Music festivals are likely crowding your spring and summer calendars already, but here's another save date: Untapped music and beer festival returns to Fort Worth's Panther Island Pavilion on May 9 with more than 250 brews and a mixed bag of performers.
Hip-hop trio De La Soul, indie pop personality Ariel Pink and metal heads The Sword are among the biggest names on the bill. Big Data, The Lone Bellow, Knox Hamilton, Greylag, Telegraph Canyon, and Doug Burr will also play.
May marks the third Untapped held in Fort Worth since the festival's founding in 2012, and organizers promise more beer than previous years — north of 70 breweries serving samples on-site. Corey Pond, festival organizer and owner of The Common Table, said in Tuesday's media release the growth the festival mirrors the growth of North Texas' beer scene.
"At the first edition of the festival in Fort Worth, we featured local breweries in Rahr and Martin House," he said. "By the end of 2015, DFW will be home to over 40 breweries, many of them residing in Fort Worth. Accordingly, this year in Fort Worth we will have more local and national breweries and beers than ever before."
The list of brewery participants will be available in a few weeks and the beer list will follow, Pond said. Festival food vendors are also TBA.
Untapped, which is now owned in part by The Dallas Morning News, announced last month inaugural festivals in Austin (April 18) and San Antonio (TBA), as well as return dates to Dallas (November 7) and Houston (September 12).
Tickets to Untapped Fort Worth are currently on sale in three tiers — concert only ($32 regularly, $25 pre-sale), concert + beer experience ($39, regularly, $32 pre-sale) and VIP ($65 regularly, $60 pre-sale). VIP tickets include early entry to the festival, and access to a side stage viewing area.
