Kevin Morby announces This Is a Festival w/ Jessica Pratt, Youth Lagoon, Makaya McCraven, more

Kevin Morby has curated a new single-day festival in California. This Is a Festival happens on Saturday, October 12 at The Quarry Amphitheater in Santa Cruz, where he’ll be joined by Jessica Pratt, Youth Lagoon (performing solo), Makaya McCraven, Ben Kweller, and Blackstarkids. It’s presented by Noise Pop, and tickets go on sale Friday, August 23 at 10 AM PDT.

“Getting asked to host a festival is very surreal,” Kevin says. “It feels like a dream in which you’re trying to rationalize how all of these different people from your life are somehow in the same place at the same time. In the case of my festival, it’s an absolute dream come true: five of my favorite artists spanning the last twenty years of my life all performing at an amphitheater that will be MC’d by my favorite podcast, How Long Gone. Come watch myself, Jessica Pratt, Youth Lagoon, Ben Kweller, Makaya McCraven, and Blackstarkids share the stage of the Quarry Amphitheater in Santa Cruz this October—which is to really say—come be in my dream!”

Morby is reuniting with Cassie Ramone for the first The Babies shows in a decade in September, and he also has dates with The Hold Steady, festival appearances including FORM Arcosanti, and a tour of Europe on his schedule. See all dates below.

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KEVIN MORBY: 2024 TOUR DATES
Sep 18, 2024 Teregram Ballroom Los Angeles, CA *#
Sep 19, 2024 Teregram Ballroom Los Angeles, CA *
Sep 22, 2024 Sing Out Loud Festival St. Augustine, FL
Sep 23, 2024 Elsewhere Brooklyn, NY *+
Sep 24, 2024 Warsaw Brooklyn, NY *%
Sep 28, 2024 Highlands Music Festival Walden, Canada
Oct 4, 2024 Variety Playhouse Atlanta, GA ^
Oct 5, 2024 Variety Playhouse Atlanta, GA ^
Oct 6, 2024 FORM 2024 Arcosanti, AZ
Oct 12, 2024 The Quarry Amphitheater Santa Cruz, CA
Oct 19, 2024 The Salt Shed Chicago, IL
Nov 9, 2024 Inside Seaside Festival Gdańsk, Poland
Nov 11, 2024 Paard The Hague, Netherlands
Nov 12, 2024 De Oosterpoort Groningen, GR
Nov 13, 2024 Trix Antwerp, Belgium
Nov 14, 2024 Muziekgieterij Maastricht, Netherlands
Nov 15, 2024 Bürgerhaus Stollwerck Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia
Nov 16, 2024 Rolling Stone Beach Weißenhäuser Strand, Germany
Nov 20, 2024 Teatro das Figarus Faro, Portugal ~
Nov 21, 2024 Culturgest Lisbon, Portugal ~
Nov 22, 2024 Theatro Circo Braga, Portugal ~
Nov 23, 2024 Teatro Viriato Viseu, Portugal ~
Nov 24, 2024 Auditório de Espinho Espinho, Portugal ~

* The Babies show
# with PG14
+ with Jeffrey Lewis
% with Joanna Sternberg
^ with The Hold Steady
~ with Ensemble da Escola Profissional de Música de Espinho