NEARfest, the Glossary
The North East Art Rock Festival, or NEARfest for short, was a multi-day event celebrating the resurgence of progressive and eclectic music in the United States and around the world.[1]
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123 relations: After Crying, Alamaailman Vasarat, Allan Holdsworth, Anekdoten, Ange (band), Annie Haslam, Aranis, Asia (band), Astra (band), Änglagård, Banco del Mutuo Soccorso, Beardfish (band), Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Billy Sheehan, Birdsongs of the Mesozoic, Bob Drake (musician), Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk, California Guitar Trio, Camel (band), Caravan (band), Deus ex Machina (band), DFA (Italian rock band), Discipline (band), Djam Karet, Dysrhythmia (band), Echolyn, Eddie Jobson, Eloy (band), Enchant (band), Fish (singer), FM (Canadian band), Forgas Band Phenomena, Genesis (band), Gerard (band), Glass Hammer, Gong (band), Guapo (band), Happy the Man, Hatfield and the North, Hawkwind, Heldon, Hidria Spacefolk, Ice Age (band), Il Balletto di Bronzo, Indukti, Iona (band), IQ (band), IZZ, Kōenji Hyakkei, Keith Emerson, ... Expand index (73 more) »
- Lehigh University
- Music festivals in Pennsylvania
- Progressive rock
After Crying
After Crying is a Hungarian musical ensemble established in 1986 that composes and performs contemporary classical music or symphonic rock.
Alamaailman Vasarat
Alamaailman Vasarat (translated: "The Hammers of the Underworld") is an avant-garde Finnish musical group formed in 1997.
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Allan Holdsworth
Allan Holdsworth (6 August 1946 – 15 April 2017) was a British jazz fusion and progressive rock guitarist, violinist and composer.
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Anekdoten
Anekdoten is a Swedish progressive rock band, composed of guitarist/vocalist Nicklas Barker, cellist/keyboardist Anna Sofi Dahlberg, bassist/vocalist Jan Erik Liljeström and drummer Peter Nordins.
Ange (band)
Ange is a French progressive rock band formed in September 1969 by the Décamps brothers, Francis (keyboards) and Christian (vocals, accordion, acoustic guitar and keyboards).
Annie Haslam
Annie Haslam (born 8 June 1947) is an English vocalist, songwriter and painter.
Aranis
Aranis are a Flemish acoustic avant-rock, experimental and neo-classical chamber music group led by composer and contrabass player Joris Vanvinckenroye.
Asia (band)
Asia are an English rock supergroup formed in London in 1981.
Astra (band)
Astra is a rock band from San Diego, California.
Änglagård
Änglagård is a Swedish progressive rock band, with influences including King Crimson, Genesis, Gentle Giant, Trettioåriga Kriget, Schicke Führs Fröhling, and Van der Graaf Generator.
Banco del Mutuo Soccorso
Banco del Mutuo Soccorso (English: Bank of Mutual Relief) is an Italian rock band.
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Beardfish (band)
Beardfish are a Swedish progressive rock band formed in 2001.
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Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Bethlehem is a city in Northampton and Lehigh Counties in the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania, United States.
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Billy Sheehan
William Sheehan (born March 19, 1953) is an American musician known for playing bass guitar with acts such as Talas, Steve Vai, David Lee Roth, Mr. Big, Niacin, and The Winery Dogs.
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Birdsongs of the Mesozoic
Birdsongs of the Mesozoic is an American musical group founded in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, in 1980.
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Bob Drake (musician)
Bob Drake (born December 6, 1957) is an American multi-instrumentalist musician and recording engineer.
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Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk
"Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk" is the eleventh episode of the third season of the American animated television series The Simpsons.
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California Guitar Trio
California Guitar Trio (CGT) is an acoustic–electric band formed in Los Angeles in 1991 with the aim of expanding the potential of acoustic guitars played in the New standard tuning (NST) introduced by Robert Fripp on Guitar Craft courses.
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Camel (band)
Camel are an English progressive rock band formed in Guildford, Surrey, in 1971.
Caravan (band)
Caravan are an English rock band from the Canterbury area, founded by former Wilde Flowers members David Sinclair, Richard Sinclair, Pye Hastings, and Richard Coughlan in 1968.
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Deus ex Machina (band)
Deus Ex Machina (band) is an Italian progressive rock group.
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DFA (Italian rock band)
DFA (short for Duty Free Area) is an Italian progressive rock band from Verona, Italy.
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Discipline (band)
Discipline is an American progressive rock band formed in 1987 by singer-songwriter Matthew Parmenter.
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Djam Karet
Djam Karet is an instrumental progressive rock band based in Topanga, California.
Dysrhythmia (band)
Dysrhythmia is an American instrumental progressive metal band formed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, in 1998.
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Echolyn
Echolyn is an American progressive rock band based in eastern Pennsylvania.
Eddie Jobson
Edwin Jobson (born 28 April 1955) is an English musician noted for his use of synthesizers.
Eloy (band)
Eloy is a German rock band.
Enchant (band)
Enchant were an American neo-prog band, formed in 1989.
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Fish (singer)
Derek William Dick (born 25 April 1958), better known by his stage name Fish, is a Scottish singer, songwriter and occasional actor.
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FM (Canadian band)
FM is a Canadian progressive rock music group formed in 1976 in Toronto, by Cameron Hawkins and Jeff Plewman (renamed Nash the Slash).
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Forgas Band Phenomena
Forgas Band Phenomena is a French instrumental progressive rock and jazz fusion band.
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Genesis (band)
Genesis were an English rock band formed at Charterhouse School, Godalming, Surrey, in 1967.
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Gerard (band)
Gerard is a Japanese progressive rock band.
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Glass Hammer
Glass Hammer is an American progressive rock band from Chattanooga, Tennessee, created and led by Steve Babb and Fred Schendel.
Gong (band)
Gong are a psychedelic rock band that incorporates elements of jazz and space rock into their musical style.
Guapo (band)
Guapo is a British experimental rock/art rock band formed in the mid-1990s by drummer/percussionist Dave Smith and guitarist/vocalist Matt Thompson, though the band gained a wider audience with the contribution of multi-instrumentalist Daniel O'Sullivan.
Happy the Man
Happy the Man is an American progressive rock band formed in 1973 at Madison College.
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Hatfield and the North
Hatfield and the North were an experimental Canterbury scene rock band that lasted from October 1972 to June 1975, with some reunions thereafter.
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Hawkwind
Hawkwind are an English rock band known as one of the earliest space rock groups.
Heldon
Heldon was a French electronic rock band originally active between 1974 and 1978, and led by guitarist Richard Pinhas.
Hidria Spacefolk
Hidria Spacefolk is a Finnish progressive / psychedelic rock / space rock band.
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Ice Age (band)
Ice Age is a progressive band from New York City, USA.
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Il Balletto di Bronzo
Il Balletto di Bronzo (translation: "The Bronze Ballet") is an Italian progressive rock band from Naples.
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Indukti
Indukti is a progressive metal band from Poland, founded in 1999.
Iona (band)
Iona was a progressive Celtic Christian rock band from the United Kingdom.
IQ (band)
IQ are a British neo-prog band founded by Mike Holmes and Martin Orford in 1981 Band formed in 1981.
IZZ
IZZ is a New York-based progressive rock band.
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Kōenji Hyakkei
, also known as Kōenjihyakkei, is a Japanese Zeuhl band led by Tatsuya Yoshida (from the Japanese band Ruins), and is "his tribute to the 'Zeuhl' music" of French prog-rock band Magma.
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Keith Emerson
Keith Noel Emerson (2 November 194411 March 2016) was an English keyboardist, songwriter, composer and record producer.
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Kraan
Kraan is a German band based in Ulm and formed in 1970.
Larry Fast
Lawrence Roger Fast (born December 10, 1951) is an American synthesizer player and composer.
Le Orme
Le Orme (Italian: "The Footprints") is an Italian progressive rock band formed in 1966 in Marghera, a frazione of Venice.
Lehigh University
Lehigh University (LU) is a private research university in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania.
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Liquid Tension Experiment
Liquid Tension Experiment (LTE) is an American instrumental progressive metal supergroup founded by Mike Portnoy in 1997.
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Magenta (Welsh band)
Magenta are a Welsh progressive rock band formed in 1999 by ex-Cyan member Rob Reed.
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Magma (band)
Magma is a French progressive rock band founded in Paris in 1969 by self-taught drummer Christian Vander, who claimed as his inspiration a "vision of humanity's spiritual and ecological future" that profoundly disturbed him.
Marillion
Marillion are a British neo prog band, formed in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, in 1979.
Mark Wilkinson
Mark Wilkinson (born 3 October 1952) is an English illustrator.
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Mastermind (American band)
Mastermind is an American progressive rock band from New Jersey, formed by the brothers Bill Berends and Rich Berends in 1986.
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Metamorfosi are an Italian symphonic rock band from Rome.
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Michael Manring
Michael Manring (born June 27, 1960) is an American bass guitarist from the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Mike Keneally
Michael Joseph Keneally (born December 20, 1961) is an American session guitarist, keyboardist, vocalist and composer.
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Miriodor
Miriodor is a Canadian musical group in the genre of Rock in Opposition; the band combines jazz, progressive rock and chamber music into a powerful sound reminiscent of artists like Univers Zéro or Art Zoyd.
Moravian University
Moravian University is a private university in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
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Nathan Mahl
Nathan Mahl are a Canadian progressive rock band with jazz fusion elements formed in Ottawa, Ontario.
Nektar
Nektar (German for nectar) is an English progressive rock band formed in Hamburg, West Germany in 1969, by guitarist and lead vocalist Roye Albrighton, keyboardist Allan "Taff" Freeman, bassist Derek "Mo" Moore, and drummer Ron Howden.
New York City
New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.
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Nexus (Argentine band)
Nexus is a progressive rock band from Argentina.
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Nick Didkovsky
Nick Didkovsky (born 22 November 1958) is a composer, guitarist, computer music programmer, and leader of the band Doctor Nerve.
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Nonprofit organization
A nonprofit organization (NPO), also known as a nonbusiness entity, nonprofit institution, or simply a nonprofit (using the adjective as a noun), is a legal entity organized and operated for a collective, public or social benefit, as opposed to an entity that operates as a business aiming to generate a profit for its owners.
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Ozric Tentacles
Ozric Tentacles are an English instrumental rock band, whose music incorporates elements from a diverse range of genres, including psychedelic rock, progressive rock, space rock, jazz fusion, electronic music, dub music, world music, and ambient music.
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Pallas (band)
Pallas are a Scottish progressive rock band from Aberdeen.
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Paul Whitehead
Paul Whitehead is a British painter and graphic artist known for his surrealistic album covers for artists on the Charisma Records label in the 1970s, such as Genesis and Van der Graaf Generator.
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Pär Lindh
Pär Lindh (born Pär Olov Aron Lind, 24 March 1959) is a Swedish composer, musician and founding member of the Swedish symphonic rock group Pär Lindh Project.
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania, officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania Dutch), is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States.
Peter Hammill
Peter Joseph Andrew Hammill (born 5 November 1948) is an English musician and recording artist.
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Philadelphia
Philadelphia, colloquially referred to as Philly, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the sixth-most populous city in the nation, with a population of 1,603,797 in the 2020 census.
Planet X (band)
Planet X was an instrumental rock supergroup, founded by keyboardist Derek Sherinian and drummer Virgil Donati.
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Porcupine Tree
Porcupine Tree are an English rock band formed by musician Steven Wilson in 1987.
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Premiata Forneria Marconi
Premiata Forneria Marconi (PFM) (translation: Award-winning Marconi Bakery) is an Italian progressive rock band founded in 1970 which continues to the present day.
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Present (band)
Present is a Belgian progressive rock group formed by guitarist Roger Trigaux in 1979.
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Priam
In Greek mythology, Priam (Πρίαμος) was the legendary and last king of Troy during the Trojan War.
Progressive rock
Progressive rock (shortened as prog rock or simply prog) is a broad genre of rock music that primarily developed in the United Kingdom through the mid- to late 1960s, peaking in the early 1970s.
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Proto-Kaw
Proto-Kaw is an American progressive rock band.
Pure Reason Revolution
Pure Reason Revolution is a British rock group formed at the University of Westminster in 2003.
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Radio Massacre International
Radio Massacre International is a trio of British musicians, Steve Dinsdale (keyboards and drums), Duncan Goddard (keyboards and bass), and Gary Houghton (guitar, synth).
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Renaissance (band)
Renaissance are an English progressive rock band, best known for their 1978 UK top 10 hit "Northern Lights" and progressive rock classics like "Carpet of the Sun", "Mother Russia", and "Ashes Are Burning".
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Riverside (band)
Riverside are a Polish progressive rock band from Warsaw.
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Robert Rich (musician)
Robert Rich (born August 23, 1963) is an ambient musician and composer based in California, United States.
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Roger Dean (artist)
William Roger Dean (born 31 August 1944) is an English artist, designer, and publisher.
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Salix alba
Salix alba, the white willow, is a species of willow native to Europe and western and central Asia.
Sean Malone
Sean Malone (April 12, 1970 – December 7, 2020) was an American musician who played primarily fretless bass guitar and Chapman Stick.
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum (often abbreviated to SGM) is an American experimental rock band, formed in 1999 in Oakland, California.
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Solaris (band)
Solaris is a Hungarian progressive rock band formed in 1980.
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Spock's Beard
Spock's Beard is an American progressive rock band formed in Los Angeles.
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Steve Hackett
Stephen Richard Hackett (born 12 February 1950) is an English guitarist who gained prominence as the lead guitarist of the progressive rock band Genesis from 1971 to 1977.
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Steve Hillage
Stephen Simpson Hillage (born 2 August 1951) is an English musician, best known as a guitarist.
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Steve Roach (musician)
Steve Roach (born February 16, 1955) is an American composer and performer of ambient and electronic music, whose recordings are informed by his impressions of environment, perception, flow and space.
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Strawbs
The Strawbs are an English rock band founded in 1964 as the Strawberry Hill Boys.
The Enid
The Enid are a British progressive rock band founded by keyboardist and composer Robert John Godfrey.
The Flower Kings
The Flower Kings are a Swedish progressive rock band formed in 1994 by guitarist and singer-songwriter Roine Stolt.
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The Muffins
The Muffins were an American Maryland-based progressive rock/avant-jazz group.
The Musical Box (band)
The Musical Box are a Canadian tribute band formed in Montreal, Quebec in 1993 who recreate performances by the English rock band Genesis during the 1970s.
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The Pineapple Thief
The Pineapple Thief are an English progressive rock band founded in 1999 by Bruce Soord in Yeovil, Somerset.
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The Red Masque
The Red Masque is an avant-garde rock band from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Thinking Plague
Thinking Plague is an American avant-garde progressive rock group founded in 1982 by guitarist/composer Mike Johnson and bass guitarist/drummer Bob Drake.
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Three Friends
Three Friends is the third studio album by British progressive rock band Gentle Giant, released in 1972.
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Tony Levin
Anthony Frederick Levin (born June 6, 1946) is an American musician and composer specializing in electric bass guitars, Chapman Stick and upright bass.
Transatlantic (band)
Transatlantic is a multinational progressive rock supergroup consisting of Neal Morse (ex–Spock's Beard), Roine Stolt (Kaipa, the Flower Kings), Pete Trewavas (Marillion, Edison's Children) and Mike Portnoy (Dream Theater).
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Trenton, New Jersey
Trenton is the capital city of the U.S. state of New Jersey and the county seat of Mercer County.
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Trettioåriga Kriget
Trettioåriga Kriget (Swedish for Thirty Years' War) is a Swedish progressive rock group, formed in Saltsjöbaden, south of Stockholm, Sweden in 1970.
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Tunnel
A tunnel is an underground or undersea passageway.
Twelfth Night (band)
Twelfth Night are an English neo-prog band of the 1980s, reformed between 2007 and 2012 and again in 2014.
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U.K. (band)
U.K. were a British progressive rock supergroup originally active from 1977 to 1980.
Underground Railroad (band)
Underground Railroad are a French post-punk band based in London, England.
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United States
The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.
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Univers Zero
Univers Zero (also known as Univers Zéro and Univers-Zero) are an instrumental Belgian band formed in 1974 by drummer Daniel Denis.
Van der Graaf Generator
Van der Graaf Generator are an English progressive rock band, formed in 1967 in Manchester by singer-songwriters Peter Hammill and Chris Judge Smith and the first act signed by Charisma Records.
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Wobbler (band)
Wobbler is a Norwegian progressive rock band formed in 1999.
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Woodenhead
Woodenhead is a 2003 New Zealand film directed by Florian Habicht.
Yes (band)
Yes are an English progressive rock band formed in London in 1968 by lead singer Jon Anderson, bassist Chris Squire, guitarist Peter Banks, keyboardist Tony Kaye, and drummer Bill Bruford.
Yezda Urfa
Yezda Urfa was an American progressive rock band founded in the fall of 1973.
See also
Lehigh University
- 1979 NCAA Division I cross country championships
- 1983 NCAA Division I cross country championships
- 1993 NCAA Division I cross country championships
- 691 Lehigh
- Big-Bang Cannon
- Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat
- Journal of Differential Geometry
- Lehigh Mountain Hawks
- Lehigh University
- Lehigh University Press
- Life Sciences Greenhouse of Central Pennsylvania
- List of Lehigh University buildings
- List of Lehigh University engineering highlights
- Marching 97
- Murder of Jeanne Clery
- NEARfest
- Psi Alpha Kappa
- Smith number
- SouthSide Film Festival
- Tau Beta Pi
- WLVR-FM
Music festivals in Pennsylvania
- 92.1 Fuzz Fest
- Blast Furnace Blues Festival
- Concert 10
- Creation Festival
- Deutschtown Music Festival
- Flood City Music Festival
- Harrisburg Independence Day Celebration
- Karoondinha Music & Arts Festival
- Mayfair Festival of the Arts
- Musikfest
- NEARfest
- New American Music Union
- Pittsburgh Blues Festival
- Pittsburgh Folk Festival
- Rootz: The Green City Music Festival
- Summer MixTape Festival
- Susquehanna Breakdown Music Festival
- The Peach Music Festival
- Three Rivers Arts Festival
Progressive rock
- Art rock
- Avant-prog
- Canterbury scene
- It's Psychedelic Baby! Magazine
- Krautrock
- Medieval folk rock
- NEARfest
- Neo-prog
- Neo-progressive rock
- Post-progressive
- Prog (magazine)
- Progressive folk
- Progressive metal
- Progressive pop
- Progressive rock
- Progressive soul
- Proto-prog
- Romantic Warriors: A Progressive Music Saga
- Space rock
- The Rogue Independent Music Festival
- Timeline of progressive rock
- Timeline of progressive rock (1960–1969)
- Timeline of progressive rock (1970–1979)
- Timeline of progressive rock (1980–1989)
- Timeline of progressive rock (1990–1999)
- Timeline of progressive rock (2000–2009)
- Timeline of progressive rock (2010–2019)
- Timeline of progressive rock (2020–2029)
- Zeuhl
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEARfest
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