Sea.Hear.Now Festival

The Sea.Hear.Now Festival (aka Sea Hear Now or SHN) is an annual music, art and ocean sustainability festival featuring a professional surfing competition held in Asbury Park, New Jersey.[2] Held on the beach and boardwalk in September, it is produced by, among others, rock photographer Danny Clinch, Tim Donnelly, HM Wollman, and C3 Presents’ Tim Sweetwood.[3]

Sea.Hear.Now Festival
StatusActive
GenreMusic festival
FrequencyAnnually
Location(s)1300 Ocean Avenue, Asbury Park, New Jersey, United States
Years active2018–present
InauguratedSeptember 29, 2018 (2018-09-29)
Websiteseahearnowfestival.com


Paramount Theatre at Asbury Park Convention Hall at nightfall with the Atlantic Ocean behind it.
Asbury Park South, a 1920 painting by Jazz Age artist Florine Stettheimer depicts the beach and boardwalk at Asbury Park where the festival is now held.[1]
Asbury Park beach

Digital pop culture magazine The Pop Break named Sea.Hear.Now the best new music festival of the year in 2018.[4][5] Billed as a celebration of live music, art, and surf culture, a portion of proceeds go to ocean-focused and environmental charities such as the Surfrider Foundation and Save the Bay.[3]

After the festival's operating hours, SHN is also known for late night local shows at a variety of live music venues in Asbury Park such as The Stone Pony, House of Independents, The Saint, Asbury Lanes, and Wonder Bar.

2023

The 2023 festival will be held on September 16-17, 2023. The 5th annual festival includes the following:

Saturday, September 16th, 2023

Sunday, September 17th, 2023

History

The festival has held annual shows since 2018, excluding 2020 in light of the pandemic.

2018
Blondie in 1977
Ben Harper

The inaugural festival was held in September 2018.[6]

Debbie Harry wore a cape during her performance with Blondie with the message, “Stop Fucking the Planet.”[7] The sustainability efforts at the 2018 festival featured reusable water bottle refilling stations, a “rock and recycle” program to help clean up waste/trash, and an opportunity to join the New Jersey chapter of the Surfrider Foundation.[8]

Pro surfers Quincy Davis, Sam Hammer, Balaram Stack, Pat Schmidt, and Mike Gleason competed at the festival's surf exhibition.[9]

The 2018 lineup included:[10]

2019
The Asbury Park boardwalk

The 2019 festival was held in September 2019.[3]

The lineup included:[11][12]

2020

The 2020 festival was postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[13]

2021
Cory Henry

The 2021 festival featured, among others:

Professional surfers included:

Art exhibition

Patti Smith, Eddie Vedder, Mike McCready and Jeff Ament of Pearl Jam, and others exhibited artwork inside the Transparent Gallery pop-up at the festival. Musicians and artists showing their artwork also included Scott Avett of the Avett Brothers, Billy Morrison of Billy Idol, Trevor Terndrup of Moon Taxi, Tim Showalter of Stand Up Oaks, Liz Cooper, Briston Maroney, Hirie, James Black and James Herdman of Jackson Pines, Danny Clinch, muralist Porkchop and others.

2022

The 2022 festival was held September 17-18, 2022.[14] Among the more notable artists were the following:

Saturday September 17th, 2022

Sunday, September 18th, 2022

2023

Saturday, Sept 16, 2023

  • The Killers

Sunday, Sept 17, 2023

  • Waiting on Mongo
  • Alexander Simone and Whodat?
Surf

The 2022 festival featured pro surfers including, among others, Cory Lopez, Sam Hammer, Cassidy McClain, and Eric Geiselman. The surfers competed in the "North Beach Rumble," a team surf contest.[16]

Late Night Shows

The 2022 Festival included four (4) "Late Night Shows" that took place after the festival's normal operating hours. Shows took place at Asbury Park local venues, such as The Stone Pony and The Wonder Bar, featuring The Backseat Lovers, Gods, Yawn, The Ocean Ave Stomp, and The Surfajettes.

References
  1. This 1920 painting depicts a summer crowd at the south end of Asbury Park, including a sign for a July 4, 1920, Asbury Park performance by the Italian operatic tenor Enrico Caruso. The artist is under a green parasol, several of her friends are also recognizable. Artist Marcel Duchamp (pink suit) walks with the actress Fania Marinoff. Carl Van Vechten stands on the elevated structure left (black suit), Avery Hopwood (white suit, right side) talks with a woman in a yellow dress, the Swiss painter Paul Thévanaz (red bathing suit) bends over a camera. Henry, McBride, Florine Stettheimer, The Museum of Modern Art 1946.
  2. Mital, Sachyn (23 October 2019). "Sea.Hear.Now Wildly Successful in Second Year, PopMatters".
  3. Cohen, Jonathan (June 3, 2021). "Rock Photographer Danny Clinch Talks Sea.Hear.Now Fest, Featuring Pearl Jam's First U.S. Show in Three Years".
  4. "Why Sea.Hear.Now 2018 Was The Best New Music Festival of the Year", The Pop Break, October 22, 2018. Accessed March 17, 2020.
  5. Oglesby, Amanda. "Asbury Park's Sea.Hear.Now festival a major success", Asbury Park Press', September 30, 2018. Accessed March 17, 2020.
  6. "The Inaugural Sea.Hear.Now Festival Rocked Asbury Park". 2 October 2018.
  7. "2018 Sea.Hear.Now Festival Recap". October 16, 2018.
  8. "Blondie Commands The Stage With A Late Afternoon Set At Sea.Hear.Now". 29 September 2018.
  9. "Paddle Out to Asbury Park, NJ for Sea.Hear.Now » Whalebone". Whalebone. September 19, 2019.
  10. "Bruce Springsteen Joins Social Distortion, Jack Johnson Welcomes Several Guests At Asbury's Sea.Hear.Now [Videos]". L4LM. October 1, 2018.
  11. Lustig, Jay (August 9, 2019). "Sea.Hear.Now festival announces 2019 schedule". NJArts.net.
  12. "Second Annual Sea.Hear.Now Festival Exemplifies Asbury Park's Flourishing Music Scene [Photos]". 24 September 2019.
  13. "Sea.Hear.Now Festival on Asbury Park beach postponed until 2021".
  14. "Sea Hear Now, Asbury Park's Giant Beach Bash, Ready to Rock Again". New Jersey Monthly. 2022-08-30. Retrieved 2022-09-08.
  15. "Boy George and Culture Club, Wet Leg added to big Sea Hear Now fest in Asbury Park". Asbury Park Press. Retrieved 2022-09-08.
  16. Amato, Jennifer (2022-08-19). "Stevie Nicks and Green Day Will Headline Sea.Hear.Now Festival Down the Shore". NJ Family. Retrieved 2022-09-08.
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