Pop-Con Festival to Provide a Lollapalooza for 'Tweens'
By: Amanda Markell
Last updated December 17th , 2009
By: Amanda Markell
Last updated December 17th , 2009
After numerous music festivals have been maintained in the United States, concert promoter Live Nation has noticed the absence in music that appeals to a younger crowd.Some of the more successful multi-day shows like Coachella and Lollapalooza rarely stray from various aspects of the alternative rock genre. Now, the recently announced 'Pop-Con' Festival showcases artists like Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez as the headliners.
The event is being advertised as an 'all-day pop culture experience for tweens' and will take place at the Nassau Colisuem in Uniondale, New York on Feb. 20th.
Besides Bieber and Gomez (with her band The Scene), the kid-centric lineup includes Push Play, Care Bears on Fire, Nickelodeon’s Nat & Alex Wolff (aka The Naked Brothers Band), Mercy Mercedes and more. Additional acts will be announced in the coming weeks.
The event is said to be geared toward an audience from ages 8-18and the festival will require adult supervision if you're under the age of 18. How many adults will agree to accompany their child to this? I'm assuming ver tolerant ones.
In addition to music by some of the hottest acts on the tween scene, Pop-Con will feature gaming stations, product sampling and vendors and a culture mall (which will host independent fashion merchandise companies like Glamour Kills), plus programmed lectures, seminars and opportunities for aspiring young musical artists, actors and actresses to score advice from top pros in the music, movie, television and sports industries.
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