2012 Carrboro Music Festival 2012 15Th Annual

2012 GUIDE TO THE CARRBORO MUSIC FESTIVAL

Sunday, September 30, 2012 Inside: Schedule and venues, festival info and lots more! Here’s to Janet Place and The Great Big Gone at the Weave, Jon Christie and Baffle at Southern Rail, and Rachel Kiel at The Music Loft.

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It is my pleasure to invite you to the 15th Annual Carrboro Music Festival. Mark Welcome to the 15th Annual Carrboro Music Festival! Take a walk around town your calendars for Sunday, Sept. 30. I welcome you to come out and enjoy our on Sunday, Sept. 30 and enjoy a day jam-packed full of music. You can hear hip- unique, free, one-of-a-kind event. As always, there will be a wonderfully diverse hop, country, blues, rock, Celtic, world music, bluegrass, jazz and more – and variety of performers, at both indoor and outdoor venues, all over town. all within the seven or eight blocks of downtown Carrboro! Take a look at the I am so grateful to all the musicians, as well as the many volunteers and staff, festival website at carrboromusicfestival.com for their energy and dedication behind the scenes. Thanks to the mayor and the Carrboro Board of Aldermen for their continuing I look forward to seeing you there! support and the various Carrboro departments that make this possible: Recreation Mark Chilton & Parks, Public Works, Police and Fire. Mayor of Carrboro Gerry Williams Carrboro Music Festival coordinator

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Carrboro Music Festival 2012 carrborocitizen.com + SEPTEMBEr 2012 3 Students can receive Service Learning hours, and all volunteers will get a free festival T-shirt and a free raffle ticket. Check out the volunteer page at 2012 Carrboro the festival website. Music Festival Raffle Tickets and T-shirts Founding festival committee member and musician Janet Place has created a special design for this year’s 15th annual Carrboro Music Festival. We have incorporated it into commemorative T-shirts, which can be purchased Planning at all four information tables for $10. Posters will be available at the table on Weaver Street next to the Carrboro Century Center. Tickets for the annual raffle (which not only has something for just about everyone but also features a greater chance of winning than just about any raffle you’ll ever see) can also be purchased at those tables. Tickets are $1 Committee each or six for $5. Winners will be drawn the week following the event and will be notified by phone. Coordinator: Gerry Williams* Carrboro Recreation & Parks: Info Tables Rah Trost, Dennis Joines The Information Tables are at the following locations from 1 to 6 p.m.: Volunteers: • Town Commons Charlie Berry, Catherine DeVine*, Tony Galiani, Michael • Carrboro Century Center (Weaver Street side) • Weaver Street Market lawn Gowan, Jackie Helvey*, Meg McGurk and Janet Place* • Cat’s Cradle (outside)

* Carrboro Music Festival founders This publication is provided by The Carrboro Citizen – Activities/Food/Crafts your local newspaper since 2007. Robert Dickson The Town Commons will feature a number of different activities, including a children’s craft table from 2-4 p.m. Participants will use a Publisher variety of recycled materials to create fun, unique musical instruments, Susan Dickson from drums to kazoos! Editor Crafts booths and specialty food vendors will also be in the area around Carrboro Town Hall – check them out! Food vendors include Duncan Hoge Captain Poncho’s, Big City Sandwiches, Antie Mae’s, Capp’s Pizza, Tar Layout & Design Heel Creamery and Little Dipper. Marty Cassady Craft vendors include: Designs By Helayne, Four Legged Flamingo, Carved Tones, Carolina Moon, Deliza Designs, Scavenger Designs, Chalfonte Advertising Sales Birdhouses, Leopold Designs, Chinwag Designs, Really Pretty Cardinals, DE Andrews Silversmith, Butterfly Paints, Erin Griffin Silversmith, Silvan Song, Auroa Metal Works, Wood Child, Indigo Arts, and Bondi Studio. Health Source of Chapel Hill will offer free chair massages. Paws4ever and The Art of Cool Project will be on hand to offer information about their organizations. Information All of these activities are right next to the Town Commons stage, where six wonderful bands will provide the music, so you won’t miss a note. Free Transportation Foul Weather Plan A free biodiesel shuttle bus will run back and forth between the Carrboro Plaza park-and-ride lot and downtown from noon until 8 p.m. The park-and- Ten of the 25 venues are either indoors or can move indoors, so music at ride lot is behind the center of Carrboro Plaza. these venues will continue rain or shine. In the case of a possible day-long A map of the route is available online at carrboromusicfestival.com rain, the Festival Committee and the Police and Public Works will make a decision concerning the viability of the outdoor venues by 9:30 a.m. on the day of the festival. Southern Rail’s Front Porch and Milltown will make their Volunteer on Festival Day! own call. The N.C. Songwriters’ Stage at The Southern Rail Beer Garden will move to the Town Hall Board Room. Want to be a part of this incredible community event? You can do that If changes occur to the current performance schedule, they will be while making new friends or hanging out with old ones. Help out backstage, announced on the Carrboro Recreation & Parks Department weather line, assist with traffic direction and parking or work at an information table. which can be reached at (919) 918-7373. Those are but a few of the ways that you can help while still hearing an awful lot of music.

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7:00 Onjukai – Contemporary/Traditional Japanese Music Schedule8:00 Big Celtic Fun Tim Smith and Eileen Regan and Friends – 9:00 Crystal Bright & the Silver Hands – Indie World Folk Armadillo Grill Auto Logic/Peck and Artisans/Carrboro Music 120 E. Main St. – upstairs 204 W. Main St. 1:00 Tony Low – Folk Rock 1:15 Spiralfire – Rock 2:00 Bearded Folk – Folk/Blues 2:15 Doombunny – Alternative Rock & Roll 3:00 Patrick Blackburn with Matt Stutzman – Acoustic 3:15 The Lids – Classic Rock & Roll Singer-Songwriter 4:15 Motrendus – Original Hard Rock 4:00 Dave Laukaitis – Indie Folk-Rock 5:15 Tercer Divisa Nacional – Rock: English & Español 5:00 The Hillbilly Hipsters – Folkabilly 6:15 Catie King – Pop-Rock 6:00 Rebekah Todd – Folk/Blues 7:00 Lamont Coal – Electronic Balanced Movement Studio 304 W. Weaver St. (upstairs) The ArtsCenter (Earl & Rhoda Wynn Theater) 1:00 ASCAB NC – Capoeira: Brazilian Music and Movement 300-G E. Main St. 2:00 Gene Lloyd – Original Folk 6:15 Tony Galiani – Upstream Jazz 3:00 Jewelsong – A cappella, Ambient, New Age 7:15 The Bradshaw Quartet – Contemporary Jazz, Bebop, R&B 4:00 Shawn Deena – Acoustic Alternative 8:15 Frankie Alexander and Friends – Jazz Standards 5:00 Tea Cup Gin – Vintage Vocal Jazz 9:15 Kevin Van Sant – Jazz 6:00 Hearts of Knotty Pine – Folk/Americana/Bluegrass The ArtsCenter (West End Theater) 7:00 Skylark – Celtic Stage Sponsor: Realtor Logan A. Carter Balloons & Tunes/Framer’s Corner 300-G E. Main St. 208 W. Main St. 3:00 Gypsy Town – Original Southern Folk-Rock 1:00 Kitty Box & The Johnnys – Hayseed Torch Surf 4:00 Wildflower – Folk/Traditional 2:00 Off the Road Band – Americana 5:00 Barrowburn – Celtic Folk 3:00 Southern Routes – Carrbor-ibean Music: R&R Through New Orleans 6:00 Steph Stewart and the Boyfriends – Folk-Americana 4:00 Dry River Trio – Folk, Bluegrass

6 carrborocitizen.com + SEPTEMBEr 2012 Carrboro Music Festival 2012 5:00 Fat Bastard Blues Band – Blues 3:00 Gary Mitchell – Rock, Pop 6:00 The Melobellies – Indie-Rock 4:00 Patrick Turner – Rock 5:00 Gretyl C – Acoustic Pop-Rock Cat’s Cradle 6:00 Jeremy Gilchrist – Folk Alternative 300 E. Main St. 3:30 Tain Collins Band – Rock Jessee’s Coffee and Bar 4:30 Dark Water Rising – Americana/Folk/Indie 401 E. Main St. 5:30 Todd Jones and Money vs. People – Alternative Pop 1:00 Curtis Eller’s American Circus – Banjo Music for Funerals/Social Gatherings 6:30 Stranger Spirits – Mad Scientist/Robot Girl Rock 2:00 7:30 Tin Can Sailor – Indie Rock Viva la Venus – Rock 3:00 8:30 Triple Fret – Rock, World & Jazz Lud – Rock, Americana 4:00 9:30 Archbishops of Blount Street – Ska/Reggae/Rock Justin Johnson – Slide Blues, Cigar Box & Gypsy Jazz 5:00 10:30 Toon and The Real Laww – Pop Hop Funktion – Funk, Jazz, Fusion 6:00 State of Illusion – Modern Rock Carrboro Century Center 7:00 HONEYCHILE – Rock, Funk, Soul Stage Sponsor: Franklin Street Realty Stage 8:00 The Pinkerton Raid – Outlaw Pop 100 N. Greensboro St Looking Glass CafE 1:00 Magnolia Klezmer Band – Klezmer 601 W. Main St. 2:00 Erich Lieth and One Sun – World Beat Jazz 1:00 Jamie Purnell – Americana/Roots 3:00 Capital Transit – Jazz (Manhattan Transfer-style) 2:00 Carrborators – Americana 4:00 Mimosa Winds – Classical, Show Tunes, Jazz 3:00 Durham Ukulele Orchestra – 1920s Standards to Classic & Modern Rock 5:00 The Mighty Gospel Inspirations – A cappella “Golden Age” Gospel Quartet 4:00 Something For Now – Alt. Rock, Blues 6:00 Sawyer-Goldberg Jazz – Improvisational Jazz Standards 5:00 Bubba Joe and The Bruisers – Surf Punk/Psychobilly 7:00 Skeedaddle – 1920s-’30s Swing & Hokum 6:00 Parafilm – Indie-Rock 8:00 The JazzTones – Jazz Standards, Bossa Nova, Latin 9:00 Marie Vanderbeck Trio – Jazz Milltown Schedule Fifth Season Gardening/Glasshalfull 307 E. Main St. 106 S. Greensboro St. 3:00 Mark Holland – Blues 4:00 Onward Soldiers – Roots-Rock 1:00 HWYL – Celtic Rock 5:00 TOW3RS – Psych-Rock 2:00 Trip McCool and The Old School – Irish American 6:00 Magnolia Collective – Americana/Folk/Twang 3:00 Rough Cut – Bluegrass 7:00 Ben Davis and the Jetts – Rock & Roll 4:00 Blue Tailed Skinks – Old-Time Tunes 8:00 Midnight Plus One – Punk 5:00 New Sweat – Pop, Rock, Blues 6:00 Big Fat Gap – Carrboro Bluegrass Music Loft/Nightsound Studios 7:00 Killer Filler – Lounge-a-delic Recording Artists’ Stage Fitch Lumber Company Teen Stage 116 W. Main St. Stage Sponsors: Double Decker Bus Music/Music & Arts/ 1:00 Rachel Kiel – Melancholy Harmonies & Rollicking Strings Mobile Stages 2:00 Rafael Green – Psych Folk & Ghostly Tenor Voice 309 N. Greensboro St. 3:00 Virgins – High Priests of Tribal Double Drum Kit Rhythm and Drifting Harmony 1:00 The Bucket Brothers 4:00 Henbrain – Basses Power Landscapes & Gutsy She-Demon Vocals 1:45 Subculture Danger 5:00 Morning Brigade – Autumnal, Epic, Indie Folk-Rock 2:30 Sevryn Schaller Open Eye Cafe 3:15 Completely Off Balance 101 S. Greensboro St. 4:00 Emerson Waldorf Jazz Band 1:00 Ladies of the Lake – Celtic 4:45 The Shy Guys 2:00 Ape Foot Groove – Funk 5:30 Right of Way 3:00 Scarlet Virginia – Folk/Rock 6:15 The Cardinal Faults 4:00 Con Acento – World Beat/Latin Groove/Acoustic 7:00 Tyler “Firehead” Thigpen 5:00 Ashe – Alternative Singer-Songwriter Frank Cole Building Co. 6:00 Sea Cow – Rock/Pop/Americana 101 Center St. (front porch) 7:00 See No Weevil – Blues/Rock 1:00 Dan Pelletier – Acoustic/Folk-Rock/Americana 8:00 The Chatterin’ Teeth – Original Rock 2:00 Joseph North – Indie Folk-Rock 9:00 The Fields of Mars – Alternative/Ambient Rock/Psychedelic

Carrboro Music Festival 2012 carrborocitizen.com + SEPTEMBEr 2012 7 7:30 Vagabond Union – Alt-Country/Americana 9:00 Fantastico! – Blues/Rock The Station 210 E. Main St. 1:00 Butter – Rock/Funk 2:00 CarrBros – Folk-Rock 3:00 Tokyo Rosenthal – Americana 4:00 Lucky’s Starlight Lounge – Jazz standards and Lounge 5:00 mahaloJazz – Smokin’ Straight-ahead Jazz Schedule 6:00 The Infidels – Barroom Rock & Roll CONTINUED 7:00 Anna Rose Beck – Folk, Singer-Songwriter PNC Bank 8:00 The Banana Seats – Three-Minute Pop Songs 9:00 The Breaks – Original Rock 300 W. Weaver St. 10:00 Puritan Rodeo – Roots Rock, Americana 1:00 Gentle Robot – Rock & Roll 11:00 Debonzo Brothers – Rock/Americana 2:00 Beauty Operators – Blues 3:00 Graymatter – Acoustic Rock Town Commons 4:00 Mangosteen – Rock Stage Sponsor: Weaver Street Realty 5:00 Radar’s Clowns of Sedation – Blues, Soul & Twang 301 W. Main St. 6:00 Rhonda Robichaux Band – New Orleans Blues, Jazz and Funk 1:00 N.C. Saxophone Ensemble – Classical, Traditional & Contemporary 2nd Wind Saloon 2:00 Barleycorn & Rye – Irish and American Roots Music 118 E. Main St. 3:00 Mipso – Folk/Americana/Bluegrass/Roots 4:00 The Hey Brothers – Bluegrass 1:15 Tampa Blue – Delta & Piedmont Blues 5:00 The Crossroads Collective – Acoustic Rock/Gospel 2:15 Summerglen – Original Trombone/Marimba Pop 6:00 Tim Smith Band – World Music for the Soul, Soul Music for the World! 3:15 Near-Blind James & Harmonica Bob – Piedmont Blues, Ragtime, Hokum & Gospel 4:15 Hendecatope – Atmospheric Instrumental Electronica Tyler’s Parking Lot 5:15 Quiet the Voices – Singer-Songwriter/Folk 102 E. Main St. 6:15 Battlestar Canada – Experimental/Rock/Electronica 2:00 Turntable Graveyard – Epic Rock 7:15 Skippy Skip – Alternative Rap/Creative Rock 3:00 Milagro Saints – Roots Rock 4:00 Stratocruiser – Rock Southern Rail Beer Garden 5:00 Too Much Fun – R&B N.C. Songwriters’ Stage 6:00 Pagan Hellcats – Original Americana 201 E. Main St. 7:00 Gasoline Stove – Americana 1:00 Frank Princiotta & Mark Knox 8:00 Saludos Compay – Latin Music for Dancing and Listening 1:30 David Bultman 2:00 Sherry Lea WCOM Radio 2:30 Amber Dutton 208 E. Main St. 3:00 Geoff Gilson & Eric Bannan 1:15 Dogwood Blossom – Americana, Folk 3:30 Mary Rocap 2:15 Mebanesville – Roots, Rhythm and World Music 4:00 Emily Musolino 3:15 Down River – Bluegrass 4:30 Ace and T-Bone 4:15 Mudbones Blues Review – Blues/R&B Dance Band 5:00 Brooke McBride 5:15 Multiples – Rock with Socio/Political Overtones 5:30 Jason Derrick 6:15 Cavalry – Alternative 6:00 Bob Funck Weaver Street Market 6:30 Pete Leary & Tom V. 101 E. Weaver St. Southern Rail Front Porch 1:15 Sad Magazine – Rootsy Pop-Rock 201 E. Main St. 2:15 Tubby Ridge – Swingy Bluegrass 1:00 Baffle – Jazz/Funk/Groove 3:15 Bluegrass Battleship – Bluegrass 2:00 Mike Blair and the Stonewalls – Americana/Rock 4:15 Great Big Gone – Americana 3:30 Neil Cribbs – Folk/Americana/Rock 5:15 Caribe Vibe – Salsa/Latin Jazz 5:00 Saints Apollo – Folk/Indie-Pop 6:15 Jo Gore and The Alternative – R&B/Rock/Jazz 6:00 Jack the Radio – Southern/Indie-Rock

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19 Armadillo Grill 23 Fifth Season Gardening/ 5 PNC Bank 15 ArtsCenter Glasshalfull 20 2nd Wind Sports Saloon (Earl & Rhoda Wynn Stage) 7 Fitch Lumber 11 Southern Rail Beer Garden 16 ArtsCenter (West End Theater) 6 Frank Cole Building Co. 12 Southern Rail (Front porch) 25 Auto Logic/ 14 Jesse’s Coffee and Bar Peck and Artisans/Carrboro Music 10 The Station 1 Looking Glass 2 Town Commons 4 Balanced Movement Studio 13 Milltown 21 Tyler’s (parking lot) 3 Balloons & Tunes/Framers Corner 24 Music Loft/ 18 WCOM 17 Cats Cradle Nightsound Recording Studio 9 Weaver St (Lawn) 8 Carrboro Century Center 22 Open Eye CAFE Craft Vendors location will be at Town Commons (2)

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