Event information:
When: Sept. 16, 6 p.m. until 12 a.m. Rain date set for Sept. 17.
Where: North Dill St. (outside of Brothers Bar and Grill)
Tickets: $10 and can be purchased on the Chirpfest website or at the door.
Smoke canisters, LED lights, crowd surfing and the promise of “Bigger names. Bigger sounds.” are just a few things to be expected at the third ChirpFest on Sept. 16.
Chirp Fest is a live EDM music festival located between the Village Promenade buildings on North Dill street and Brothers Bar and Grill that was introduced in the fall of 2015.
The lineup for this year's ChirpFest includes DJP, I-Candy, Who.What.Where., SHXPS, Mathaius Young, Dream Chief, Borderlinze feat. Verr, Jimmy Coop, Dubknight and Jodyfree.
Although the organizers try to keep the acts local, people come from all over Indiana and the country to perform.
“Some are Muncie local, some are local to Indianapolis and some are just Indiana local. We have had talent fly from all over the country,” said Denver McQuaid, a junior telecommunications major who will help run this year's event.
The festival was founded by Chris Cammack and Darius Norwood, two Ball State 2016 alumni. McQuaid currently serves as the Media Director for ChirpFest and will even make an appearance as a DJ at this year's festival.
ChirpFest came about when Cammack and Norwood wanted to make a change when they noticed how businesses started leaving the area.
“We saw a lot of business starting to leave the Muncie community in the Village,” Cammack said. “We wanted to draw the traffic up in the Muncie community again.”
Besides bringing in more people to Muncie, the duo wanted to give something to Muncie that they could look forward to. They aimed to give Muncie a tradition that they can anticipate each semester.
In the future, the ChirpFest team hopes to take the EDM music festival to other locations and universities. One thing that will remain the same is keeping the biggest festival exclusive to Muncie.
“This one will always be the biggest show, no matter how much we grow and expand,” Cammack said. “We want to build up the Ball State and Muncie community.”
For this upcoming spring semester, students can expect a little something different out of ChirpFest. Not only will it be in a whole new location, but there is a promise of big headliners.
“We are going to go into the arena and do a full-out concert,” Cammack said. “The arena holds about 12,000 people. We’re kinda excited to not just do the outdoors festival in the fall but take it inside and experience a full-out concert that we haven’t had here in a long time.”
Holding it in the arena will allow roughly 7,000 more people attend and will ensure the spring elements won’t damper the show.
Cammack won’t be watching the music live but will instead watch videos of the event later for critiques. Throughout the past two festivals, he hasn’t seen a single performance. Rather, he’s opted to put all hands on deck and work where help is needed to ensure a perfectionist-standard festival.
“People will say I’m crazy, but I’m a perfectionist. I’m never satisfied,” Cammack said.
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