The Bamboozle festival will bring thousands of people to Asbury Park in just over two weeks. Early next week, city officials and representatives from LiveNation will share details of the festival with residents and business owners in two public awareness meetings. “We are scheduling public meetings to notify the residents and business community and our […]

The Asbury Park city council will meet tomorrow in council chambers, with a workshop session at 6 p.m. and a regular meeting at 7 p.m. Items on the agenda include: • Scheduling a series of public awareness meetings for the Bamboozle music festival, slated for May 18 through 20. The festival is expected to bring […]

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 […]

At Wednesday night’s council workshop session, which starts at 6 p.m., the city plans to discuss communicating with the public regarding the upcoming Bamboozle music festival under an agenda item reading “Schedule Bamboozle Public Awareness Meetings.” In addition, the governing body is scheduled to discuss in closed executive session unspecified amendments to its festival contract […]

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 […]