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Headliner Announced For Fall Arts And Music Festival: On Sunday, October 2 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., lower Washington Street will host the Hoboken Fall Arts and Music Festival, located just five blocks from the Hoboken train station.
Between the beginning of Washington Street and Seventh Street, there will be a free festival. There will be two stages with live music and 300 artists, entrepreneurs, and food vendors.
Headliners have previously featured the likes of Joan Jett, Leon Russell, and the Smithereens. The Alejandro Escovedo Band will be the season’s headlining act.
Escovedo has played in a wide variety of bands, from punk to country to rock, such as The Nuns, Rank, File, and True Believers.
City officials claim that he is “A Mexican-American boy raised in California who has roots in Texas and is now fighting for immigrant rights on both continents with the help of an Italian rock band… In The Nuns, he was a rebel punk; in Rank and File, he was a non-Western cowpunk; in The True Believers, he was the leader of a guitar army; and in his solo work, he was a conductor of an orchestra.”
Also, “Bruce Springsteen, John Cale, Los Lobos, Peter Buck, Scott McCaughey, Los Texmaniacs, and Chuck Prophet are just a few of the artists he has worked with.
He was named “Artist of the Decade” by No Depression.”
Freedy Johnston, Cliff Westfall, Rio the Messenger, Frankie Morales and the Mambo of the Times Orchestra, The Gentlemen of Soul, The Hudson City Rats, Matt Madly, 3 Dollars, and Sir Synthesis are just some of the other musicians that will be performing.
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