Hopscotch Music Festival
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| Dates | Sept. 10-12, 2015 |
| Location(s) | Raleigh, North Carolina, United States |
| Years active | 2010–present |
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Hopscotch Music Festival is an annual 3-day music festival in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina, United States. It was founded by Greg Lowenhagen while he was an employee at the Independent Weekly, a locally owned alternative weekly newspaper and media company. Lowenhagen is the festival's director, and it is now owned by Hopscotch Presents, LLC, a partnership between Travis Janovich, the founder of Etix, and co-owners Paul Laughter and Ben Wingrove.
Hopscotch Music Festival features local, national, and international bands in a variety of genres — rock, hip-hop, metal, dance, punk, alt-country, classical, noise, drone, folk and more. More than 130 acts play in multiple venues within a walkable footprint in downtown Raleigh, with artists performing on an outdoor main stage and in many local clubs.
Other festival features include:
Hopscotch Director Greg Lowenhagen came up with the idea for the festival after moving back to the Triangle area from Austin and Chicago: "When I returned from being away, I realized the Triangle, with its strong music heritage and abundance of local talent, seemed ready for a different, more nationally recognizable festival to call its own."
Former Hopscotch Co-Director Grayson Currin, also the Independent Weekly's music editor, added: "Several music festivals in the Triangle make it clear how strong the talent in North Carolina is, and they do it better and better each year. We don't want to replace that. Rather, we want to expand on it by showing that this area has the caliber of bands and listeners that can support a big music festival."
Steve Schewel, co-founder of the Independent Weekly and owner of Carolina Independent Publications, said about the festival's first year: "The Triangle has been thirsting for a big-bang urban music festival, and that's why—after 26 years of writing about music in our community—the Independent is bringing Hopscotch to town."
The first Hopscotch Music Festival took place September 9–11, 2010. It featured 130 bands in 10 venues.
The headliners were hip-hop group, Public Enemy, with Los Angeles trio No Age and Raleigh's The Love Language (Saturday) and indie rock giants Panda Bear and Broken Social Scene with Raleigh's The Rosebuds (Friday). A surprise performance by Raleigh's Helping Hand Mission Marching Band electrified the audience prior to Public Enemy's performance.
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