Baltimore’s Grim Reefer Fest will be toking up some tunes again this spring as the music festival returns for its eighth year.
While the stoner holiday 4/20 falls on a Monday this year, Baltimore will be celebrating a couple days early with Grim Reefer Fest on Saturday, April 18, at Ottobar.
Doors will open at 2:30 p.m., with bands playing from 3:30 p.m. through midnight.
The event will feature “a full day of heavy music, dank vibes, and high spirits,” reads a news release.
Nine bands will make up this year’s musical lineup, including Black Tusk, Howling Giant, Total Maniac, Haze Mage, Shadow Witch, Cemetery Sex, Almost Honest, Seasick Gladiator, and Necromancer.
Haze Mage, the festival’s founders and one of this year’s performers, announced they are taking “an indefinite hiatus” after this year’s festival, “so all the more reason to come give these local heavy heroes a proper sendoff,” the news release reads.
Attendees can purchase tickets for $40 online now, or $50 at the door on the day of the show if they’re still available.
“We’re proud of what we’re accomplishing as a DIY grassroots festival,” the news release reads. “The genres and sounds for this year’s bands range are diverse, rocking, and full of some of our favorite underground bands on the scene today!”
