Welcome To ProgDay!

ProgDay is an annual outdoor festival of progressive music featuring artists from all over the world. Some bands have come from as close as Raleigh, North Carolina, and others from as far away as Sweden, Italy, Venezuela and Indonesia. ProgDay has been held every year since it's birth in 1995, making it the longest running progressive rock event in the world.

The first ProgDay was a single day concert organized by Peter Renfro. For the first six years of ProgDay's history, Peter more or less ran it alone. Though artistically successful, financial success was elusive and on the weekend of ProgDay 2000 it was announced that ProgDay
would be no more.

But before that weekend was over an unprecedented thing occurred. By the end of Sunday afternoon a group of people in attendance who had a deep affection for the event decided to take over production of the festival themselves. So ProgDay was reborn as a grassroots collective of fans which held it's first concert on Labor Day weekend, 2001.

Since then the organization has been run by consensus, with a band committee responsible for choosing the artists, a budget committee to oversee the financials, and a promotions committee to get the word out. All of these people are volunteers who labor for the love of the music. They receive no compensation, yet every year they put in a tremendous amount of work to make ProgDay the best it can be.

Over the years ProgDay has hosted many memorable and important performances. ProgDay is responsible for the first American appearances of many bands from progressive rock's "golden era" including Kraan (Germany), Samla Mammas Manna (Sweden), Arti é Mestieri (Italy), Ain Soph (Japan), Trettioariga Kriget (Sweden) and Tempano (Venezuela), as well as US debuts by more recent bands like Beardfish (Sweden), Uzva (Finland), Naikaku (Japan), Accordo Dei Contrari (Italy), Panzerballett (Germany), Qoph (Sweden), Apocalypse (Brazil), NeBeLNeST (France), Amarok (Spain), Cabezas De Cera (Mexico), and many others. ProgDay presented the first major US appearance of the Muffins after their reunion in 1998. It was only their second time in the US when Pain Of Salvation and The Spacious Mind played ProgDay. ProgDay also has a tradition of showcasing outstanding newer and up-and-coming bands like Panzerballett (Germany), Consider The Source (US), Fibonacci Sequence (US), The Tea Club (US) and Mahogany Frog (Canada).

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The folks at ProgDay have once again worked hard to bring you the best in progressive music. We hope that you'll join us this year for another great weekend of music, friendship and fun.

ProgDays Past

Click on the links below to get more information on past ProgDays:

• ProgDay Overview 1995-2000

• ProgDay Overview 2001-2005

• ProgDay Overview 2006-2010

• ProgDay Overview 2011-2012

Band Statistics

• Acts that have performed at ProgDay as of 2012: 135
• First performance at a North American prog festival: 105 (77%)
• First performance in the United States due to ProgDay: 31 (23%)
• Number of countries represented at ProgDay: 18

Countries And Bands At A Glance

• BRAZIL: Apocalypse
• CANADA: Half Past Four, Karcius, Mahogany Frog,
The Rebel Wheel with Guy LeBlanc
• DENMARK: Secret Oyster
• FINLAND: Höyry-Kone, Uzva
• FRANCE: Clearlight, NeBeLNeST, Mörglbl, Nemo
• GERMANY: Kraan, Panzerballett
• INDONESIA: Discus
• ITALY: Accordo Dei Contrari, A Piedi Nudi, Arti é Mestieri, Consorzioacquapotabile, Deus Ex Machina, Finisterre,
Mary Newsletter, La Maschera Di Cera
• JAPAN: Ain Soph, Ars Nova, Naikaku, Providence, Qui
• MEXICO: Cabezas de Cera, Cast
• NETHERLANDS: Focus
• PANAMA: Equinox
• SICILY: Malibran
• SPAIN: Amarok, Galadriel, Psicotropia
• SWEDEN: Beardfish, The Flower Kings, Freak Kitchen,
Pär Lindh Project, Mats/Morgan Band, Pain Of Salvation, Qoph,
Samla Mammas Manna, The Spacious Mind, Trettioåriga Kriget
• UK: Flash, Landmarq, Ozric Tentacles, Thieves Kitchen, Wishbone Ash
• UNITED STATES: 3RDegree, Abigail's Ghost, Advent, After The Fall, Alaska, Avant Garden, Azigza, Birdsongs Of The Mesozoic,
Boud Deun, Brave, Bubblemath, Canvas Solaris, Cheer-Accident,
Barry Cleveland's Hologramatron, Consider The Source, Crucible,
Dark Aether Project, Deluge Grander, Djam Karet, Discipline, Doctor Nerve, Dreadnaught, Echolyn, Edensong, Ephemeral Sun, Far Corner, Farquhar, Fibonacci Sequence, Forever Einstein, French TV, Frogg Café,
Glass Hammer, Hamster Theatre, Hands, Happy The Man, Helmet Of Gnats, Holding Pattern, House Of Usher, Illuvatar, IZZ, Kopecky, Mike Keneally Band, Krakatoa, Brett Kull, Bon Lozaga, Mahavishnu Project, Mars Hollow, Mastermind, Mirthrandir, The Muffins, Oblivion Sun, Ozone Quartet (aka Cloud Nine), Matthew Parmenter, Persephone's Dream, Glenn Phillips Band, Pinnacle, Polydactyl, David Ragsdale, Jimmy Robinson, Salem Hill, Scale The Summit, Skeletonbreath, Smokin' Granny, Shadow Circus, Sigmund Snopek III, Soundscape, Squonk Opera, Spiraling, The Tea Club, Ten Jinn, Three, Tiles, Timothy Pure, Thinking Plague, Tristan Park, The Underground Railroad, VonFrickle, Volaré, Woodenhead, Yeti, Yokeshire, Michelle Young, Zevious
• VENEZUELA: Tempano