While New York prepares to host two music festivals to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Woodstock, Indiana will be the site of the 20th “Gathering of the Juggalos.”

Founded by the Insane Clown Posse and parodied on “Saturday Night Live,” the Juggalo festival will be presented July 31-Aug. 3 at Lawrence County Recreational Park 12 miles south of Bloomington.

Fans of rap-rock duo Insane Clown Posse are known as Juggalos. Previous editions of the “Gathering of the Juggalos” have made headlines for fights, arrests, drug overdoses and attendee deaths.

Lawrence County Recreational Park manager Rayce Guthrie said "Gathering of the Juggalos" organizers are renting the 406-acre park.

Attendees — many wearing face paint of psychotic clowns in tribute to ICP members Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope — will gather amid hills, meadows and wooded terrain.

Guthrie said the park primarily caters to dirt bike and all-terrain vehicle enthusiasts who ride trails.

"We're very active in the motorcycle community," Guthrie said. The park has accommodated 10,000 people on busy weekends, he said.

According to a map tweeted Thursday by the official Insane Clown Posse account, the festival will feature three performance stages: the "Soopa" stage, the "Shazam" stage and the "Uncanny" stage.

The lineup of acts joining the Insane Clown Posse has not been announced. Through the years, the event has featured appearances by Vanilla Ice, Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, Three 6 Mafia, Ice Cube, Flavor Flav and Charlie Sheen.

Social-media personality Tila Tequila was struck by bottles thrown by audience members at the 2010 "Gathering of the Juggalos." A 24-year-old man's fatal overdose marred the 2013 edition of the festival, and a 24-year-old man drowned in the Ohio River during the 2011 festival.

Since the festival's founding in 2000, it has been staged in Michigan, Illinois, Ohio and Oklahoma.

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This year will be Indiana's debut as a "Gathering of the Juggalos" site, but Detroit's Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope are familiar with the Hoosier state:

In January 1998, Violent J and other members of the duo's entourage were arrested after a fight in a Greenfield Waffle House. The Insane Clown Posse stopped at the restaurant after playing a show at Old National Centre in Indianapolis. Violent J pleaded guilty to a charge of disorderly conduct and paid a $325 fine.

ICP headlined Market Square Arena in 1999, supported by an undercard of Krayzie Bone, Biohazard and Mindless Self Indulgence.

From 2004 to 2011, the Insane Clown Posse played annual Halloween shows at Ruoff Home Mortgage Music Centre in Noblesville.

For more information about this year’s “Gathering of the Juggalos,” visit lcrp.ridetrails.org.

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