The second annual JP Music Festival

The second annual JP Music Festival will be held at Pinebank Field on Saturday, September 8^th, 2012 from 12-7 PM.

The free festival will have two stages, with continuous music from more than 24 artists and bands. As with its first festival in 2011, the festival features musicians, bands, or orchestra members who either live or work in Boston’s Jamaica Plain neighborhood.

The festival’s music is as diverse as Jamaica Plain is itself, with this year’s genres including funk, jazz, Mexican, classical, hip-hop, rock, Americana, folk, dance, punk, pop, and metal.

A 75-minute mix tape featuring most of the performers can be heard on Soundcloud.

The 2012 line-up will feature:

• Almost Righteous
• Rick Berlin with the Nickel & Dime Band
• Eamonn Bonner
• Bob Bradshaw
• Dennis Brennan
• Select Members of the Cambridge Symphony Orchestra
• Coyote Kolb
• Lauren DeRose
• Amelia Emmet & Thick Wild
• Gracious Calamity
• Jim Hobbs
• Jamaica Plain Symphony Orchestra
• The Late Greats
• Lenny Lashley's Gang of One
• Lono
• Lovewhip
• Mariachi Mexamerica
• Morris and the East Coast
• The Needy Visions
• Riding Shotgun
• Rocky Nook
• Streight Angular
• Sweatshop
• Tallahassee
• The Whiskey Boys

The festival will also have food trucks on-site available as of 11 AM, activities for kids, music merchandise, and a bike rack for anyone who would like to lock up at Pinebank.

You can RSVP on Facebook to help spread the word. 

The rain date is Sunday, September 9^th, 2012.

This year the Premier Sponsor is Galway House and Stage Sponsor is City Feed.

For additional details, follow the festival on Twitter or like on Facebook.