LAVA Music Festival Announces Inaugural Event In VA–Get $10 Off Tickets Now!

by | Jan 16, 2015 | MUSIC

While music fans across the country are still gushing over the line-ups for Coachella and Bonnaroo this year, Virginians can rejoice as a new music festival has just been announced. LAVA Music Festival will hold its inaugural event on May 16th at the Suffolk Executive Airport in Suffolk, Virginia for a one day show featuring ten bands.


While music fans across the country are still gushing over the line-ups for Coachella and Bonnaroo this year, Virginians can rejoice as a new music festival has just been announced. LAVA Music Festival will hold its inaugural event on May 16th at the Suffolk Executive Airport in Suffolk, Virginia for a one day show featuring ten bands.

LAVA’s producer Justin Billcheck hopes LAVA will become “an annual staple in the Virginia music scene,” and has raised the stakes with ten great bands that music fans will instantly recognize. With celebrated acts like Cloud Nothings and of Montreal and Richmond favorites such as Fitz & The Tantrums and Kishi Bashi, this line-up is definitely a perfect way for LAVA to make a big impact their first year.

Here’s the full line-up for the festival’s first year:
Fitz and the Tantrums
of Montreal
Mutemath
Robert DeLong
Tokyo Police Club
Kishi Bashi
Cloud Nothings
A Great Big Pile of Leaves
Major & the Monbacks
Wyteshayds

In addition to the ten bands and ten hours of live music, LAVA will also feature a “Lava Lounge” made up of a bar and “retro arcade” as well as plenty of local vendors for food, craft beer, wine, and cider.

Tickets are on-sale now with early bird pricing in effect for a limited time. General Admission is $55 until March 1st and VIP is $125 until February 1st. Children 12 and under can get in for free for General Admission or can pay $65 for VIP access until February 1st, 2015.

You can purchase your tickets now by clicking here and as an extra gift to you, use promo code LAVALAVA for $10 off General Admission through January 22nd!

For more information, visit LAVAMusicFestival.com.

Marilyn Drew Necci

Marilyn Drew Necci

Former GayRVA editor-in-chief, RVA Magazine editor for print and web. Anxiety expert, proud trans woman, happily married.




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