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ProgStock 2025 to Take Place at Williams Center

Published by New Jersey Stage

originally published: 04/14/2025

(RUTHERFORD, NJ) -- ProgStock 2025 takes place at the Williams Center from October 10-12, 2025. ProgStock is Northeast America's only Progressive Rock music festival.  Performers include Steve Hogarth of Marillion with his solo project, h Natural, in his first U.S. performance.

Other Prog greats playing are: Pattern-Seeking Animals, IO Earth and the Orchestra of Sound & Emotion, Dave Bainbridge & Sally Minnear, and Mike Keneally & Beer For Dolphins.

ProgStock 2025 will feature performances from favorites including Discipline, Orpheus Nine, The Cyberiam, Funhouse Mirrors, Peter Jones, Points North, Melanie Mau & Martin Schella.

Special guest hosts include Saga’s Michael Sadler and Seren Sadler, Pattern Seeking Animals’ Jimmy Keegan, Sound of Contact’s Matt Dorsey and Thid.

Tickets, ranging from single day tickets (between $70 and $90 plus taxes and fees), pre-Festival event passes ($30 plus taxes and fees) to “Prog-Ducer Passes” (for all three nights at $295 USD plus taxes and fees) and 5-Year Patron Passes are available for purchase online. The Williams Center is located at 1 Williams Plaza in Rutherford, New Jersey.




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The Pre-Festival celebrations on Thursday, October 9 start at 6:30pm with a live performance from keyboardist and Moog Museum “patron saint” Robeone, followed by Rush tribute Fred Barchetta. At 9:00pm ProgStock presents Last Call Live, a highly coordinated effort in which amateur fan musicians perform complex progressive rock songs on a professional stage. This is NOT a jam. It is not an open mic stage. It is for talented musicians who can play difficult parts in progressive rock songs. Musicians can network to play on Facebook here.


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