Progday.com
Title
ProgDay Home Page
Description
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, Japan 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 that was organized by Peter Renfro. For the first six years of its history, Peter more or less ran it alone. Though artistically successful, financial success was elusive and on the weekend of ProgDay 2000 Peter announced that it would be the last.
But before the 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 continue the show as a collective of fans. And so ProgDay was reborn as a grassroots collective which held it's first show on Labor Day weekend, 2001.