Headliner Announced For Fall Arts And Music Festival In Hoboken

HOBOKEN, NJ — The Hoboken Fall Arts and Music Festival will take place Sunday, Oct. 2, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on lower Washington Street, a five-block walk from the Hoboken train station.

The festival, which runs from the foot of Washington Street up to Seventh Street, is free.

There will be 300 artists, businesses, and food vendors, and two performance stages with live music.

In the past, headliners have included Joan Jett, Leon Russell, and the Smithereens.

Music Lineup For Fall 2022

The headliner this fall will be the Alejandro Escovedo Band.

Escovedo has been in punk, country, and rock bands, including The Nuns, Rank and File, and True Believers.

According to the city, he's "a Mexican-American kid with Texas roots and California raising, taking on immigration issues in two continents with an Italian band ... He’s been a punk of the rebel kind in The Nuns, a cowpunk of the non-Western variety in Rank and File, commander of a guitar army in The True Believers, an orchestral conductor in his solo work."

Also, "He has collaborated with Bruce Springsteen, John Cale, Los Lobos, Peter Buck & Scott McCaughey, Los Texmaniacs, and Chuck Prophet. No Depression magazine declared him the Artist of the Decade."

Other participating musicians will include: Freedy Johnston, Cliff Westfall, Rio the Messenger,
Frankie Morales and the Mambo of the Times Orchestra, The Gentlemen of Soul, Hudson City Rats, Matt Madly, 3 Dollars and Sir Synthesis. Find out more here.

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