Third and Final Day of MidPoint 2009
The third and final day of the 2009 MidPoint Music Festival came much too quickly, while the first two days remain just a fuzzy memory of the past. For me personally, I was looking forward to the final night the most because it featured most of the bands I was looking forward to on [...]
Posts Tagged ‘The Do’
MidPoint Day Three Review
Posted: 27th September 2009 by nate in MidPoint Music FestivalTags: Chairlift, Micachu and the Shapes, MidPoint Music Festival, The Do, The Rosewood Theives, The Trouble With Boys, Yourself and the Air
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30 Bands I Want to See at MidPoint 2009
Posted: 20th September 2009 by nate in MidPoint Music FestivalTags: Bowery Boy Blue, Buffalo Killers, Chairlift, Eat Sugar, Ellery, Extra Golden, Flaregun, Frontier Folk Nebraska, God Made Me Funky, Heartless Bastards, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, mallory, Matthew Shelton's Picnic, Micachu and the Shapes, MidPoint Music Festival, Pomegranates, Scotland Yard Gospel Choir, State Song, Stick Figure Drawings, The Baltic Sea, The Bloodsugars, The Do, The Dynamites featuring Charles Walker, The Harlequins, The Lighthouse and The Whaler, The Lions Rampant, The Minor Leagues, The Seedy Seeds, The Sundresses, The Wildbirds, The Young Republic
Out-of-Town Picks
Like a lot of people, my first taste of Chairlift came about because of their hit song “Bruises” that was featured in an iPod commercial. But when they opened for Peter, Bjorn and John this past April at the Southgate House, I saw a band that was about more than writing catchy songs that could become radio-friendly hits. In the beginning [...]
MidPoint 2009 Artist: The Dø
Posted: 16th September 2009 by nate in MidPoint Music FestivalTags: MidPoint Music Festival, The Do
The Dø (France/Finland)
Folk/Indie/Pop
The first thing you should know about this band is how to pronounce their name. Just be seeing the word you may think it sounds like “doo” but rather it’s pronounced “dough”, as in the first note in the C major scale. Their band name is also derived from the first two letters (“d” [...]
MidPoint Brings Music From Around the World
Posted: 14th September 2009 by nate in MidPoint Music FestivalTags: Damen Samuel, Extra Golden, God Made Me Funky, Kathleen Haskard, Ketch Harbour Wolves, Micachu and the Shapes, MidPoint Music Festival, The Do, The Free Press, Toy Horses
One of the finer aspects of MidPoint is that festival organizers bring in some of the hottest, up-and-coming talent from all over the world, although only nine of the two-hundred and seventy bands are from outside the United States. Other than the United States, MidPoint 2009 will be represented by bands from six other countries.
Making their way south from [...]