{"id":43172,"date":"2024-03-20T16:48:59","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T20:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=43172"},"modified":"2024-03-21T16:09:52","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T20:09:52","slug":"8th-edition-of-lakelands-punk-rock-flea-market-is-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2024\/03\/20\/8th-edition-of-lakelands-punk-rock-flea-market-is-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"8th edition of Lakeland\u2019s Punk Rock Flea Market is Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When Chad Chastain first booked bands to play Lakeland\u2019s Punk Rock Flea Market<\/a>, he just solicited a few bands he personally knew that year. About 1,500 people showed up to shop and listen.<\/p>\n\n\n

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That was in 2019. By 2023, more than 4,000 people showed up for the 2023 Punk Rock Flea Market, a day when everyone can be \u201cpunk,\u201d with or without piercings, spiked orange hair, or an attitude.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you go<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WHAT: Punk Rock Flea Market Vol. 8<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WHEN: Noon to 6 p.m., March 24<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WHERE: Swan Brewing<\/p>\n\n\n\n

COST: Free<\/p>\n\n\n\n

INFO: www.lakelandpunkflea.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The eighth edition of the Punk Rock Flea Market takes place from noon to 6 p.m. Sunday along the shore of Lake Wire at Lakeland\u2019s\u00a0Swan Brewing<\/a>, vendors and food trucks from across Florida and the southeastern United States in 76 spaces will be on hand, selling a variety of jewelry, classic vinyl records, goth and punk club wear, clothing, band t-shirts, stickers, custom-designed vintage dinnerware and other music and punk-rock related items.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For those unfamiliar with the outa-the-mainstream music genre, in the mid-1970s, punk was a rock movement that consisted of short, fast songs, minimal instrumentation, and screeching vocals often consisting of political, anti-establishment lyrics. That anti-establishment aura continues to this day all over the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Locally, the first two Punk Rock Flea Markets were held in 2019, (the event was canceled in 2020 and early 2021 because of COVID-19). But it has taken place twice a year, in March and September, ever since.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chastain, event coordinator and self-proclaimed \u201cold punk rock dude,\u201d has been in charge of finding bands to play at the event since the beginning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chastain, 43, is also the drummer for one of this year\u2019s bands, The Kutoffs. He said he generally books bands to play that he has \u201csome kind of a relationship with,\u201d but also asks bands, generally by email, he\u2019s personally seen play and he thought would be a good fit musically, visually, and diversely..<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA lot of it is, if you\u2019ve been part of the music scene for 20 years, you kind of know some guys,\u201d said Chastain, who lives in Lakeland with a 16-year-old son and 13-year-old daughter. \u201cAnd I wasn\u2019t able to this time, but I always try to have some female or LBGTQ representation, too. Sometimes, I have to change (format) standards or go another music route to get that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scheduled for the 2024 Punk Rock Flea Market are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n