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2024 Is For Lovers

Posted by Loren on April 11, 2024

2024 Is For Lovers
photo by Loren Green

The Is For Lovers tour festival returns, with participants along the way to include All-American Rejects, Underoath, Thursday, Less Than Jake, Hot Mulligan, Hawthorne Heights, Yellowcard, Saosin, The Starting Line, State Champs, and Armor For Sleep, with seven separate dates and locations booked for the fest. Several additional artists will play at each stop (full listing below, date by date).

The festival originated in 2022.

Is For Lovers Festival dates and line-ups:

June 22 – Lake Tahoe Is For Lovers – Harveys (Lake Tahoe, CA): The All-American Rejects, Movements, Hawthorne Heights, The Starting Line, Finch, Armor For Sleep, The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Free Throw, with additional special guests to be announced soon.

July 13 – West Virginia Is For Lovers – GoMart Ballpark (Charleston, WV): Underoath, Hawthorne Heights, Thursday, Anberlin, Armor For Sleep, Emery, This Wild Life

July 20 – OBX Is For Lovers – Roanoke Island Festival Park (Manteo, NC): Motion City Soundtrack, Hawthorne Heights, Less Than Jake, Thursday, Armor For Sleep, This Wild Life, Battle Winner

July 27 – Pop’s Is For Lovers – Pop’s (Sauget, IL): Hawthorne Heights, Thursday, Anberlin, Armor For Sleep, Stick To Your Guns, This Wild Life

August 24 – Iowa Is For Lovers – Harrah’s Stir Cove (Council Bluffs, IA): Yellowcard, State Champs, Hawthorne Heights, Armor For Sleep, Emery, This Wild Life, Action/Adventure

August 31 – California Is For Lovers – The Torch at the L.A. Memorial Coliseum (Los Angeles, CA): Hawthorne Heights, Saosin, Finch, Anberlin, Bilmuri, Cartel, Armor For Sleep, Stick To Your Guns, This Wild Life, boycomma, New Aesthetic, plus more special guests

September 7 – Ohio Is For Lovers – Riverbend Music Center (Cincinnati, OH): Hawthorne Heights, Hot Mulligan, Silverstein, Senses Fail, The Devil Wears Prada, Anberlin, Arrows in Action, Emery, Snarls, Maura Weaver, Knuckle Puck, Real Friends, Movements, The Wonder Years, Turnover, For Your Health, Maura Weaver, Slow Joy, Leggy, Touchdown Jesus, Raging Nathans, Saturday’s At Your Place, Glassworld

Pictured: Less Than Jake

2024 Is For Lovers
photo by Loren Green

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