Beach Road Weekend Taking 2024 Off With Plans For New Mainland Location In 2025

The Beach Road Weekend music festival, previously held on Martha’s Vineyard, will not return in 2024. Organizers announced the news in a statement posted on the event’s website that included word they aim to bring back the event at a new home on Cape Cod in 2025.

The producers of Beach Road Weekend cited huge financial losses connected with bringing live music to the island as the reason for the move to the mainland. The festival made its debut in 2019 and returned in 2022 and 2023. Mumford & Sons, Bon Iver and Leon Bridges headlined Beach Road Weekend 2023 at Veterans Memorial Park on Martha’s Vineyard.

“It is with great disappointment and sadness that we announce that as a result of the extraordinary expense associated with producing touring shows and festivals on Martha’s Vineyard, the MV Concert Series and Beach Road Weekend will not be returning to the Island,” explained founder Adam Epstein. “This past Beach Road Weekend was fantastic. Seeing Mumford and Sons headline an event we had built from scratch over the span of five years was exhilarating. Yet, the festival had very clear and unrelenting challenges. For every dollar we saved via experience and efficiencies, our costs would increase by two dollars from other factors. We could never catch up. Perseverance and a drive toward efficiency weren’t enough. Hotel costs for our staff, cargo and ferry-related expenses, and extra costs associated with doing the festival on an island led to an extra $1.25 million in expense each year over what the same festival would have cost on the mainland.”

Beach Road Weekend co-producer Joe Kosin is optimistic about the festival’s future. “We see a pathway where Beach Road Weekend can be successful for audiences and as a vehicle for good, but not with the extra financial challenges presented by the Vineyard’s unique location,” Kosin stated. “So, the festival will take 2024 off for a re-design a location on Cape Cod to be announced at a later date. Same great festival – new location!”