The Big Awesome Music Festival (BAMF) is on off-site event during San Diego Comic Con (SDCC) featuring nerdy artists, geeky comedians and podcasters at Ruocco Park behind the convention center on Friday July 10th through Sunday July 12th. They will have performances from nerdy music artists, geeky comedians, live podcasts, dance party, fandom burlesque, and more. It will be open from 10am to 10:30pm on Friday and Saturday and 10am to 5pm from Sunday. Music starts Friday and Saturday at 5pm.
The line up for Friday consists of rock band Ki, nerd rockers Kirby Krackle, geek musician Eben Brooks, comedy duo Paul and Storm, nerdy love song writer Allie Goertz, geek mixer DJ Galactic Ray, nerd parody group The Library Bards, and geek rockers Random Gibberish.
Saturday’s line up is nerdcore rapper Mega Ran, sister duo the Doubleclicks, singer-songwriter Molly Lewis, geek punk Nerf Herder, 8-bit mixer DJ DN3, and more by Kirby Krackle and DJ Galactic Ray.
For Sunday they have stand-up comedian Jen Seaman, geek flavored comedian Joseph Scrimshaw, writer Ed Galvez, podcasters Baker Street Babes who will record a live episode, Tim Mattonen, and Josh Chambers.
There will be a bounce house, beers from local breweries, food trucks, and gaming on site each day from 10m to 5pm. They will have their own artist alley, quidditch matches hosted by U.S. Quidditch on Sunday, a burlesque by the Pixie Stixx Burlesque, and a cosplay contest.
They are using Indiegogo as their ticket system. Get passes, t-shirt, autographed merch, and more there.
A great place for some music and comedy outside of SDCC in between events.