THE VILLAGE VOICE ANNOUNCES INITIAL LINE UP FOR 4KNOTS MUSIC FESTIVAL
The Drums, Crocodiles, Hospitality, Bleached, Nick Waterhouse Confirmed To Play MORE TO BE ANNOUNCED
Festival To Be Held Saturday July 14, 2012 At The South Street Seaport Piers 16 & 17
May 16, 2012 - New York, NY – The Village Voice, the nation’s largest alternative weekly newspaper, is thrilled to announce the initial line-up for the 4Knots Music Festival at the South Street Seaport, Piers 16 & 17 on Saturday, July 14, 2012 from 1:00 – 8:00 PM. The Drums, Crocodiles, Hospitality, Bleached, Nick Waterhouse are scheduled to perform, plus more to be announced.
The Village Voice has also announced that 4Knots Music Festival will expand this year to include Piers 16 and 17 with a second outdoor side stage confirmed. Expanding to Pier 16 will allow the 4Knots Music Festival to include more performers this year. The second annual 4Knots Music Festival will be free, open to all ages, and held rain or shine. The event will feature renowned and emerging artists from today’s music scene performing live all day in front of what is sure to be yet again an extremely large and enthusiastic audience. Even more details are still to be announced in coming weeks.
Running between every borough of New York City and culminating near the South Street Seaport, the East River runs at a speed of “4 knots”. The neighborhood where the 4Knots Music Festival is held offers attractions, shops and restaurants for every taste. It is easily accessible by subway, car, ferry or bus.
Bud Light returns to the 4Knots Music Festival as the presenting sponsor. Additional 2012 sponsors include Metro PCS, Pisco Porton, PopChips, Beekman Beer Garden Beach Club, Seaport Music Festival and the South Street Seaport Museum.
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About The Village Voice: Founded by Dan Wolf, Ed Fancher, and Norman Mailer in October 1955, The Village Voice introduced free-form, high-spirited and passionate journalism into the public discourse. As the nation's first and largest alternative newsweekly, the Voice maintains the same tradition of no-holds-barred reporting and criticism it first embraced when it began publishing over fifty years ago. The recipient of three Pulitzer prizes, the National Press Foundation Award, and the George Polk Award, among others, the Voice has earned a reputation for its groundbreaking investigations of New York City politics, and as the premier expert on New York's cultural scene. Writing and reporting on local and national politics, with opinionated arts, culture, music, dance, film and theater reviews, daily web dispatches, comprehensive entertainment listings, and unrivaled classifieds, the Voice is the authoritative source on all that is New York.
The Village Voice has also created such celebrated events as the Obies Awards, Brooklyn Pour, Choice Eats, Web Awards, Choice Streets, 4Knots Music Festival as well as the most anticipated issues and guides of the year including the annual Pazz and Jop music poll, Best of NYC, and its Spring, Summer, and Fall Preview guides, the Voice is New York's most influential must-read alternative newspaper in print and online at www.villagevoice.com where the site averages 2 million unique users each month.