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 […]

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 […]

With tomorrow the start of the three-day Bamboozle music festival, the main stage straddling the boardwalk on the north end appears this morning to be completed. Streets in the northern waterfront area east of Kingsley Avenue are already closed off. While security staff from festival organizer LiveNation are shooing away curiosity-seekers, the festival area was […]

With about a month left until the Bamboozle music festival comes to town, the city is working on keeping the public in the loop. “The public is very concerned about what is going to happen when the Bamboozle festival comes to the city,” special events coordinator Tom Gilmour said at last night’s council meeting. Event […]

When an estimated 100,000 concert-goers flood the city during  Bamboozle festival weekend, the police plan to enlist the help of 70 officers  — 40 more than usual on the busiest weekends. “The whole city is going to be pretty crowded,” Police Chief Mark Kinmon [pictured above] said. “We have a lot of concerns about the weekend and I think […]