The longest running music festival in the country, June Jam, will kick off at G&R Campground on Saturday, June 21 with gates opening at 11 AM. This year, the charity concert will follow last year’s donation plan by giving smaller donations throughout the year instead of focusing on one big charity.
“Last year, we helped a single mom who had a two-year-old in Nemours with an auto-immune disease and a five-year-old being cared for by neighbors in Harrington,” Lynn Fowler said. “We helped by putting a deposit on a small apartment so that her son could move in with his mom. We provided a large quantity of school supplies to the Moose Riders School Drive for Kids, helping students who just couldn’t get all the help they needed.”
In addition to those donations, June Jam paid prescription bills for a local cancer victim who was the family breadwinner and gave bus cards to some individuals who needed to get to job interviews from a local shelter as well as grocery cards to a local organization for people with jobs who don’t want a “hand out but a hand up.”
“This feels great rather than writing a big check and wonder what it went for,” Fowler said. “This year, we would like to work with school music teachers and get them to choose a child who loves playing live music but needs help. We would like to provide a fund to the local music stores for kids to use for sheet music, guitar strings, instrument repairs or money toward a lesson or two. Our goal moving forward is to go backward, back to where we started – promoting live music.”
In addition, Fowler says they will donate to the memorial park by Levy Court, which honors veterans and military service veterans.
“We put their hearts in helping build that place, to maintain it, add to it or replace worn-out items. We will never forget them, we get to do what we do because of what they did and still do,” Fowler said.
Fowler was not stretching the truth when she said June Jam promotes live music. The event will kick off with the National Anthem played by John Wetherall at 11:55 AM. At Noon, AMP Kids – MSA will play from 12 Noon until 1:15 PM. Black Tooth Grin takes the stage at 1:15 PM.
“Five dudes from Dover, Delaware, playing the best rock music with the best takes on them,” is how the band’s Facebook describes them.
Nite Train takes the stage at 2:30 PM. According to their social media, Nite Train features classic country and classic rock hits. They are followed at 3:45 PM by Storm, out of Dover. They will feature high-energy music including rock, country and the blues. At 5 PM, PetRock out of Lincoln will feature 70s music.
“The 70s were the best of times. Music was made by musicians, singers could sing, and rock was best heard live,” their website reads. “Experience the ultimate age of album rock once more with PetRock’s live tribute show. Fleetwood Mac, the Eagles, Styx, Kansas, Doobie Brothers, Jackson Brown. This is rock the way it was meant to be and now, thanks to PetRock, the way it was meant to be heard.”
Next up is Trailer Park Casanovas at 6:15 PM, featuring their full-on dance party rock show. The festival will finish up with Big Toe taking the stage at 9 PM. They will bring their high-energy rock and roll mixed with crazy fun to June Jam.
Tickets are still available and can be purchased in person at Music & Arts, 3443 S. Dupont Highway in Camden or Puffster at 115 W. Loockerman Street in Dover. They are also available at the gate. Unfortunately, the online ticket window is not operational at this time. All attendees should plan to show a photo ID at the gate with their ticket for entry. Tickets are non-refundable and there is a $10 transfer fee to change the name on a ticket. For more information, call 302-272-3127 or email [email protected].
