document: Phish Phavors New York With 3-Day Phestival In Phinger Lakes Big announcement today from Phish HQ : the quartet will be playing a three day festival in New York in July . Super Ball IX will be held at Watkins Glen International -LRB- about a five hours drive from the city -RRB- from July 1st to the 3rd , and as our resident hippie here at Gothamist HQ points out , '' `` I do n't think there 's been a concert there of this magnitude since Summer Jam , perhaps because that one was a traffic nightmare . '' '' Perfect , because nothing says Independence Day like burning some phossil phuel with your phellow Americans . In their announcement today the band does point out that , yes , this is '' `` the first major music festival held at Watkins Glen since 1973 '' `` s legendary Summer Jam . '' '' They also note it will be their '' `` biggest ball ever '' '' -LRB- of their nine , and counting -RRB- , so be prepared : -LRB- Summer Jam got into Guiness for the '' `` Largest audience at a pop festival , '' '' with 600,000 in attendance -RRB- . Not scared of a little traffic ? Tickets go on sale this coming Monday , April 4th , right here - and more information can be found in their enjoyable little video below . Phish notes that Super Ball IX continues a tradition that began with The Clifford Ball in August of 1996 - which was awesome , and we may or may not be in this video taken there .
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