The Fabulous Rudies

The Warped Tour was a traveling rock tour that toured the United States plus three or four stops in Canada annually each summer from 1995 until 2019. It was the largest traveling music festival in the United States and was the longest-running touring music festival to date in North America. Vans toured Australia in 1998-2002 and again in 2013. Following the first Warped Tour, the skateboard shoe manufacturer Vans became the main sponsor of the tour, when it became known as the Vans Warped Tour. Although Vans continued as main sponsor and lent its name to the festival, other sponsors also participated, with stages or other aspects of the festival being named after them on occasion. Warped Tour was conceived by Kevin Lyman as an electric alternative rock festival, but later began focusing on punk rock music. Although it was primarily a punk rock festival, it covered diverse genres over the years. Warped Tour founder Kevin Lyman said that the 2018 Vans Warped Tour would be the final, full cross-country run. On 18 December 2018, Lyman revealed details for the tour's 25th anniversary, with only three events in 2019. In November 2019, rumors spread that Chris Fronzak planned to bring back the Warped Tour after Lyman's retirement. On 4 October 2020, Fronzak confirmed his intent to be involved in the return of Warped Tour, however, "for legal reasons it (could not) come back for "three years or so."