What happens at Rosfest stays at Rosfest. An idiom you'll find variations of at whatever ongoing festival you'll attend, and as far as Rosfest is concerned it's the Friday night after party at the host hotel which is at the core of the Rosfest version.

We're happy to announce that US band Shadow Gallery have been signed for the 2013 edition of the Rites of Spring Festival.

We're sincerely happy to announce that Swedish band Pain of Salvation have been signed for the 2013 edition of the Rites of Spring Festival....

Due to the havoc wreaked by tropical storm Sandy in the US, we have decided to postpone the sale of the ROSfest Gold Seat tickets for one week, from November 3rd 2012 to November 10th 2012. Many people have had their lives turned upside down by this catastrophe. 

We're pleased to announce that legendary Swedish band The Flower Kings have been signed for the 2013 edition of the Rites Of Spring festival. When progressive rock rose from the ashes in the 1990's, the so-called Scandinavian wave of progressive rock bands were among the leading bands that reinvigorated the genre. Not that progressive rock ever died, but for almost 20 years it was a style that wasn't covered by the music press and for music fans the result was that this kind of music disappeared. But in the second half of the 1990's the internet started to grow and progressive rock a...

 We're excited to announce that US act Jolly and Polish band Riverside have been signed for the 2013 edition of the Rites of Spring Festival. Opening the festivities on Saturday morning, US band Jolly will serve their particular brand of subtly eclectic art rock to the RoSfest faithful. They are a band whose stylistic variations and combinations are plentiful and varied, bordering on progressive rock just as much as progressive metal. And towards the very end of Saturday, Polish band Riverside will finally be able to provide their brand of metal-tinged progressive rock to our au...

We're happy to announce that Japanese artist Asturias have been signed for the 2013 edition of the Rites of Spring Festival. When Asturias hits the stage at ROSfest in 2013, 25 years will have gone by since Yoh Ohyama released the first album sporting the Asturias moniker. At first a solo project exploring progressive rock in a manner similar to Mike Oldfield, later reinvented as an acoustic band project closer to chamber rock in expression. But during the last few years Asturias reinvented his creative energy yet again.  ...

We're excited to announce that US band MoeTar have been signed for the 2013 edition of the Rites of Spring Festival. MoeTar is named after vocalist Moorea Dickason and bassist Tarik Ragab, the former supplying an essential ingredient of the band's sound with her vocal skills and the latter the main songwriter. Matthew Charles Heulitt (guitars), Matt Lebofsky (keyboards) and Dave Flores (drums) supplement the duo with their instrumental skills and versatile musical backgrounds. ...

We're pleased to announce that US trio Dream The Electric Sleep have been signed for the 2013 edition of the Rites of Spring Festival. DTES was formed back in 2009, with Matt Page (vocals, guitars and keyboards), Joey Waters (drums, vocals) and Chris Tackett (bass) as the studio line-up. 

We're pleased to announce that Canadian band Bolus have been signed for the 2013 edition of the Rites of Spring festival. Bolus is based out of Toronto, and was formed back in 2003 when the founding members attended secondary school. They started developing material straight away, and performed live already in the fall of 2003. The following year they had a full album's worth of songs ready, and in 2005 they released their debut album "Watch Your Step". ...