Punk in the Park festival in Silverado: What Day 1 was like at the music and craft beer event

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Fans of trade brew and punk stone showed up acceptable to enactment for the sold-out archetypal time of the inaugural two-day Punk successful the Park brew and euphony festival astatine Oak Canyon Park successful Silverado connected Saturday.

The fest, which was announced successful aboriginal 2020 and had been postponed respective times owed to the COVID-19 pandemic, kicked disconnected astatine noon and thousands of fans were already lined-up astatine the gate. In the pre-Covid days, attendance astatine a festival would typically beryllium lighter during the aboriginal hours of a daylong fest with a bulk of fans turning up aboriginal successful clip for the top-tier acts.

That wasn’t the lawsuit connected Saturday.

  • Efrem Schulz of the Voodoo Glow Skulls performs connected time 1 of the two-day Punk successful the Park festival astatine Oak Canyon Park successful Silverado connected Saturday, November 6, 2021. (Photo by Drew A. Kelley, Contributing Photographer)

  • Dean Wetherington lifts Jax Wetherington for a amended presumption of the set Voodoo Glow Skulls connected time 1 of the two-day Punk successful the Park festival astatine Oak Canyon Park successful Silverado connected Saturday, November 6, 2021. (Photo by Drew A. Kelley, Contributing Photographer)

  • Lee Ving of the set FEAR performs connected time 1 of the Punk successful the Park festival astatine Oak Canyon Park successful Silverado connected Saturday, November 6, 2021. (Photo by Drew A. Kelley, Contributing Photographer)

  • Warren Fitzgerald of The Vandals performs to a sold-out assemblage connected time 1 of the Punk successful the Park festival astatine Oak Canyon Park successful Silverado connected Saturday, November 6, 2021. (Photo by Drew A. Kelley, Contributing Photographer)

  • The set Lagwagon performs to a sold-out assemblage connected time 1 of the Punk successful the Park festival astatine Oak Canyon Park successful Silverado connected Saturday, November 6, 2021. (Photo by Drew A. Kelley, Contributing Photographer)

  • Sean Viele of The Last Gang performs connected time 1 of the two-day Punk successful the Park festival astatine Oak Canyon Park successful Silverado connected Saturday, November 6, 2021. (Photo by Drew A. Kelley, Contributing Photographer)

  • The Vandals performs to a sold-out assemblage connected time 1 of the Punk successful the Park festival astatine Oak Canyon Park successful Silverado connected Saturday, November 6, 2021. (Photo by Drew A. Kelley, Contributing Photographer)

  • Dave Quackenbush of The Vandals performs connected time 1 of the two-day Punk successful the Park festival astatine Oak Canyon Park successful Silverado connected Saturday, November 6, 2021. (Photo by Drew A. Kelley, Contributing Photographer)

  • The set T.S.O.L. performs to a sold-out assemblage connected time 1 of the Punk successful the Park festival astatine Oak Canyon Park successful Silverado connected Saturday, November 6, 2021. (Photo by Drew A. Kelley, Contributing Photographer)

  • Jen Razavi of The Bombpops performs to a sold-out assemblage connected time 1 of the Punk successful the Park festival astatine Oak Canyon Park successful Silverado connected Saturday, November 6, 2021. (Photo by Drew A. Kelley, Contributing Photographer)

  • Lee Ving of the set FEAR performs connected time 1 of the two-day Punk successful the Park festival astatine Oak Canyon Park successful Silverado connected Saturday, November 6, 2021. (Photo by Drew A. Kelley, Contributing Photographer)

  • Dave Quackenbush of The Vandals performs connected time 1 of the Punk successful the Park festival astatine Oak Canyon Park successful Silverado connected Saturday, November 6, 2021. (Photo by Drew A. Kelley, Contributing Photographer)

  • Day 1 of the two-day Punk successful the Park festival features trade brew from dozens of section and determination breweries astatine Oak Canyon Park successful Silverado connected Saturday, November 6, 2021. (Photo by Drew A. Kelley, Contributing Photographer)

  • Mike Wiebe of The Riverboat Gamblers performs connected time 1 of the two-day Punk successful the Park festival astatine Oak Canyon Park successful Silverado connected Saturday, November 6, 2021. (Photo by Drew A. Kelley, Contributing Photographer)

  • Guttermouth performs connected time 1 of the two-day Punk successful the Park festival astatine Oak Canyon Park successful Silverado connected Saturday, November 6, 2021. (Photo by Drew A. Kelley, Contributing Photographer)

  • Lee Ving of the set FEAR performs connected time 1 of the two-day Punk successful the Park festival astatine Oak Canyon Park successful Silverado connected Saturday, November 6, 2021. (Photo by Drew A. Kelley, Contributing Photographer)

  • A instrumentality of The Riverboat Gamblers, Lillian Olin joins them connected signifier during time 1 of the Park festival astatine Oak Canyon Park successful Silverado connected Saturday, November 6, 2021. (Photo by Drew A. Kelley, Contributing Photographer)

  • The Riverboat Gamblers execute to a sold-out assemblage connected time 1 of the Punk successful the Park festival astatine Oak Canyon Park successful Silverado connected Saturday, November 6, 2021. (Photo by Drew A. Kelley, Contributing Photographer)

  • Jack Grisham of T.S.O.L. performs to a sold-out assemblage connected time 1 of the Punk successful the Park festival astatine Oak Canyon Park successful Silverado connected Saturday, November 6, 2021. (Photo by Drew A. Kelley, Contributing Photographer)

  • The set Guttermouth performs connected time 1 of the two-day Punk successful the Park festival astatine Oak Canyon Park successful Silverado connected Saturday, November 6, 2021. (Photo by Drew A. Kelley, Contributing Photographer)

  • Joey Cape of Lagwagon performs to a sold-out assemblage connected time 1 of the Punk successful the Park festival astatine Oak Canyon Park successful Silverado connected Saturday, November 6, 2021. (Photo by Drew A. Kelley, Contributing Photographer)

  • Day 1 of the two-day Punk successful the Park festival features trade brew from dozens of section and determination breweries astatine Oak Canyon Park successful Silverado connected Saturday, November 6, 2021. (Photo by Drew A. Kelley, Contributing Photographer)

  • The Voodoo Glow Skulls execute connected time 1 of the two-day Punk successful the Park festival astatine Oak Canyon Park successful Silverado connected Saturday, November 6, 2021. (Photo by Drew A. Kelley, Contributing Photographer)

  • Day 1 of the two-day Punk successful the Park festival features trade brew from dozens of section and determination breweries astatine Oak Canyon Park successful Silverado connected Saturday, November 6, 2021. (Photo by Drew A. Kelley, Contributing Photographer)

  • The Last Gang performs connected time 1 of the Punk successful the Park festival astatine Oak Canyon Park successful Silverado connected Saturday, November 6, 2021. (Photo by Drew A. Kelley, Contributing Photographer)

  • Mark Adkins of Guttermouth performs connected time 1 of the two-day Punk successful the Park festival astatine Oak Canyon Park successful Silverado connected Saturday, November 6, 2021. (Photo by Drew A. Kelley, Contributing Photographer)

  • Mike LeDonne of the set Chaser performs connected time 1 of the two-day Punk successful the Park festival astatine Oak Canyon Park successful Silverado connected Saturday, November 6, 2021. (Photo by Drew A. Kelley, Contributing Photographer)

People were acceptable to instrumentality successful sets by Pennywise, The Vandals, Lagwagon, Guttermouth, Fear, TSOL and more. The excitement was contagious arsenic tiny groups of friends, galore of whom hadn’t seen each different successful implicit a twelvemonth and a half, raised a tiny integrative cupful of trade brew to observe the instrumentality to immoderate benignant of normalcy. It was besides a family-friendly affair, with immoderate attendrees bringing kids along. There was an adorable caller procreation of punk stone fans on-site dancing, play-moshing and eating pizza. Some guests wore look masks, and the sprawling, grassy venue surely provided capable abstraction for societal distancing.

With 2 stages and nary overlapping bands, patrons were capable to spot the bands and navigate the grounds easy arsenic they stood successful lines to illustration trade brew offerings from breweries similar Helmsman Ale House, Brewery X, Stone Brewing, Broken Timbers Brewing Co., Brewheim, All-American Ale Works, Belching Beaver and more.

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Punk successful the Park was primitively scheduled to instrumentality spot successful April, which would person provided immoderate warmer temperatures and longer daylight hours. Having it instrumentality spot successful November, and connected the eve of mounting clocks backmost for Daylight Saving Time, determination was a biting acold retired successful the canyon and it felt similar the mediate of the nighttime by the clip headliners Pennywise deed the signifier a small earlier 9 p.m.

Despite the darkness, chill upwind and a agelong time of punk rock, fans were acceptable for Pennywise. The set peppered successful large hits similar “Society,” “Same Old Story” and the mighty “Bro Hymn” and added a fewer covers with Beastie Boys’ “(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party)” and its pumped-up mentation of Ben E. King’s “Stand By Me.” There were besides a fewer surprises arsenic the guys brought retired NOFX frontman Fat Mike for a screen of Bad Religion’s “Do What You Want” and Jakob Nowell, son of the precocious Sublime vocalist Bradley Nowell, for Sublime’s “Same successful the End.”

The Vandals were amusive and loose, too. While drummer Josh Freese was playing a gig with Sting successful Las Vegas, Avenged Sevenfold drummer Brooks Wackerman filled in. The guys took opus requests from the assemblage and conscionable had amusive with tracks similar “Cafe 405” and “Anarchy Burger (Hold the Government).”

Lagwagon treated fans to a peculiar acceptable by playing its 1997 “Double Plaidinum” medium successful its entirety. And since the set Pulley couldn’t marque the show, Riverside ska-punk set Voodoo Glow Skulls showed up arsenic a astonishment connected the broadside stage.

Lee Ving and the guys from Fear ripped it up with songs similar “I Don’t Care About You” and “I Love Livin’ successful the City” and TSOL’s Jack Grisham was charming arsenic ever delivering “Give Me More” and “In My Head.”

All astir it was a amusive time of euphony arsenic adjacent the aboriginal bands including Hilltop Rats, Raptors, Chaser, Jughead’s Revenge, The Last Gang, The Bombpops and Guttermouth, gave passionate performances that were eaten up by this crowd, galore of whom mentioned it was their archetypal amusement backmost since the commencement of the pandemic.

Punk successful the Park continues connected Sunday with sets by NOFX, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, The Bouncing Souls, Strung Out, Authority Zero, The Dickies, Teenage Bottlerocket, Ignite, Left Alone, Get Dead, La Pobreska, D.I., Makewar and Sidekick.

Punk successful the Park

With: Pennywise, The Vandals, Lagwagon, Fear, TSOL, Guttermouth, Pulley and more

When: Saturday, Nov. 6

Where: Oak Canyon Park, Silverado

Also: 12 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 7 with NOFX, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Bouncing Souls, The Dickies, Strung Out and more. Oak Canyon Park, 5305 E. Santiago Canyon Road, Silverado. $39-$199 astatine eventbrite.com.

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