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May 10th - Joshua Fest 2012 Announce the addition of Switchfoot! Plus Price Increase and Street Team!

California’s Joshua Fest 2012 Announce The Addition of SWITCHFOOT!: plus Relient K, Five Iron Frenzy, Mxpx, The OC Supertones, Bleach The City Harmonic, Manafest and a Four Day Pass for as little at $25 till May 31st!

PRICE INCREASE MAY 31st: Our ticket provider is based on the East Coast so be sure to make your purchase BEFORE 9:00 PM Pacific Standard Time. Also, please be advised that while our original prices are still in effect until May 31st, our prices after the increase have been adjusted to reflect our current lineup.

STREET TEAM NOW ONLINE: We’ve added fliers for you to download and print out. Please help us by taking these to your churches, to your youth-group, or even to your local coffee shop. You can also join our street team and we will mail you some full posters with fancy club cards to spread around your area.

Fourth Day Added & Interactive Workshops: Joshua Fest will open at noon on THURSDAY Aug 30th. This day is being sponsored by our good friends at Slo-Speak Records and will include some amazing new artists like Sons, Owen Pye, Pioneer, and some favorites like Blood and Water and The Return of BLEACH!

In addition to 4 days of Camping, Worship, & Music, there are special interactive workshops that will be hosted by several amazing contributors including: Air 1 Radios: Brant Hanson, Project 86 Vocalist & Author: Andrew Schwab, And Esterlyn Vocalist: Luke Caldwell.

Four day festival tickets are currently as low as $25! But don’t delay. Prices increase after May 31st. Check out www.joshuafest.com for all your festival ticket information, group rates, and details. Kids under 7 are free!

May 10th - Joshua Fest 2012 Announce the addition of Switchfoot! Plus Price Increase and Street Team!

California’s Joshua Fest 2012 Announce The Addition of SWITCHFOOT!: plus Relient K, Five Iron Frenzy, Mxpx, The OC Supertones, Bleach The City Harmonic, Manafest and a Four Day Pass for as little at $25 till May 31st!

PRICE INCREASE MAY 31st: Our ticket provider is based on the East Coast so be sure to make your purchase BEFORE 9:00 PM Pacific Standard Time. Also, please be advised that while our original prices are still in effect until May 31st, our prices after the increase have been adjusted to reflect our current lineup.

STREET TEAM NOW ONLINE: We’ve added fliers for you to download and print out. Please help us by taking these to your churches, to your youth-group, or even to your local coffee shop. You can also join our street team and we will mail you some full posters with fancy club cards to spread around your area.

Fourth Day Added & Interactive Workshops: Joshua Fest will open at noon on THURSDAY Aug 30th. This day is being sponsored by our good friends at Slo-Speak Records and will include some amazing new artists like Sons, Owen Pye, Pioneer, and some favorites like Blood and Water and The Return of BLEACH!

In addition to 4 days of Camping, Worship, & Music, there are special interactive workshops that will be hosted by several amazing contributors including: Air 1 Radios: Brant Hanson, Project 86 Vocalist & Author: Andrew Schwab, And Esterlyn Vocalist: Luke Caldwell.

Four day festival tickets are currently as low as $25! But don’t delay. Prices increase after May 31st. Check out www.joshuafest.com for all your festival ticket information, group rates, and details. Kids under 7 are free!

May 10th - Joshua Fest 2012 AnnounceThe Addition of SWITCHFOOT

That\'s right. In addition to our current lineup that includes Relient K, Five Iron Frenzy, Mxpx, The OC Supertones, Bleach The City Harmonic, Manafest and tons of others. Now we\'ve added Switchfoot! This will be the FIRST TIME that Switchfoot has every taken stage at Joshua Fest...its been a long time coming and we are really excited to welcome them to the Joshua Fest family!

PRICE INCREASE MAY 31st: Our ticket provider is based on the East Coast so be sure to make your purchase BEFORE 9:00 PM Pacific Standard Time. Also, please be advised that while our original prices are still in effect until May 31st, our prices after the increase have been adjusted to reflect our current lineup.

STREET TEAM NOW ONLINE: We’ve added fliers for you to download and print out. Please help us by taking these to your churches, to your youth-group, or even to your local coffee shop. You can also join our street team and we will mail you some full posters with fancy club cards to spread around your area.

FOURTH DAY ADDED: Joshua Fest will open at noon on THURSDAY Aug 30th. This day is being sponsored by our good friends at Slo-Speak Records and will include some amazing new artists like Sons, Owen Pye, Pioneer, and some favorites like Blood and Water and The Return of BLEACH! Come on out after work and enjoy the start to an epic weekend.

INTERACTIVE WORKSHOPS: In addition to 4 days of Camping, Worship, & Music, there are special interactive workshops that will be hosted by several amazing contributors including: Air 1 Radios: Brant Hanson, Project 86 Vocalist & Author: Andrew Schwab, And Esterlyn Vocalist: Luke Caldwell.

Four day festival tickets are currently as low as $25! But don’t delay. Prices increase after May 31st. Check out www.joshuafest.com for all your festival ticket information, group rates, and details. Kids under 7 arefree!

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April 5th - Tell Your Friends and Win Tickets to Joshua Fest 2012!

Now is your chance to help spread the word and win free Joshua Fest 2012 tickets! 1. Share the Joshua Fest 2012 Facebook Event Page with at least 25 friends. 2. Post with your name how many friends you invited on the Joshua Fest 2012 event page wall. 3. Once we get to 500 new invites we will announce a winner from the names that posted on the Wall. Thanks Joshua Fest family for sharing!

April 5th - Tell Your Friends and Win Tickets to Joshua Fest 2012!

Now is your chance to help spread the word and win free Joshua Fest 2012 tickets! 1. Share the Joshua Fest 2012 Facebook Event Page with at least 25 friends. 2. Post with your name how many friends you invited on the Joshua Fest 2012 event page wall. 3. Once we get to 500 new invites we will announce a winner from the names that posted on the Wall. Thanks Joshua Fest family for sharing!

April 5th - Help Spread The Word and Win Free Tickets!

Its really easy to win tickets to Joshua Fest 2012! All you need is a Facebook Account and follow these steps:

1. Go to The Joshua Fest 2012 Facebook Event Page and \"Invite Friends\" (You\'ll see a link in the upper right hand corner of the page). If you haven\'t already you can also click that your \"Going\" to the event on this page, sorta a online RSVP. :)

2. Once you click on \"Invite Friends\" choose at least 25 Friends to invite to Joshua Fest 2012.

3. Once you\'ve invited the 25 (OR as many more as you want) simply post on that wall that you shared and how many you shared with!

We will choose a name randomly from those that post that they shared on the Event Page! THANKS FOR SHARING!!!

March 30th - More Additions to our Lineup! Price jump coming!

So we\'ve added a few more twists to our Joshua Fest 2012 adventures! First off, we are allowing SloSpeak Records (Label to Blood & Water, SONS, Pioneers, etc) to host a whole evening! Thursday night will now be officially added to our 2012 schedule and not only will the SloSpeak roster be present but they will also be hosting a reunion show from Bleach! Also added to our lineup is one of ONLY 4 shows this summer from the Original members of MxPx! They have a new album dropping on Tuesday April 3rd called Plans Within Plans and we are honored they picked Joshua Fest to share one of these rare memories! VLOG Wars Update! Sam and Christopher sent us a fun little vlog that will be posted shortly! Congrates guys! Your tickets are waiting at will-call!!!! Do you have a VLOG you wanna send in? Post it to our facebook page or email to joshuafest@gmail.com. And finally...our tickets are about to go up in price. We know its not the greatest of news, but you couldn\'t expect the prices to last forever. Remember that the ticket agency is on EAST COAST Time, so you should probably get your tickets locked in no later then 8:00 PM on Sunday night (3/31/2012). Please keep telling your friends, family, and church groups about this ministry! And hang out with us on Facebook...check out the like button in the upper right hand corner of the website!

February 8th - VLOG Wars! Your Chance to GET FREE TICKETS!

So we are really excited to post some Video Blogs from you guys. SO excited in-fact that we will be GIVING away a pair of tickets each month! Here is how it works....upload your vlog to the Joshua Fest F/B page...your Vlog can be about anything related to Joshua Fest, news about the festival to your friends, band requests, event ideas, how you heard about it, how your getting there, how your band is wanting or practicing to play, begging your parents to let you go, convincing your youth pastor to take the group... ANYTHING flies! Once its uploaded, the video that gets THE MOST \"likes\" by Feb 29 will get a pair of tickets! The earlier you post the Vlog...the more time your video has a chance to get the most \"likes\". The winners video for this month will be posted at www.joshuafest.com the entire next month until we have a new winner. If you have friends you know that are having a hard time coming up with $ for tickets, you might want to share this with them...its a good opportunity to help spread the word and have a chance to win Free Tickets! Don\'t have a facebook page to upload to? No worries! Send us the link to joshuafest@gmail.com and we will post it for you. Now GO!GO!GO! PS. If your a band and get in for free..there are special incentives for you to VLOG too! The more likes your VLOG Gets the better spot/stage you get to play.

February 8th - VLOG Wars! Your Chance to GET FREE TICKETS!

So we are really excited to post some Video Blogs from you guys. SO excited in-fact that we will be GIVING away a pair of tickets each month! Here is how it works....upload your vlog to the Joshua Fest F/B page or email it to us at joshuafest@gmail.com and we will upload it for you. Your Vlog can be about anything Joshua Fest, news about the festival to your friends, band requests, event ideas, how you heard about it, how your getting there, how your band is wanting or practicing to play... ANYTHING flies! Once its uploaded, the video that gets THE MOST \"likes\" by Feb 29 will get a pair of tickets! The earlier you post the vlog...the more time your video has a chance to get the most \"likes\". The winners video for this month will be posted at www.joshuafest.com the entire next month until we have a new winner. If you have friends you know that are having a hard time coming up with $ for tickets, you might want to share this with them...its a good opportunity to help spread the word and have a chance to win Free Tickets! Now GO!GO!GO! PS. If your a band and get in for free..there are special incentives for you to VLOG too! The more likes your VLOG Gets the better spot/stage you get to play.

February 8th - VLOG Wars! Your Chance to GET FREE TICKETS!

So we are really excited to post some Video Blogs from you guys. SO excited in-fact that we will be GIVING away a pair of tickets each month! Here is how it works....upload your vlog to the Joshua Fest F/B page or email it to us at joshuafest@gmail.com and we will upload it for you. Your Vlog can be about anything Joshua Fest, news about the festival to your friends, band requests, event ideas, how you heard about it, how your getting there, how your band is wanting or practicing to play... ANYTHING flies! Once its uploaded, the video that gets THE MOST \"likes\" by Feb 29 will get a pair of tickets! The earlier you post the vlog...the more time your video has a chance to get the most \"likes\". The winners video for this month will be posted at www.joshuafest.com the entire next month until we have a new winner. If you have friends you know that are having a hard time coming up with $ for tickets, you might want to share this with them...its a good opportunity to help spread the word and have a chance to win Free Tickets! Now GO!GO!GO! PS. If your a band and get in for free..there are special incentives for you to VLOG too! The more likes your VLOG Gets the better spot/stage you get to play.

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February 8th - VLOG Wars! Your Chance to GET FREE TICKETS!

So we are really excited to post some Video Blogs from you guys. SO excited in-fact that we will be GIVING away a pair of tickets each month! Here is how it works:
1. Upload your vlog to the Joshua Fest Facebook page or email us a link to joshuafest@gmail.com. Your Vlog can be about anything Joshua Fest, news about the festival to your friends, band requests, event ideas, how you heard about it, how your getting there, how your band is wanting or practicing to play... ANYTHING flies!
2. Once its uploaded, the video that gets THE MOST \"likes\" by Feb 29 will get a pair of tickets! The earlier you post the vlog...the more time your video has a chance to get the most \"likes\".
3.The winners video for this month will be posted at www.joshuafest.com the entire next month until we have a new winner. If you have friends you know that are having a hard time coming up with $ for tickets, you might want to share this with them...its a good opportunity to help spread the word and have a chance to win Free Tickets! Now GO!GO!GO! PS. If your a band and get in for free..there are special incentives for you to VLOG too! The more likes your VLOG Gets the better spot/stage you get to play.

January 17th - More Artists Added, Schedule, and Rumors.

First things first. What a amazing year this is going to be! We\'ve added even more great artists to the lineup. Like the Joshua Fest favorite, The Classic Crime, and the lead singer from The Classic Crime and his wife\'s new acoustic adventure to pay for baby diapers, Vocal Few! We\'ve also added Air 1 top ten artist \"Esterlyn\"! Its so amazing what kind of year this is gonna be!
We also made the schedule live today. Its incomplete at the moment, but its got the headliners up so you can make your plans accordingly. Remember that there is no Daily passes this year. Your ticket gets you in for ALL Three days!
And finally, there was rumors of Joshua Fest selling out. These came from a special Five Iron Frenzy kickstarter package that included Joshua Fest VIP Passes. The KICKSTARTER VIP Passes sold out within a few hours of them becoming available! But rest assured, Joshua Fest is NOT Sold out. The VIP Passes are pretty close, but the festival in general has plenty of room for everyone!

January 4th - Luis Palau Sacramento Festival, Joshua Fest VLOG Wars, and more.

Real quick we want to share an event that we love and support coming to Sacramento. Its the Luis Palau Sacramento Festival coming to the Cal Expo on June 15th & 16th, 2012. Its completely free and will change this city. So get involved. On a seperate note: the Joshua Fest ticket page was updated with a \"Camping Upgrade\" pass that allows you to purchase your Commuter tickets (commuter tickets do-not include camping) and then later upgrade to your camping pass if you decide to experience the festival as a whole. This pass must be purchased with EACH ticket that plans on camping.

And last- we would like to start posting VLOGS. These are Video Blogs about information surrounding the festival. But here\'s the hold up. The kids that run Joshua Fest are kinda not the greatest to look at. So we are asking you, our beautiful fans to record a blurb about ANYTHING Joshua Fest! Show us your luggage, your swag that you bought and had signed at Joshua Fest in 2007, what bands you are excited about, how God has touched you through the Fest....Anything! VLOG it and email the link (Youtube, Vimeo, etc.) to us at joshuafest@gmail.com. If its fun, catchy, quick and creative...we might just add it to the site. If we pick your VLOG to post then we will meet up with you at the festival and hook you up with a FREE JF2012 Festival T-Shirt! Please don\'t let us down!

December 31st - Happy New Year! Price Increase Tonight! Indie Artist Application! And Another Band! WHEW!!!

Just a reminder that most AFFORDABLE JF2012 rates are about to increase tonight. Our ticketing service (Itickets.com) is on East Coast Time. So you need to get them before 9:00 PM Pacific Time. Also, You or your band can officially apply to play at Joshua Fest 2012! But hurry! Space is VERY LIMITED! If you\'ve already been approved as a indie band then PLEASE fill this out ASAP! To get to the application click on \"Get Involved\" and then you\'ll find a link under the \"Get On Stage\" section. Alternatively, you can Click Here. And just in case you missed our announcement on Facebook...we added one of our FAVORITE bands! Everyday Sunday! Love you guys! Have a safe and amazing NEW YEAR!

December 12th - More Headliners Announced

A lot of people ask me \"How did Joshua Fest get started?\" While, the story is usually told with Aaron & Chris being childhood friends who later met up and joined forces.....the real start of the story begins with a kid putting on a Ska show while still in High School.... a little band just starting off called The OC Supertones. It was right before their \"Adventures Of The OC Supertones\" album came out. Later that same year that 16 year old kid went to TOM Fest up in Washington. There he witnessed the start of Five Iron Frenzy. As fate would have it, both bands broke up when Joshua Fest was in a position to be able to consider either of them. So, you can imagine our excitement with being able to officially announce that Joshua Fest 2012 will host the come back of FIVE IRON FRENZY & The OC Supertones! People are already planning on flying in from all around the world to witness this event. Where are you coming in from?

December 5th - First Headliner Announcement

Hey everyone! Hoping you are enjoying the new website! We told you last week in our last news blog that our line-up was no-where near completion. In fact, we didnt announce any of our Headliners from Saturday or Sunday Night! Well, we thought we would unveil the first of many more band announcements.

For the first time EVER to grace the Joshua Fest stage is non other then.....RELIENT K!!!

We really hope you are getting excited and all we ask is you help us spead the word about the Festival. Be sure to tag us whenever you post on facebook about Joshua Fest. Not sure how? Its simple. Put the @ symbol in-front of the subject you want to tag. Sample: I want to go see @relientk at @joshuafest so bad!!! If you like both those subjects then they should tag for you! You would be amazed how much this helps! Especially if you are sharing with your Youth Pastor, Family, or Friends. Its a virtual street team! And its a lot greener then printing fliers and slapping them around town.

We still have many more announcements about artists playing in 2012. So be sure to keep checking back often...maybe you will get an early Christmas Present?

November 30th - More News Coming!!!!!!

You have seen whats to come, and please take note its a rough draft. Please keep checking back, our goal is to upload a section each week in the coming weeks, so that by the first of the year the whole thing is fine tuned and completely rolled out. Also in the VERY near future we will announce one of our big surprises. It may be the biggest JFest news to date...so check back often! Tell your friends. Spread the movement.

November 30th - JF2012 Artists Being Revealed

While our lineup is nowhere near completion, we did want to share a few artists that are going to be gracing our 2012 Festival. Some JF Staples like Run Kid Run and Project 86 are a no-brain for the Joshua Fest Family. And a favorite from last year, The City Harmonic! But we have also added several brand new to Joshua Fest artists like Children 18:3 and Write This Down! Please visit their social sites and give them a warm Joshua Fest welcome!

September 7th - Joshua Fest 2011 Was Amazing!

First of all...we know you have tons of options for Labor Day Weekend. So the fact that we are even on that list of "options" is special to us. But the fact the SO MANY OF YOU actually chose Joshua Fest to spend your Labor Day Weekend is really an honor. So for that we humbly say THANK YOU to everyone! The attendees were all so nice! The team of Volunteers were spectacular! The bands were all great to work with...and of course Jesus really showed up in a big way this weekend. And that's what everything was all about. We will take this momentum and not miss a beat running with it into our 2012 planning. We really want your feedback, and ask that you join our family on Facebook. The Joshua Fest team is on the Facebook page almost everyday, and we often will reply to questions on there. We love you guys! And really were blessed by everything at JF2011. See you Aug 31, Sept 1st, and Sept 2nd- Labor Day Weekend, in Plymouth, CA at Joshua Fest 2012!

September 1st - Stages Are Going Up and the Jfest Team is on-site!

We are working like dogs to make sure everything is up and running for you amazing folks! We already have our main-stages up and a folks are already trickling into the grounds. Be sure to grab some sunblock...its sunny. Drive safe and tell the locals you appreciate them letting us tear up their town for the weekend. See you all tomorrow, or tonight if your one of the ones brave enough to come early and be put to work! Love, The Jfest Team.

August 24th - Volunteer Positions Open.. Get Free Admission

Do you have a gift of service? If so, we are in need of additional volunteers in most service areas. By working just two shifts you can get admission with only the cost of a $10 volunteer shirt... for more info, go to our volunteer page, or email us with any questions. It's not too late, as we will be accepting applications through August 31st.

August 1st - Just ONE MONTH AWAY! DID YOU MISS THE 3N1 SPECIAL?

DID YOU MISS THE 3N1 SPECIAL? We get that its been a busy summer and you may of missed the amazing special that we ran last month. We really want to provide the opportunity for EVERYONE to experience Joshua Fest. So we are running another special. Right now you can get a full event ticket for a single day ticket price! Click here to get yours now! Please continue to spread the word by going to our Get Involved Link. There you can download and print flyers to throw around town. Also, you should check out all the amazing bands on our "Music Page". We've added tons over the past couple weeks. And we've even updated our "Schedule"....so get your highlighter and mark out the bands your not going to miss. We'll see you in a few weeks!

July 13th - SPECIAL PRICING ALERT: "3 in 1" General Admission Tickets, Limited Time Only

For the rest of this month, we will be offering our General Admission Full-Event ticket as a "3-in-1", which will allow entry for 3 guests with just one ticket. All other ticket prices will remain the same, but with such a great deal on this 3-in-1 ticket, you can't beat the price.

This unheard-of offer means that you can invite friends and family that maybe wouldn't have been able to come. Joshua Fest is more than just providing a fun experience for those of us who are already know Jesus, but also an opportunity to bring someone someone in need to Joshua Fest.

Hurry and get yours before time runs out. The last day to take advantage of this amazing deal is July 31st.

July 5th - Lineup is growing, more bands being added...

We've been going through our indie artist applications and we've added a few to the bill. Check out our music page to see what we've got so far (and we've only just begun!).

If you're a band that wants to get in on the action, we're still accepting applications. Go to our Artist Opportunities Page for more info and to get started.

May 9th - 2011 Joshua Fest Website... FINALLY!

Need we say more?

April 27th - New Promo Video Helps Get the Word Out

Our New Joshua Fest Promo Video has been making its rounds on Facebook. (Just in case you missed it click on the above link to check it out.) Also, feel free to copy that link and spread it around to all your friends. We really need your help in getting the word out! Our Posters, and Club Cards will be available very shortly too, so please check back to help with spreading those marketing tools around your town.

March 31st - Joshua Fest 2011 in Plymouth, CA - It's Official!

We really enjoyed the hospitality that the good folks at The Amador County Fairgrounds showed us, so we've decided to stick around for our 2011 festival. We are putting our dates back to our original Labor Day Weekend dates: September 2nd, 3rd, and 4th. And don't forget we're just 45 minutes from Sacramento.