August 8th – 10th, 2013 at Hemlock Hollow Farm in Claverack, NY (Ghent, NY) The Big Up Music & Arts Festival has unveiled their Phase Three lineup announcement adding fifteen more acts to the festival along with a special Kung Fu Tribute Set to Prince featuring Jans Ingber of The Motet. You can also expect several other surprise guests because “We don’t give a damn, We just want to jam, Party up!” One of San Francisco’s most sought after DJs [...]

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(Ghent, NY) The Big Up Music & Arts Festival has unveiled their Phase Two lineup featuring more than 50 stellar acts including experimental world fusion performers Beats Antique, producer and live artist GAUDI, British electro-dance band The Egg, and drummer/producer DrFameus (aka Allen Aucoin of The Disco Biscuits), plus an extra special set by nu-funk ninjas Kung Fu. Taking place August 8th – 10th at Hemlock Hollow Farm in Claverack, NY, these artists join Holy Fuck, Escort, the
world premiere of Abakus live band, [...]

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The Big Up Drops August 8th – 10th in Claverack, NY! Selecting the defining sounds of summer once again, this year’s Phase One acts include Holy Fuck, Escort, the world premiere of Abakus live band, a DJ set from Chris Keating of Yeasayer, Jojo Mayer & Nerve, host band Higher Organix, Kung Fu, Dopapod, Brothers Past, Normal Instruments and Party Supplies. Additional artists and major headliners to be announced soon! We are excited to announce our new home, the awesome [...]

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Greetings Big Uppers! Today is a special day for all of us, because today we have officially scheduled a date for our return to Earth! We are happy to announce that the Big Up will touch down for the three days of August 8.9.10, 2013.  You better free up some space on your mental hard drive, because you’re gonna jam pack it with summer 2013′s best memories. The coordinates for a perfect landing zone are yet to be released, but [...]

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After last year’s The Big Up, I slept for about sixteen hours straight.  I was sleep deprived, my body hurt, and I couldn’t imagine being anywhere other than a bed after spending three nights in a tent.  Normally, I’d get flack from my family for being so “lazy,” but after what was surely one of the most exhausting weekends of the summer, even they agreed that I looked like I needed the rest, after a serious shower of course.  Was I [...]

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This is the Mothership transmitting from space. When last we gathered, the energy from your cosmic dance generated an unknown physical phenomenon that collapsed on itself when you all left the party. The vacuum created a wormhole that sucked us in and spit us out into a previously undiscovered frontier, where we have been traveling ever since. We journeyed through fields of psychedelic light and forests of galactic funk so magnetic that we could only tear ourselves away in order to bring the beats [...]

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