Oceanfront April News Today

In December, the City Council agreed to provide Audacy with $750,000 and in-kind city services for its spring festival in exchange for national advertising that will promote travel and tourism in Virginia Beach.

VIRGINIA BEACH — Audacy, a national radio company with a local presence that will produce a large-scale festival for Virginia Beach at the end of April, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection as a result of shrinking advertising dollars. “The perfect storm of sustained macroeconomic challenges over the past four years facing the traditional advertising market has led to a sharp ...

"Something Indie Water" is a new, free music festival coming to the Oceanfront April 28 to 30, the same weekend Something in the Water takes place.

Pharrell Williams’ Something in the Water festival will be bigger than the inaugural one in 2019 with two “very large” stages, according to the organizers.

Virginia Beach is preparing for a larger crowd than when the festival was first held in 2019. To get people to the Oceanfront, the city will offer shuttle bus services from Veterans United Home Loans Amphitheater and will promote rideshare options.

Pharrell Williams’ Something in the Water festival will be bigger than the inaugural one in 2019 with two “very large” stages, according to the organizers.

Applications for local vendors and volunteers recently became available on the festival’s website.