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VETERANS DAY OBSERVED The Worcester County Veterans Memorial Foundation hosted its annual Veterans Day ceremony on a frigid and windy Tuesday to pay tribute to those who served in all branch of the country’s Armed Forces. See page 68 for more photos.
Worcester adds to its More housing under network of cameras review near Pines From libraries to landfills, Worcester will have somewhere around 175 watchful eyes monitoring citizens by this spring.— PAGE 18
A residential planned community on Route 589 with 137 multi-family units gets a first look by county’s technical review committee.— PAGE 13
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PHOTO COURTESY C3 PRESENTS
Boardwalk Rock is pictured during a performance on Saturday in the May event.
Boardwalk Rock 2026 nixed when headliners backed out By Bethany Hooper Associate Editor (Nov. 14, 2025) The cancellation of two headline acts has forced the promoter of the Boardwalk Rock music festival to cancel next year’s event, Ocean City Tourism and Business Development Director Tom Perlozzo said last week. Last Wednesday, the Town of Ocean City announced the second edition of the Boardwalk Rock festival would not be held next spring. While organizers and city staff are optimistic about the event’s return in 2027, Perlozzo said challenges in securing headline acts forced the promoter – C3 Presents – to cancel the 2026 event entirely. “Everything, operationally, was set and ready to go,” Perlozzo said in an interview last Thursday. “But we had two headliners drop out over the course of getting this thing ready, and we couldn’t find a replacement that was suitable and met the expectations for a first-class event here in Ocean City.” While expressing his disappointment over the cancellation, Perlozzo said C3 Presents was working to bring Boardwalk Rock back to Ocean City in 2027 with top-tier entertainment, which he said is often booked between 18 months and two years in advance of an event. Perlozzo declined to comment on who the two headliners were that pulled out of the 2026 music festival, and C3 Presents’ Tim Sweetwood did not immediately respond to a request for comment. “We’re extremely disappointed,” Perlozzo said of the cancellation. “It’s a great opportunity and puts a shot in the arms of the businesses. But I think 2027 will be bigger and better.” Last winter, C3 Presents announced it would bring a third major music festival – Boardwalk Rock – to
downtown Ocean City May 17-18, 2025. To accommodate the new event, officials moved the yearly Springfest and Cruisin’ Ocean City to earlier dates on the special events calendar. Within days of its announcement, the promoter released the lineup for the spring festival. Headliners included Def Leppard and Mötley Crüe on Saturday and Nickelback and Shinedown on Sunday. The acts also featured supporting sets from 23 other bands, including Halestorm, Three Doors Down, and Alice Cooper. However, in April, the promoter announced Mötley Crüe had canceled its appearance, as lead vocalist Vince Neil was recovering from a medical procedure. Alice in Chains was announced as the backup performer. But roughly a month later, it was announced that Alice in Chains had also canceled its performance over a medical issue. The following day, Rob Zombie was added to the lineup. Slow ticket sales also plagued the spring music festival. However, by the festival weekend, Boardwalk Rock had sold out. Building off the success of two other festivals – Oceans Calling and Country Calling – the promoter’s event brought an estimated 55,000 people to downtown Ocean City for the two-day event, which featured nearly 30 national rock groups performing on three stages. In a statement released last Wednesday, the Town of Ocean City said it looks forward to welcoming Boardwalk Rock back to Ocean City in 2027. Perlozzo said last week that the promoter’s challenges in securing entertainment have no effect on next year’s Oceans Calling and Country Calling concerts, the lineups of which will be announced in the coming months.
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