Rock, Tattoo Fans Prepare For Inkcarceration With Rise Against, Bush, Black Label Society, A Day To Remember

Courtesy of AdrenalinePR – The Historic Ohio State Reformatory

Rise Against, Bush, Black Label Society, and A Day To Remember, are just a few of the bands slotted to play at the first ever Inkcarceration Music And Tattoo Festival, which is staging at a famous historical prison.

The event is being held July 13-15 at the Historic Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield, Ohio, where the “Shawkshank Redemption” was filmed.

Additional performers at the event include Our Lady Peace, Suicidal Tendencies, Fuel, Hatebreed, Sevendust, Corrosion Of Conformity, Alien Ant Farm and many others.

Tickets are on sale now and include VIP, RV and camping packages.

Courtesy of AdrenalinePR – The Historic Ohio State Reformatory

In addition to the two stages of music, the event is promising 70 booths featuring local and regional tattoo artists, more than 15 food trucks, the Hellzapoppin Rock n’ Roll Circus Sideshow, and a tour of the famous venue, which is estimated to take 1.5 hours.

“We are very excited to host the 2018 Inkcarceration Music and Tattoo Festival,” executive director of the Histororic Ohio State Reformatory said in a statement. “They plan to bring next level entertainment to our venue and we hope to have a long and prosperous relationship with them that helps benefit and secure the future of our organization, the Historic site itself, and the community.”

Obviously artists like B.B. King and Johnny Cash were famous for performing at prisons with inmates still incarcerated, but other venues have also held events at historical slammers. Old Idaho Penitentiary hosted Gem State Jam in 2010 and 2011 and Jail Break was held at the Old Jail in Charleston, S.C., in 2012.