The Vans Warped Tour is making a comeback in 2025, and some musicians from Central New York will be part of the fun.
Jeremy Romance and the Zero Friends Club will perform at the Vans Warped Tour 30th anniversary festival on Nov. 15-16 at Camping World Stadium in Orlando, Florida. They were added to the lineup Monday, along with names announced so far like 3OH!3, Miss May I, Pennywise, Royal & The Serpent, State Champs, Story of the Year, The Maine and The Starting Line.
Other artists, including new and nostalgic acts, will be announced in the coming days as part of the rebooted festival’s 30 Days of Warped Tour announcements. Orlando is one of three cities hosting two-day concerts, along with Washington, D.C. on June 14-15 and Long Beach, California, on July 26-27.
Lineups will vary by location. 311 and Cobra Starship will play the Downtown Long Beach Shoreline Waterfront, for example, while D.C.‘s Festival Grounds at RFK Campus will feature Dance Hall Crashers and Simple Plan; Bowling for Soup will perform in those two cities, but not Orlando.
State Champs, a pop-punk band from Albany, is one of the few acts playing the Warped Tour in all three cities.
The Warped Tour was a popular touring festival featuring big names in punk, ska and alternative rock for 25 years. Past tours included shows at Darien Lake and Syracuse, but the last “Warped Tour” was a similar multi-city festival in 2019.
Jeremy Romance, a Syracuse-based musician that mixes alternative rock with emo rap, previously played the Warped Tour in 2016 with the post-emo hardcore punk band One Last Shot. As a solo artist, he’s skewed more hip-hop, including on collaborations with national acts like Redman and the late Juice WRLD.
Romance will be joined in Orlando by the Zero Friends Club live band, a group of local musicians that includes his former One Last Shot bandmate Collins Van Gordon, A Greater Danger members Taylor and Chandler Porter, and rapper Vinny Freeman.
The full 2025 Vans Warped Tour lineup will be revealed Feb. 26. The festival has not yet said which day or time Jeremy Romance and the Zero Friends Club will perform in Orlando.
Limited tickets for the Orlando event are currently on sale at vanswarpedtourorlando.frontgatetickets.com. Two-day General Admission tickets cost $229.98 (including fees) and VIP passes cost $449.98 (including fees).
The Washington, D.C., and Long Beach concert festivals are sold out, but fans can look for tickets through VividSeats, StubHub, and SeatGeek.
To celebrate the festival news, Jeremy Romance and Vinny Freeman released a new song Monday, “The Dope Adventures of Jeremy & Vinny,” on YouTube.
Note: Video contains lyrics not suitable for younger audiences.
