It's back! The Hopscotch
Music Festival reawakens just weeks from now and boy, are we happy.
Musically speaking, things have been a little slow around
these parts as of late. Nothing too bad, but knowing hundreds of
well known and up and coming bands are pouring into our fair city soon
makes us swell with pride. Now in its third year, Hopscotch has
achieved a long overdue task: Putting Raleigh and the Triangle on the map
as a virtual fertile crescent of creative music.
Not that this is a new notion. Raleigh has
produced bands and music of the highest quality for years.
Remember Arrogance? The Fabulous Knobs? (my dad arranged my
first guitar lesson with Knobs lead guitar man David Enloe, who died a rock ‘n
roll early death only a few years ago). How about Th' Cigarettes?
The Connells, Dillon
Fence? If not, learn about them and many others at The Golden Age of NC Music and go to Comboland.com where they
play the hits born right here 24/7.
I am so happy to see some of the areas oldest and finest
acts on the Hopscotch lineup this year, such as Chris Stamey and
Peter Holsapple's The
DB's and Corrosion
of Conformity. This festival showcases our
thriving, musically vibrant city to the watching world - an
accomplishment of the highest degree.
Founder, Greg Lowenhagen and company have once again brought
the best and brightest from today and yesteryear to Raleigh for three nights
of boundless musical entertainment and exposure to what's new.
Headliners performing at Raleigh City Plaza this year include:
- Scotland's The Jesus and Mary Chain, a defining force of alternative music from the 1980's and on.
- Equally influential among the alternative rock scene, New Jersey's Yo La Tengo.
- The ever so loud and brilliant Built To Spill.
- From The Books Nick Zammuto's new act, Zammuto.
- The Roots!
- Funkdified, electrified 17 piece ensemble, Escort.
The other hundred or so bands will perform inside our many clubs, music venues and concert halls in the downtown area.
Can't be missed @ HOPSCOTCH 2012:
