MUSIC FAMILY

You love live music, but with a young family in tow your carefree days of going to shows on the spur of the moment are behind you. Don’t despair.

With summertime comes a plethora of upstate music festivals for the whole clan — if you know what you’re doing. The Family Hoedown at The “G” Lodge in Hannibal. Estival Festival in Canadea. The Rochester International Jazz Festival. Sherman’s Great Blue Heron Music Festival. Finger Lakes GrassRoots Festival of Music & Dance in Trumansburg. They’re waiting. And that’s just the shortlist.

Wanting to bring your little wild ones to a music festival and actually making it happen are two different things. Will you be able to get through the weekend in one piece? CITY has your Music Fest Family Survival Guide — an essential checklist of the tactics, tools, and tidbits of advice you need to have your ear candy and eat it, too.

BY DANIEL J. KUSHNER @DANIELJKUSHNER DKUSHNER@ROCHESTER-CITYNEWS.COM