.ORG:
Arkells (2017)
Bermuda Triangle feat. Brittany Howard (of Alabama Shakes) (2018)
Buckwheat Zydeco (2015)
Christone “Kingfish” Ingram (2019)
Courtney Barnett (2015)
Courtney Marie Andrews (2018)
Dave Hause & The Mermaid (2017)
David Bromberg Quintet (2017)
Delta Rae (2015)
Drive-By Truckers (2017)
Greg Sover (2018)
Lord Huron (2015)
The McCrary Sisters (2019)
Phoebe Bridgers (2018)
Queen of Jeans (2016)
St. Paul and The Broken Bones (2019)
Sweet Spirit (2017)
Tank and The Bangas (2018)
The Districts (2016)
The Suffers (2016)
SUNDAY, JULY 26 / 3:00 PM START TIME
NEW AND EXCLUSIVE LIVE, FULL SETS ON-AIR AT WXPN AND ONLINE AT XPN.ORG:
Devon Gilfillian
The Districts
Great Time
Illiterate Light
Liz Phair
Michaela Anne
Nicole Atkins
To view XPNFest Weekend online performances and all information, visit www.xpn.org. For all ways to listen and enjoy WXPN, visit https://xpn.org/about-xpn/ways-to-stream-wxpn. Follow WXPN on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
WXPN, the nationally recognized leader in Triple A radio and the premier guide for discovering new and significant artists in rock, blues, roots and folk, is the non-commercial, member-supported, public radio service of the University of Pennsylvania. WXPN produces World Cafe, public radio’s most popular program of popular music that is distributed by NPR to more than 200 U.S. radio stations, and the Peabody Award-winning Kids Corner. WXPN serves the greater Philadelphia area at 88.5 FM, the Lehigh Valley at 104.9 FM, Worton/Baltimore at 90.5 FM, Lancaster/York at 88.7 FM, Harrisburg at 99.7 FM, North Jersey/Poconos at 91.9 FM, and the world via online streaming at www.XPN.org. The WXPN app brings all of WXPN to any mobile device. WXPN produces XPoNential Radio on XPN2 as its secondary radio channel in HD, also available online. www.xpn.org.
