Vans Warped Tour

Not a country fan or a rock fan? The Philadelphia area still offers you an outlet to have fun this summer. Try out the annual Vans Warped Tour. This tour is not exclusive to the Philadelphia area. In fact, the tour makes forty-four stops across the United States between June and August! The tour starts June 24^th, 2011 in Dallas, Texas and wraps up on August 14^th, 2011 in Hillsboro, Oregon. It makes a stop here in Camden, New Jersey at the Susquehanna Bank Center on Thursday, July 21^st, 2011. All tickets are general admission and cost a total of $43.85 (taxes, fees, and all other pointless charges included.) You can purchase tickets here.

Offering a variety of alternative punk music, this year the tour hosts bands such as Gym Class Heros, The Devil Wears Prada, Against Me!, and over fifty more. An entire list of the bands can be found here. The featured band is August Burns Red, who is a local to our Philadelphia area, stemming from Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

A picture of the crowds from the 2006 Warped Tour in Camden, NJ.

In the past, the Vans Warped Tour has made headlines for its large crowds and overheated fans. In 2005, it was reported that 20,000 to 25,000 attended the concert. As temperatures hit 95 degrees the day the concert was in Camden, New Jersey, fifty-one people were hospitalized. Over two-hundred and twenty people required some medical attention. If you are planning to attend, make sure to dress lightly and keep hydrated!