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.......................................................................... 22 Latch String Bar & Grill ........................................................................ 11 Middle Waves Festival ......................................................................Insert Making a Bigger Splash Mitchell’s Sports & Neighborhood Grill ............................................. 10 By Steve Penhollow ried over from last year to this. of those musical forms. musiConnect ........................................................................................... 17 Most festivals in Headwaters Park West The headline act this year, MGMT, a NIGHTLIFE ........................................................................................10-13 In its short history, Middle Waves has be- use the main pavilion for musical perfor- psychedelic pop band known to most for come as important to Fort Wayne as Stone- mances. their singles, “Electric Feel” and “Time to Northside Galleries .................................................................................. 3 henge is to Wiltshire, England. Middle Waves uses it as a village for Pretend.” Pacific Coast Concerts ............................................................................ 5 Okay, perhaps not. But I had to find a food trucks and sellers of wares. Other national acts scheduled to perform Rusty Spur Saloon ................................................................................... 3 cheesy way to segue into the news that Mid- This strategy not only kept people out of at this year’s Middle Waves include Thao & dle Waves will have rock sculptures this year the rain last year, but it kept them on their The Get Down Stay Down, Super Duper Sweetwater Sound ....................................................................2, 11, 24 (among other delights). toes. Kyle, Shannon & The Clams, The Lemon Teds Market ............................................................................................ 10 The 2017 edition of the non-profit mu- Which is to say, it made them see Head- Twigs, Flint Eastwood and Selector Dub WBOI 89.1 FM ....................................................................................... 23 sic festival happens September 15 and 16 in waters Park West in a different