PLEASE CARPOOL: It helps to dramatically expedite the entrancing and exiting. Please be aware that it can take anywhere from 30 – 45 minutes to exit the lots, so please plan ahead and have patience. Gate E, located off of 2A and in the back of the Exposition will be open for both entrance and exit.

Keep in mind that this show is at the Midway Lawn, not in the Grandstands. It’s a General Admission venue with a lawn, so please be respectful of others.

Tickets: Download + save your tickets ahead of time. Printed tickets are also acceptable.

ADA Parking/Entrance: The ADA parking area and venue entrance can be accessed by entering from Rt. 15 / Pearl Street at Gate B and taking your first right. Please have your ADA placard hanging and visible when pulling into the Expo. Parking attendants will direct you to the ADA parking area.

No re-entry: Remember to bring everything you need for the night from your car. Once your ticket is scanned, you will not be permitted back to your vehicle.

The show is rain or shine: Personal umbrellas are fine, but please no golf umbrellas. In the event of severe weather, the show may be paused or delayed. Please listen clearly to instructions from the security team and/or venue staff. We’ll also update ticket holders via email and post updates on our Facebook and Instagram.

BAR SERVICE IS CREDIT/DEBIT CARDS ONLY: All bar service is cashless, but some food vendors may accept cash.

NO:

• Outside food and drinks (including unopened water bottles, but an empty reusable water bottle is allowed)

• Professional cameras (SLR’s with detachable lenses), video or audio recording, tripods, or drones

• Pets – Service animals are permitted

YES:

• Seating: Blanket, chair (low beach chairs preferred)

• Sunscreen, hat, rain gear (if applicable),

• Valid photo ID, Credit/debit card (no cash accepted at bar)

• Empty reusable water bottle

Bag Policy: Bags are permitted but subject to search. Not bringing a bag? Save time and get into the venue quicker through the No Bags line.

Food vendors on site include: A Single Pebble, Mach’s Woodfired Pizza, Kona Beachside, North Country Specialty Food (Fried Dough, Fried Oreos, Frozen Drinks, Lemonade, Ice Cream Floats), The Scoop Ice Cream, B&M Famous Fries, Smokin’ Joes BBQ, Ahli Baba’s, Whoa Nellie Kettle Corn.

The bar will feature selections from Fiddlehead, Zero Gravity, Narragansett, Stowe Cider, High Noon, White Claw, Barefoot Wine, and Athletic Brewing Co., as well as cocktails from Barr Hill, Mad River, Tito’s and El Jimador Tequila

An evening with CAKE on Tuesday, June 2 at the Midway Lawn at Champlain Valley Expo

Children 12 and under are FREE (+ do not need a ticket)! No food or drinks allowed. Blankets and chairs are permitted. All events are rain or shine. All dates, acts, and ticket prices subject to change without notice.

 

Originally formed as a somewhat antagonistic answer to grunge, CAKE’s defiant self-reliance and lucid yet ever-inventive music has made them a nation-state unto themselves with no evident peers in sound or perspective. CAKE’s most recent album, Showroom of Compassion, debuted at #1 on the Billboard Top 200 Album Chart and was touted as “deadpan brilliance” by The New Yorker Magazine. While seamlessly blending numerous genres and influences, CAKE issues forth a sound and vision unlike any other band.

CAKE is currently at work on their ninth album due for release during autumn 2025.

The band recently contributed a new song — “Hold You (Responsible)” — to the Noise For Now compilation album SONGS FOR SEX, an artist response to Project 2025. The compilation album supports the importance of standing up for bodily autonomy, reproductive freedoms and personal privacy. The band was grateful for the chance to fight for reproductive rights for all citizens.

Additionally, ahead of a recent show in San Antonio, the band stopped by the Texas Public Radio station to record a song for a “Live From the Freight Elevator” session performing the new song titled, “Billionaire in Space” also set to be included on CAKE’s new album to be released next year. Lead vocalist John McCrea shared that “’Billionaire in Space’ is an observation, really of all billionaires, and the economic imbalance that we have been lulled into accepting as the norm. It is a song about being left behind.”