Vans Warped Tour To End After 2018 Run

The Vans Warped Tour is coming to an end, as 2018 will be the last punk rock music festival, tour founder Kevin Lyman announced Wednesday. Lyman shared the news in an online essay, "All Things Must Come To An End," on the Vans Warped Tour website. The 2018 tour will stop in Indianapolis on July 24, 2018.

"I am so grateful to have worked with more than 1,700 bands over the last 23 summers. I wish I could thank every band that has played the tour," Lyman said in his essay.

The famous festival and tour kicked off careers for several now-famous punk rock acts including Fall Out Boy, and featured No Doubt and Sublime during its first year in 1995. Lyman adds the tour gave way to the "birth of Emo with bands like Thrice, Thursday, The Used, Taking Back Sunday, The Starting Line, Motion City Soundtrack and Jimmy Eat World."

The 2017 Vans Warped Tour made a stop in Noblesville at the Ruoff Home Mortgage Music Center, formally known then as Klipsch Music Center.

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"Though the tour and the world have changed since ’95, the same feeling of having the ‘best summer ever’ will live on through the bands, the production teams, and the fans that come through at every stop," Lyman said in his essay.

To read Lyman's complete piece and for more information, visit vanswarpedtour.com.

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