The VOV - we believe.

The Valley of the Vapors Independent Music Festival (VOV) is gearing up for its 5th and biggest year yet with bands traveling from as far away as Australia, Canada, Israel, New York, California and all points in between. These bands make up the fabric of a global community of DIY'sters who focus on sound, measure, tempo and theme and leave the pop writing formula on the backburner, so they may be someday noted for their musical innovation and not the gross total of records sold. Not sold but SOUL. Pure rock and roll soul that is loud, fast, scary and so wonderfully sincere it'll make you cry.

But The VOV is more than the bands it attracts - it's the setting these bands find themselves in when they reach our small Arkansas town of 35K, in the up-close and personal confines of Low Key Arts - a 200 capacity venue, that makes our festival great. The VOV is not the bloated idea of "festival" that has been defined by Lollapolooza, Coachella, or Bonarroo where 876545677896 bands play on 7654329007 stages, in front of 87887866669808708098098 people who will fight you for a spot in line at one of the 13 port-a-potties. No, The VOV is about community. We are a festival organized and run by volunteers who need something more, something raw, something real to inspire them. We hit the streets and ask for donations, grants, food, drinks, microphones, hammers, nails and duct tape - whatever it takes to make it happen just one time a year.

Come on in our website and poke around. See what we have to offer this year. Come to our town, Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas - surrounded by forests, lakes, rolling mountains, retirees, crystal digging hippies, and religious fanatics is the last place you would think a rock festival would take place, but it does. Come check us out.

Tickets are on sale now.