Inaugural Everything Fab Four Fest to Honor The Beatles

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A new annual Beatles festival has been established with a full lineup of events. The inaugural Everything Fab Four Fest will be held November 6-8, 2025, in Asbury Park, NJ. The band’s 1965 album Rubber Soul, often considered the first major turning point in their recorded career, will take center stage at the initial event, to be held at the historic Berkeley Oceanfront Hotel.

A lineup of special guests will be on hand to provide ticket holders with three days’ worth of curated content, concerts, conversations and more. Headlining the event on November 7 is famed E Street Band drummer and longtime Beatles fan Max Weinberg who will be in-conversation with Bob Santelli, Director of the Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center for American Music. Weinberg will also perform several Beatles songs with Jersey Shore favorites, The Weeklings, and will be available for a special meet and greet opportunity. Tickets are available for purchase here.

Jake Clemons, current E Street Band saxophonist (successor to his uncle, Clarence “The Big Man” Clemons), will headline on November 8 with his band. Clemons will also be available for a meet and greet session to benefit the Light of Day Foundation, which utilizes music’s cultural power to raise money and awareness in the continuing quest to end Parkinson’s Disease.

Dr. Kenneth Womack, Professor of English & Popular Music at Monmouth University and critically acclaimed Beatles author (as well as host of the Everything Fab Four podcast), is spearheading the festival activities. [Many of his Beatles-related books are available here.] “Asbury Park is the place to be this November as we come together to celebrate Rubber Soul in a town that serves as one of the nation’s most vaunted music heritage sites,” he said. “Fans will be treated to live performances, multimedia presentations and expert panels on the album’s enduring legacy.”

Other special guests and performers at the festival include singer-songwriter Nellie McKay, author and filmmaker Jamie Bernstein (daughter of legendary conductor Leonard Bernstein), Rolling Stone magazine’s Rob Sheffield, psychedelic rock band Blac Rabbit, New Jersey’s own The Black Ties, the all-female Magical Mystery Girls band and more. A cast of Beatles experts will also be on hand, including Beatles author Bruce Spizer [whose many books are here], Scott Freiman, Jude Southerland Kessler and over 50 others.

Wonderwall Communications is presenting this three-day event in association with the Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center for American Music. The Berkeley Oceanfront Hotel is located at 1401 Ocean Avenue in Asbury Park, NJ.