Midtown Dickens and Humble Tripe hit the road!

http://go.savannahnow.com/savannah-ga/events/show/89348126-midtown-dickens-with-humble-tripe

Make sure you put December 4th on your calendars for Humble Tripe's local cd release party. It is gonna be a ho down show down for sure. Justin from the Carolina Chocolate Drops will be performing his solo stuff too and we just added the Wigg Report!!!

The show is all ages and free!

Show: VH1 Save the Music and Durham Public Schools

The VH1 Save the Music Foundation is teaming with The Broad Street Cafe to host a concert to benefit the music programs at Durham Public Schools.

When?  Monday, December 7th
Where?  The Broad Street Cafe, 1116 Broad Street in Durham
Time?  Doors open at 6pm, Music starts at 7pm
Cost?  $10 Donation/Cover - all concert proceeds go to Durham Public
Schools

Musical Lineup:
• 7P Justin Robinson (from the Carolina Chocolate Drops) and the Mary
Annettes
• 8P Brett Harris (indie/pop/rock)
• 9P Andy Frasco (blues/j-pop/alternative)

Check out the flyer:

http://www.thebroadstreetcafe.com/Announcements/SaveTheMusic.pdf

Show: Jews and Catholics, Pistil, Morningbell @ The Pinhook

Although the Indy made a slight error in their 8 Days a Week listing for this show (No Bull City, the sonic delights of Pistil instead!), Jews and Catholics will be rocking the Pinhook this Saturday, Nov 21 with Morningbell and Pistil.  It's $5 at the door!

Humble Tripe launches new site and hits the road!

Humble Tripe are hitting the road with Midtown Dickens, culminating in a killer free party at Duke Coffeehouse on Dec 4th, celebrating the completion of their amazing new album, which will be released nationally by 307 Knox Records in 2010! 

11/27       Green Bean,  8pm           Greensboro, NC

11/28       The Firestorm Cafe, 6pm  Asheville, NC

11/29       House Show         8pm     Atlanta, GA

11/30       Civic Media Center   10pm  Gainesville, FL  

12/1         The Sentient Bean    8pm   Savannah, GA

12/2         Run Dan Run       8pm      Charleston, SC

12/3         The Soapbox      8pm    Wilmington, NC                  

12/4        Duke Coffeehouse  8pm   Durham, NC

They have also launched www.humpletripe.com!  Bookmark it to keep up on their latest happenings!

Troika Music Festival 2009

Folks

We are down to the last band of the night Pistil!

We did it!

Thanks for all the support.

Mel T.

Troika Music Festival 2009 and a few other items

Hi Folks,



The festival kicks off November 5th at Central Park in Durham, NC.

Okay for you it might be the first your hearing about this or it might be the second or third time you have played the festival. Whatever it maybe I love the way Adam a WKNC DJ breaks it out. Sounds like he is going to have a blast!

He mentions so of the artist on our label and that is always nice to see. I tend to some times forget that part because I am so close to the details. Things like do we have volunteers, we need t-shirts, passes, an off-duty cop, permits, rentals, pa, venues, posters and press. I tend to forget there are folks out there making their plans to spend the three days getting the most out of them. That is why this festival is so important. It has been since the first year I volunteered.

Last year we had our friend Alex Nathan involved. He was so excited to be a part of the festival. He filmed many of the performances and saw lots of the shows and at the end of the festival...he told me he could barely walk but he had so much fun.

Alex passed in May so he will not be here with us this week however there won't be a show or person that I run into that won't remind me of him.

We are so lucky to be in a city filled with great artists and fans. It is so exciting to see the energy at our local shows these days. I can't even begin to trace back to where we started, it seems so long ago.

See you Thursday at Troika!

Post to alt.ch serve from Ross Grady

Thursday, November 5 - Saturday, November 7
Troika Music Festival (http://troikamusicfestival.org/)
various downtown venues, Durham

This is the 5th annual Troika Music Festival, which has its roots in the
Durham Music Festival, which itself dated back to ~2002 or so. Been
doing this for a while, in other words, and each year is better than the
last.

Full schedules & lineups can be found at the website
(http://troikamusicfestival.org/), and since there are like 80 bands
playing, I'm not going to enumerate them all here.

All you really need to know is that there are 21 discrete shows at a
total of 9 separate venues, spread across 3 nights, and while they may
not all be walking-distance (depends on how fast you walk, I guess),
they're certainly biking distance from each other. And if you gotta
drive, parking shouldn't be too bad at most venues, either.

So your $20 festival pass could, if you put some effort into it, give
you a decent shot at seeing at least 30 of the bands. Not too shabby.
(You can also do single-night passes for $8 apiece, if you know you'll
be unable to make one of the three nights.)