New jam fest planned for July 4th weekend in Maine

A new jam-band music festival will launch for the New England market next 4th of July weekend in Oxford ME near Lewiston. The Nateva Music & Camping Festival calls itself "New England's premier Jam-based music festival." It received approvals from the local community this week and is now set to go July 2-4 at the Oxford Fairgrounds. The venue is about 2-1/2 hours from Boston and less than an hour north of Portland.

So far, promoter Nateva Festivals of Newton MA has yet to announce any artists for the first festival, but the festival website says that a headliner will be named soon. The site says to expect "a sweet mix of Country, Folk, Reggae, Classic Rock and Indie Artists" as well as jam. We'll keep watching since it seems like there could be a good opening for an event like this in upper New England.