The Asbury Park Music and Film Festival will return to the city by the sea in 2020.

The festival, now in its sixth year, will take place Thursday, April 23, to Sunday, April 26, in Asbury Park, the Asbury Park Press can exclusively report.

Stars of film and music such as Bruce Springsteen, Danny DeVito, David Crosby, Cameron Crowe, Wyclef Jean and Peter and Bobby Farrelly have been among the guests to appear at the festival over the years.

Details on screenings, performances and panel discussions for 2020 are expected to be revealed in the coming months via the festival's website, www.apmff.org, as well as its Facebook, Twitter and Instagram pages.

Check out our recap of all of the action from the 2019 Asbury Park Music and Film Festival!

The Asbury Park Music and Film Festival, which launched in 2015, benefits under-served children in Asbury Park and the surrounding areas by providing music education, instruments and social connection opportunities.

The Asbury Park Press and RWJ Barnabas Health sponsor the festival as founding partners, with First Atlantic Federal Credit Union as the presenting sponsor and the Jay and Linda Grunin Foundation and Madison Marquette as sponsors.

The festival's co-chairs include Sony Pictures Classics co-president and co-founder Tom Bernard, photographer and filmmaker Danny Clinch, Amazon Music's global head of music catalog Adam Block and Tom Donovan, the former Asbury Park Press president and publisher and president of the Northeast Group of the USA TODAY NETWORK who retired in June.

"Over the last five years, the Asbury Park Music and Film Festival has produced some of the most memorable events to take place on both stage and screen in the history of the city," said Bernard in a statement. "Through these iconic moments, the festival has remained steadfast in its commitment to raise funding for the under-served children of Asbury Park and surrounding communities. We are devoted to providing local youth the necessary resources in order to pursue their dreams and flourish in both music and the arts.”

Jay and Linda Grunin Foundation president Jeremy Grunin has joined the festival's board of advisors, which also includes Tom Jones of the Halo Group; Josh Braun of Submarine Entertainment; former New Jersey Devils player Jim Dowd; Eric Eisner of Double E Pictures; Denis Gallagher of Charliewood Pictures; filmmaker Justin Kreutzmann; publicist Annie McDonough; Bob Dylan manager Jeff Rosen; disc jockeys Rich Russo and Shelli Sonstein, Bob Santelli of the Grammy Museum; and "Batman' franchise producer Michael Uslan.

Boardwalk landmark the Paramount Theatre, now boasting a new projection system, partnered with the festival to bring Trafalgar Releasing film events to Asbury Park throughout the year, with upcoming screenings including the Roger Waters concert film "Us and Them" on Oct. 4 and "Metallica and San Francisco Symphony S&M2" on Oct. 11.

The festival and Trafalgar Releasing will also present "ZZ Top: That Lil' Old Band From Texas" on Oct. 16 at the Hackensack Meridian Health Theatre at the Count Basie Center for the Arts in Red Bank. Partial proceed from tickets to these events support the festival community work.

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