As promised, the day after DERVOS we’re putting on a 1-day music festival powered by off-grid solar and batteries. We’re finally at the stage where we can announce it, so we wanted to make sure the DERTF community was the first to know.
The show will be on Governor’s Island in the same location as DERVOS. There will be 4 great acts on the main stage, plus a DJ set. Doors open at 3pm, show starts at 5pm, and it will all wrap up at 10pm.
Buy your tickets here! And check out the official press release below for more details.
Clean energy organizations DER Task Force and SOLARPUNKS are teaming up with our friends at AdHoc to throw an entirely solar powered music festival. New Energy is a sequel, of sorts, to last year’s solar powered Brooklyn show, and it happens on Saturday, October 18 at Governors Island‘s Parade Ground. The lineup includes Eartheater, Junglepussy, Doss, GIFT, and Ivan Berko.
“After last year’s successful proof of concept, we’re thrilled to officially launch New Energy, the solar-powered music festival,” DERTF’s James McGinniss says. “While there are still challenges for the industry to achieve 100% solar-powered festivals, we want people to realize that if we can do it, they can too. There’s so much doomerism and blackpilling about the climate and our ability to shift away from fossil fuels. Everything about New Energy’s vibe and curation is aimed to inject a different kind of energy into the world — one that says the future is actually going to be awesome.”
“The name New Energy has a double meaning, and we’re echoing the forward-thinking ethos of the overall event in our music curation,” organizer Ryan Leas adds. “Building upon the groundwork laid last year, we want to feature artists on the rise and on the bleeding edge — both sonically and thematically reshaping our present while plotting a course towards a future we can’t see yet. These are musicians that make us feel that mystery isn’t frightening, but exhilarating.”