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MORE MUSIC MORE FOOD MGMT MORE BARS SIDEWALK CHALK MORE EXPERIENCES THAO & THE GET DOWN 4 Stage Lineups & Artist Bios MORE MOMENTUM STAY DOWN 7 Stage Schedule 8 Festival Map & Vendors MORE MIDDLE WAVES 10 Mini Waves Middle Waves Music Festival returns to Headwaters Park on Friday, September 15th and Saturday, September 16th for two days of Fort SHANNON & THE CLAMS 11 Ticket & Volunteer Info Wayne putting its best fort forward. We’re here to celebrate the momentum in our corner of the Midwest: 12 Vibe Activities & VVIP Info the music, art, food and positive vibes that breathe life into our fair city, and keep us wide awake well after the sun goes down. 14 FAQs & Pre-Party Info We’re non-profi t and volunteer-driven, because we believe in this community, this region, its people and its curiosity and its appetite and its sense of adventure and very specifi cally, because THE LEMON TWIGS we believe in you, Fort Wayne. Rivers are rising. #NoFilter #MiddleWaves Energy is rising. You know that saying, “Pic or it didn’t happen!”? We don’t love it, either, but you’ll probably want to Volume is rising. tell the world about your Middle Waves memories. HASHTAG UP! THIS IS MIDDLE WAVES. @MiddleWavesFW @MiddleWavesFW 2 3 @MiddleWaves #MiddleWaves Located on the east side of Headwaters Park, the St. Marys Stage, THE LINEUP: The Maumee Stage is located in the natural amphitheatre on the presented by Parkview Health, is our main stage and home to THE LINEUP: west side of Headwaters Park, and in 2017 is home to even more unique vibe experiences, our VVIP lounge and one very, very large food, bars, vendors and experiences. The Maumee Stage is free ST. MARYS MAIN STAGE video wall. This stage requires a ticket/wristband for entry. and requires no ticket/wristband. PRESENTED BY PARKVIEW HEALTH (Kids 12 and under free with paid adult.) MAUMEE STAGE MGMT THAO & THE GET DOWN SIDEWALK CHALK FLINT EASTWOOD SELECTOR DUB NARCOTIC SAM EVIAN Dance / Rock / Psychedelic STAY DOWN Hip-Hop Dance Pop (CALVIN JOHNSON) Indie Pop New York City, NY Indie Pop / Folk Rock Chicago, IL Detroit, MI Electronic / Dub Disco Brooklyn, NY Saturday, 9:15PM, St. Marys Stage San Fransciso, CA Saturday, 7PM, St. Marys Stage Friday, 8:30PM, Maumee Stage Olympia, WA Saturday, 7:15PM, Maumee Stage Friday, 9:45PM, St. Marys Stage Saturday, 5:45PM, Maumee Stage Middle Waves Music Festival 2017 headliner Bringing its magnetic hip-hop meets With a lush sound that jumps genres from Sam Evian released his ethereally MGMT burst onto the scene in 2008 with Thao & The Get Down Stay Down bring Bay jazz-soul-funk approach to the St. Marys synth-pop to electronic to even bombastic Selector Dub Narcotic is Calvin beautiful, guitar-driven dream pop album Oracular Spectacular on Columbia Records, Area energy, enthusiasm and eclecticism to stage, Chicago ensemble Sidewalk rock ‘n’ roll, Flint Eastwood artfully ties Johnson’s alias for performing undeniably Premium on Saddle Creek Records in achieving audio ubiquity with hits “Kids,” Middle Waves as Friday night’s headliner. Chalk delivers all the sounds, with an her encyclopedic infl uences together fun party-starting anthems. Perhaps the September, 2016. After spending the year “Electric Feel,” “Time to Pretend” and more, Led by multi-instrumentalist and singer MC, jazz vocalist, horns, live band and with a driven, dazzling and uncompromising most infl uential performer to play Middle touring with the likes of Whitney, Teenage along with Grammy nods and worldwide Thao Nguyen, The Get Down Stay Down dancing galore. stage show. Waves, Johnson is best known for Fanclub and Luna, Sam and band are accolades. In June 2017, the band have won over audiences worldwide with founding K Records and International emerging from the studio where they’re announced their new record is fi nished their undeniable hooks and charisma. RISING OVER ENVY (R.O.E.) ANDY D Pop Overthrow, and performing in recording Premium’s follow-up, for a short and imminently due. Expect audio/visual Hip-Hop Rap / Performance Beat Happening. tour culminating at Middle Waves. Chicago, IL greatness on the St. Marys Stage. SHANNON AND THE CLAMS Indianapolis, IN Indie Rock Saturday, 1:30PM, St. Marys Stage Saturday, 8:45PM, Maumee Stage MIKE ADAMS THE MURDERBURGERS THE LEMON TWIGS Oakland, CA Pop Punk R.O.E. (Rising Over Envy) is the nom-de- AT HIS HONEST WEIGHT Indie Pop In his own words, Andy D “sounds like Indie Rock Glasgow, Scotland Friday, 7:45PM, St. Marys Stage rap for Roosevelt Sledge, Jr., a can’t-miss Long Island, NY Andrew WK meets Grand Master Melle Bloomington, IN Saturday, 2:45PM, Maumee Stage emcee who combines an urban edge and Saturday, 5PM, St. Marys Stage Indie darlings Shannon and the Clams Mel”—and you know what? That’s pretty dazzling lyricism with a true joy for the Friday, 7PM, Maumee Stage perform garage rock that winks at doo-wop accurate. One part rock-pop, one part hip- Scotland’s fi nest-ever punk rock export, beauty of live performance. The Lemon Twigs are led by singing, and blows a kiss to 60s girl groups. With hop-dance, all parts off-the-wall songwriting Mike Adams at His Honest Weight are The Murderburgers play ‘em fast & songwriting, multi-instrumentalist brothers, that leaves no stone unturned. anthemic, raucous & razor-sharp. They’re chiming guitars, rolling bass and some DIARRHEA PLANET a six-piece from Bloomington who craft Brian and Michael D’Addario, who craft brilliant and pure power-pop masterpieces, explosive, they’re smart, they’re here to of the festival’s best vocals, expect to be Guitar Rock delectably beautiful power-pop that’s one charm and disarm. It’s ‘Burger time. joining on the chorus by the end of the Nashville, TN SLEEPING BAG and deliver ‘em in one of the most life- part Beatles, one part Big Star. The Twigs second number. Indie Rock affi rming stage shows of the decade. spent the summer on the festival circuit— Saturday, 3:15PM, St. Marys Stage Indianapolis, IN RIYL: awesome music, smiling. CITY MOUSE Coachella, Outside Lands, Lollapalooza, Pop Punk SILBO GOMERO Nashville’s Diarrhea Planet hits like Saturday, 1:15PM, Maumee Stage Austin City Limits—and they’ll arrive at FWA Riverside, CA Chamber Pop a tidal wave—their four-guitar attack of LEFT LANE CRUISER fresh from a tour with Phoenix. Saturday, 11:45AM, Maumee Stage Fort Wayne, IN power-pop and pop-punk is giddy and This slacker trio from Indianapolis performs Blues / Rock melodic, 90s-esque indie rock that is Fort Wayne, IN Saturday, 12PM, St. Marys Stage unstoppable, and irresistible fun. And Led by Miski Dee, City Mouse have instantaneously infectious. Fuzzy ‘n’ buzzy. ROSALIND & THE WAY yes, we understand: depending on your Saturday, 4:15PM, Maumee Stage bounced around the country performing Americana Silbo Gomero, the eclectic sound project of constitution, they’re either the best- or MY APOLLO pop punk ragers, distinguished by Dee’s Fort Wayne, IN local artists Hope Arthur and Kurt Roembke, worst-named band at the festival. Founded in Fort Wayne, yet known the Pop / Rock soulful and powerful vocals. Catch their Friday, 6:00PM, St. Marys Stage will kick off Saturday’s St. Marys Stage world over, Left Lane Cruiser plays foot- Join their guitar party and decide later. Fort Wayne, IN latest on It’s Alive Records. lineup with their riveting music, combined stompin’ dirty blues that sounds like a Fort Wayne’s Rosalind & The Way made with accompaniment by real-time virtual Friday, 5:30PM, Maumee Stage shockwave on every 12-bar turnaround. their debut two summers ago, in solo reality painting. Featuring Freddy J IV on guitar My Apollo is a seven-piece art-rock band performances by singer and songwriter, and vocals, and Pete Dio on drums, from Fort Wayne. The band’s concept- SAM EVIAN Cassie Beer. Now a fi ve-piece, the band the duo tours relentlessly. performs beautiful original songs in venues driven songs—many recorded at Off the around the region, and is releasing its new Cuff Music—come to life via ambitious art EP, What You Keep, at Middle Waves. and video formats, and over-the-top live performances. MIKE ADAMS AT HIS HONEST 4 WEIGHT 5 R.O.E. DIARRHEA PLANET New for 2017, the St. Joseph Stage is both larger and more FRIDAY SATURDAY THE LINEUP: prominently located, in the northernmost lawn of Headwaters Park ST. MARYS MAUMEE ST. JOSEPH ST. MARYS MAUMEE ST. JOSEPH TIME STAGE STAGE STAGE TIME STAGE STAGE STAGE West. The St. Joseph Stage shares food bars and vendors with the Wristband Required No Wristband Required No Wristband Required Wristband Required No Wristband Required No Wristband Required 11:30AM ST. JOSEPH STAGE Maumee Stage and is free and requires no ticket/wristband. 5:00PM 5:15PM 11:45AM City Mouse 5:30PM 12:00PM 11:45–12:30PM My Apollo Pop-Punk • Riverside, CA 5:45PM 5:30–6:15PM 12:15PM Silbo Gomero Pop/Rock • Fort Wayne, IN 12:00–1:00PM 6:00PM 12:30PM Chamber Pop • Fort Wayne, IN Belle & The Strange RADIO JAROCHO TWICEYOUNG LOVE HUSTLER 6:15PM Rosalind & The Way 12:45PM Flamingo Nosebleed 12:30–1:15PM 6:00–7:00PM Folk Rock • Fort Wayne, IN Indie Pop Electro-Funk 6:30PM & ZENEN ZEFERINO Folk Rock • Fort Wayne, IN 6:15–7:00PM 1:00PM Philadelphia, PA Fort Wayne, IN Punk Rock • Fort Wayne, IN Son Jarocho / Fandango 6:45PM 1:15PM Queens, NY Saturday, 8:15PM, St. Joseph Stage Saturday, 6:30PM, St.