Jon Stewart, Pete Davidson, George Clinton Headline 2025 North To Shore Festival

ASBURY PARK, NJ — The North to Shore music festival returns in summer 2025 to New Jersey.

This is the music/art/comedy festival, now in its third year, conceived by Gov. Phil Murphy and his wife Tammy Murphy as a way to boost economic activity and bring live music and live entertainment to New Jersey cities at the start of summer.

The theme of North to Shore this year is comedy and music, and the biggest-name acts booked to perform are George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic, Stone Temple Pilots, Third Eye Blind, plus Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, as part of their Restless Leg stand-up comedy tour. The stand-up comedy trio of Jon Stewart (who lives in New Jersey), John Mulaney and SNL comedian Pete Davidson (he hails from Staten Island), called "Jon, John & Pete," will also headline.

The festival will feature live music concerts through the month of June. Tickets to all shows go on sale at 10 a.m. this Thursday; use the presale code EVENTS for early access to tickets. See links below to purchase tickets.

In the past two years, the festival spanned three New Jersey cities: Newark, Asbury Park and Atlantic City, but it appears to be truncated in 2025, with only Newark and Asbury Park hosting bands and acts.

In previous years, the festival included poetry. This year, the theme of the festival is "Laughs and Jams."

For the third year in a row, Prudential Bank is the North to Shore primary sponsor. In its first two years, North to Shore brought in more than $25 million for ticketed events and has drawn a total audience of over 500,000 to more than 650 shows in 250 venues in Newark, Asbury Park and Atlantic City, making it New Jersey’s largest summer arts festival.

Here are all the bands playing in Asbury Park June 14 through June 29 as part of North to Shore:

Jun 14 Eggy buy tickets

Jun 15 LA LOM buy tickets

Jun 18 Motion City Soundtrack buy tickets

Jun 19 Asbury Jams: Delicate Steve buy tickets

Jun 19 Steel Pulse buy tickets

Jun 20 Crumb buy tickets

Jun 20 Emerson Woolf & The Wishbones buy tickets

Jun 20 Cults buy tickets

Jun 20 The Parlor Mob buy tickets

Jun 21 The Smithereens with guest vocalist Marshall Crenshaw buy tickets

Jun 21 moe. buy tickets

Jun 21 Stars buy tickets

Jun 21 Brenda K. Starr buy tickets

Jun 21 Lawrence with Allen Stone buy tickets

Jun 22 Larkin Poe buy tickets

Jun 22 Slightly Stoopid buy tickets

Jun 22 Penelope Road buy tickets

Jun 25 Moon Hooch buy tickets

Jun 26 Jack’s Mannequin buy tickets

Jun 26 Asbury Jams: BASIC buy tickets

Jun 27 Streetlight Manifesto buy tickets

Jun 27 John Cafferty & The Beaver Brown Band buy tickets

Jun 28 Fantastic Cat buy tickets

Jun 29 George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic with Living Colour buy tickets

And here are the bands playing in Newark June 14 - June 29:

Jun 17 The String Cheese Incident buy tickets

Jun 19 Natalia Lafourcade buy tickets

Jun 20 Third Eye Blind with Stars buy tickets

Jun 20 Two Funny Mamas with Sherri Shepherd & Kym Whitley buy tickets

Jun 21 Kumail Nanjiani: Doing This Again buy tickets

Jun 22 Tina Fey & Amy Poehler Restless Leg Tour buy tickets

Jun 22 An Arabic Night with Bassem Youssef buy tickets

Jun 26 Stone Temple Pilots with The Parlor Mob buy tickets

Jun 27 “Jon, John & Pete” - Jon Stewart/John Mulaney/Pete Davidson buy tickets

Jun 27 Horizon Sounds of the City Felix Hernandez’s Rhythm Revue Dance Party free

Jun 27 Joey Diaz buy tickets

Jun 27 Nicole Byer buy tickets

Jun 28 Horizon Sounds of the City Big Daddy Kane with Band free

Jun 28 Josh Johnson: The Flowers Tour buy tickets

Jun 28 Rosebud Baker buy tickets

Jun 29 Gregory Porter with April May Webb buy tickets

Jun 29 Horizon Sounds of the City: Lettuce free

Jun 29 Martin Amini buy ticket