Dance Gavin Dance Announces Swanfest 2020 In Sacramento

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Featuring the band Veil of Maya, Dance Gavin Dance’s Swanfest music festival debuts at City National Grove of Anaheim Outdoors on March 30 in Calif., marking the venue’s first outdoor music festival.

Following the post-hardcore band’s sold-out inaugural Swanfest outside the Grove of Anaheim in Southern California that sold out at 7,500 tickets, Sacramento-based Dance Gavin Dance is bringing the event back, this time in its home market at Papa Murphy’s Park April 25.

“With last year’s Swanfest selling out in Southern California, it only made sense for us to bring this year’s show to our hometown in Sacramento, CA.”, the band’s Will Swan said in a statement. “We are thrilled to have the chance to headline our biggest venue yet in the very city where it all began.”

The event is produced in part by Southern California mainstay Chain Reaction, talent agency 33 & West, Nederlander Concerts and others, with Pike, the band’s agent, previously telling Pollstar more would be ins tore

“There’s a lot of festivals happening in our space right now that we keep getting overlooked on,” the band’s booking agent, Pike, told Pollstar after the March 30 debut event. “Jokingly, we said if we’re going to keep getting overlooked, we’re going to just do it ourselves, and that’s what we did. … We’re looking to expand this into something we do year after year.”

Early Bird tickets and VIP packages are on sale now from DGDSwanfest.com. More info on line-up and VIP packages coming soon.

The venue, booked by Nederlander concerts, can be set up for various crowd sizes, with Nederlander Concerts CEO Alex Hodges telling Pollstar it can accommodate up to 20,000.

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Dance Gavin Dance have played live to over a quarter of a million fans over the past 12 months alone, according to the Swanfest announcement., with more than 1 billion streams across DSPs and 54.2 million views on YouTube.

Headline reports submitted to Pollstar include show the band isn’t only big on the West Coast, either, with 3,302 tickets sold to Vibes Event Center in San Antonio, which grossed $93,132, 2,700 tickets at Franklin Music Hall in Philadelphia (formerly the Electric Factory), which grossed $67,500 and two sellouts at House of Blues Chicago, with 2,500 tickets sold and a gross just north of $58,000.

“We know we can do X amount of tickets in the market, and instead of doing two nights at House of Blues or two or three at The Observatory, we decided to instead create our own situation,” Pike said of Swanfest. “If we’re going to go big, we might as well go as big as we can.”