OS T place at Rough Creek Ranch in Glen Rose and featured The Secret Machines, L O Bowling for Soup, Ben Kweller, Eleven Hundred Springs and of course the A E Toadies. The last three years, Dia De Los Toadies has taken up residence D at White Water Amphitheater in New Braunfels. Last year’s fi fth anniver- D sary festival featured the strongest lineup and for the fi rst year, included a
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D with our fans, and each other. I love that you can hear some quiet acoustic stuff, some country-ish honkey-tonk stuff, and of course, lots of Texas rock S 3 E P 01 and roll.” With the lineups getting better and better every year, we expect T E M 4, 2 F O B E R 13-1 S R T X A W O R T H , T E the sixth annual festival to be DFW’s best music festival of 2013! SEPTEMBER 13-14, 2013 about PantheR island PaVilion PANTHER ISLAND PAVILION Panther Island Pavilion is a scenic FORT WORTH, TEXAS outdoor venue on the Trinity River with the downtown Fort Worth sky- about dia de los toadies line as a backdrop. The venue hosts an annual summer tubing event se- “Willie’s picnic for a new generation” is how the Austin Chronicle de- ries, the city’s largest Fourth of July scribed Dia De Los Toadies, an annual concert hosted by Toadies. Toadies event, as well as many other concerts guitarist Clark Vogeler says, “Dia keeps getting better every year. Last year’s and festivals. A unique white sand festival was without a doubt the best weekend of the year. It always feels beach provides public access to the like a big family reunion with a great soundtrack.” river for boating, tubing, fi shing and 2013’s Dia De Los Toadies moves to the Toadies hometown of Fort Worth swimming. Kayak and paddleboard the weekend of September 14, and will take place at Panther Island Pavil- concessionaries are located on site ion. This year’s show will kick off with an intimate evening with Toadies – year-round. fl ipped, stripped and deconstructed on the night of Friday, September 13 and will lead into a full day of music on September 14. Now in its sixth successful year, Dia De Los Toadies has taken place at several venues around the state including Possum Kingdom Lake, where the festival was fi rst held Labor Day weekend of 2008. The show was an incred- ible success, selling out in advance. The second Dia De Los Toadies took
PRESENTED BY Toadies and sonar ManageMenT DiaDEloSToaDiES.com OS T Past event partners include Dos Equis, Red Bull, Whole Foods, Twang, L O Frank’s, Deep Eddy, Vitamin Water, Taco Deli, Honest Tea, Yelp, Enchanted A E Rock Vodka, Rebecca Creek Whiskey, Man Bites Dog, and The Root Cellar. D D
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PRESENTED BY Toadies and Sonar Management diadelostoadies.com OS T “Fourteen years have passed since Vaden Todd Lewis first haunted radio L O waves with his Do you wanna die? mantra. Despite band breakups, label A E woes and plastic guitars, the Toadies still sound as toady as ever.” D –Pitch Weekly D
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“Willie’s picnic for a new generation” –Austin Chronicle
“This veteran band just seems to get better with age and their namesake festival, Dia De Los Toadies, grows and improves with each year. The band has created one of the best concert-going experiences of the whole year in Texas. Start watching your back now, ACL Fest.” –Our Vinyl
“No Deliverance, the Texas based alterna-rockers’ first studio effort in Dia De Los Toadies V - Whitewater Amphitheater 2012 seven years, is an absolute barn burner completely justifying the hype built up around a reunion tour that sizzled its way across the country this summer.” –Billboard
“Who wants Toadies to change? Communists that’s who.” –Alternative Press
“The fact that these guys can reunite and crank out material that’s just as relevant now as it was then is a solid testament to their craft.” –Spin Dia De Los Toadies V - 2012 Dia De Los Toadies V - 2012
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