What: ChirpFest
When: April 8-9 from 7 p.m. to 2 a.m.
Where: North Dill Street in the Village
Lineup:
- Milk N Cooks
- Amiirah
- Nyzzy Nyce
- La'Saye Hommes
- Jimmy Coop
- Borderlinze
- Jordn Moody
- BlottBoy
- Ejazz
- DJ GNO
- Ejion
- DJ JEFF G
- Denver McQuaid
- Kayla Noel
Last September, ChirpFest closed down Dill Street for one night of local EDM entertainment. After a year of planning and constant work, more than 3,000 people attended.
ChirpFest is again closing down Dill Street, but will feature bigger acts and more production, featuring four large LED screens.
From 7 p.m. April 8 until 2 a.m. April 9, ChirpFest will feature 13 acts performing on the street in the Village, four more than September’s show.
Though VIP tickets are already sold out, general admission tickets will still be available online and at the event, and cost $10.
Acts are coming in from as far away as Los Angeles and Texas. But organizer Chris Cammack said there is still an effort to make sure there is a local connection, such as DJ GNO.
The festival is still organized by the two Ball State students who originally came up with it, Darius Norwood and Cammack, both of whom will be graduating in May.
Though they will no longer be students, they hope ChirpFest will continue with the team of eight students who have been helping organize the event, which Norwood describes as “a family that will be there to help you out.”
They have a balanced approach to the duties of organizing a festival.
“[Our management approach] is based off of our strengths,” Norwood said. “[Cammack] does great with execution. I’m more of the strategist, figuring out how we get to where we need to go. And I just create the guidelines, he’ll learn them and he just executes them.”
ChirpFest is determined to give back to the community. ChirpFest was originally conceived by Cammack and Norwood as a way to connect the Muncie and Ball State communities, bridging the “Town and Gown” divide.
Cammack said the first ChirpFest brought business to local restaurants. This year, in partnership with Muncie Mayor Dennis Taylor, ChirpFest is hosting a pre-concert event for children with the Unity Center.
ChirpFest is also going on tour this year. In an effort to share the experience of ChirpFest with others, the festival will be thrown at Purdue, titled “ChirpFest presented as BoilerFest,” and at Indiana University as “ChirpFest presented as HoosierFest.”
Though the festival will be traveling, Cammack said students should be assured Ball State will always be the home of ChirpFest.
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