It’s never too soon to start talking about Vans Warped Tour updates.  The latest announcement is that Boston ska band Big D & The Kids Table will be playing every date on Warped Tour 2011.  This of course includes the Minneapolis date on July 10th at Canterbury Park.  We will be keeping tabs on any ska/reggae additions to the Warped Tour so that you don’t have to.

The annual punk-rock circus known as the Vans Warped Tour came through Minnesota on August 1st at Canterbury Park and the videos of the tour’s ska bands are starting to trickle in.  This one is of the lovely female-fronted ska band from Connecticut, Tip The Van.  The band wasn’t originally slated to play the MN date, so it was a pleasant surprise to have them play a set for the Minnesota ska fans.  Here they are playing their song “Cherry Red” on the Kevin Says Stage.  This video was shot by MNSKA’s own Patrick Larson.

You can check out the video on YouTube HERE

Recently formed LA ska band HaSkaLA played a series of Vans Warped Tour dates on the “Ska Parade Stage” in Southern California this month as part of the 20th Anniversary of Ska Parade.  Each band performs 1-2 songs of historical importance to the development of ska and HaSkaLA decided to go with the classic Fishbone tune “Party At Ground Zero.”  To help them out, the band invited Fishbone’s Angelo Moore, along with members of Monkey, Mustard Plug, Knock-Out, Tazy Phyllipz of Ska Parade Radio and more!   Big ups to Don Adams for directing this video.

You can check out the Vans Warped Tour 2010 when it rolls through Canterbury Park in Shakopee, MN on Sunday, August 1st.