Music writer Mike Breen (of the MidPoint Music Festival sponsored e-zine CityBeat) recently unveiled the headliners who will be performing every Friday night throughout the summer on Fountain Square, for PNC’s Indie Summer Concert Series. MidPoint director, Dan McCabe, announced a few of these acts a few weeks back at the Reveal Showcase at the Contemporary Arts Center, which featured performances from Aloha!, The Buried Wires and locals, Pomegranates.
One of the best ways for local music fans to spend their Friday nights during the summer without paying a dime, is on Fountain Square, where you can catch a few of the best local acts and up-and-coming national acts. It should be a crime to be able to see some of these bands for free.
It’s clearly the most talented and diverse bill that they’ve ever put together, so one would assume that this will also extend to the actual MidPoint Music Festival that will be held on the final weekend of September, all throughout downtown Cincinnati, Over the Rhine and Newport, Kentucky.
Start clearing your calenders, it’s gonna be a summer to remember! Here’s the lineup and schedule as of now. More bands will be announced in the coming weeks.
June 4
Scottish Indie-Pop band, Camera Obscura
June 11
Austin, Texas’ Electro-Synth Pop band, Neon Indian, will be coming fresh off of their debut at the Bonnaroo Music Festival, where they are playing June 10
June 18
Former Drive-By Truckers guitarist and co-songwriter, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit
June 25
Legendary Pop-Punk crooners, The Smoking Popes
July 2
Local Indie-Pop quartet, Pomegranates
July 9
Experimental/Indie-Rock and Hip-Hop act Why? from Oakland by way of Cincinnati
July 16
Local Electronica-Dance/Experimental duo of Yusef Quotah and Kevin Bayer, You,You’re Awesome
July 23
Local Indie-Rock legends, Wussy
July 30
One man band, Bob Log III, who plays guitar and drums at the same time, and local Experimental/Indie-Pop band, Eat Sugar
August 6
Soon to be the next breakout Indie-Folk/Roots act, Dawes
August 13
Local blues and garage rockers, the Buffalo Killers and Lions Rampant
August 20
Experimental/Indie-Rock duo Bad Veins (or trio, depending on whether or not you want to count Irene, their reel-to-reel tape player)
August 27
Local legend and founding Greenhorne singer and guitarist, Brian Olive, who is getting ready to go on the road with The Black Keys
September 3
West Coast Indie-Rock band, We Are Scientists