The second day of the Bamboozle music festival is set to open at 2:00 p.m. today, with estimates for attendance double last night’s crowd. According to Asbury Park city manager Terry Reidy, approximately 23,000 were on hand Friday. That exceeded the projections of Bamboozle promoter LiveNation which predicted 20,000. LiveNation predicts 40,000 today in Asbury […]

Many in Asbury Park’s downtown business district were comparing the first night of the Bamboozle festival to a huge storm, as the public took heed not to drive into the city. On what normally would be a busy Friday night, with packed restaurants on a clear 60 degree evening, the situation more closely resembled a […]

The first day of Bamboozle went off without a hitch as darkness fell, with the downtown and beachfront free of major traffic or parking snags. Just before 9 p.m., Asbury Park city manager Terry Reidy said the crowds numbered “somewhere around 23,000, but I haven’t gotten an update in a few hours.” Bamboozle promoter LiveNation […]

Thousands of festival-goers lined the boardwalk awaiting entry to the first day of the Bamboozle music festival before doors opened at 5 p.m. today. As seen in the photo above, the line stretched from McLoone’s Supper Club to the Casino. After gaining entry, music fans will have access to the seven stages placed throughout the […]

With thousands lining the boardwalk waiting to enter the Bamboozle festival which just began at 5 p.m., the streets of Asbury Park east of Main Street were surprisingly quiet. At 4:45 pm, the southern entry to Asbury Park on Main Street from Ocean Grove had little traffic, as shown in photo above. Parking spaces abounded […]

This week’s Friday Foto comes from the Ocean Grove photographer who started it all, Chris Spiegel, our first Friday Foto feature whose shot of The Great Auditorium with lightning striking in the background was an instant hit with Asbury Park Sun readers. This recent shot taken by Spiegel is of the Casino building at the […]

With less than an hour to go before the opening of the weekend Bamboozle festival at 5:00 p.m., several key traffic entryways to Asbury Park were clear. At 4:15 p.m., traffic was light at the Deal Lake bridges into Asbury Park on Norwood Avenue and Main Street. Sunset Avenue also had light traffic entering Asbury. […]

With only a few hours to go until the biggest beach concert in Asbury Park’s history, the city was quiet this morning — although more festival-goers were filling town by the hour. “I thought it would be a little bit busier,” said boardwalk bartender Dave Pinto, although “in the last half hour, it’s tripled,” he […]

The Asbury Park police aren’t the only ones with their hands full this weekend. Law enforcement officials in Allenhurst, Deal, Loch Arbour, Ocean Grove and Neptune are gearing up for what could be record-breaking crowds in town for the Bamboozle music festival, which starts today at 5 p.m. Up to 40,000 are expected in town […]

The Bamboozle event area is ready for today’s opening of the three-day music festival in Asbury Park. The Sun’s Molly Mulshine was on the scene. Crowds of 90,000 are expected over the three days of the festival, with concert promoter LiveNation estimating attendance at 20,000 today, 40,000 on Saturday and 30,000 on Sunday. The festival […]