Musicians from Texas, Ohio, North Carolina and Maine will bring fresh perspectives to traditional sounds during the third annual WRBC Roots Music Festival from noon to 5 p.m. Saturday, May 15, at the Florence Keigwin Amphitheater, adjacent to the Olin Arts Center, at Bates College, 75 Russell St. (rain site: Benjamin Mays Center).<\/p>\n
Sponsored by Bates’ student-run community radio station, WRBC-FM, the concert is open to the public at no charge.<\/p>\n
Featured acts range from acoustic folksingers Sara Cox and Caitlin Cary to the epic, roots-inflected indie rock of Okkervil River.<\/p>\n
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“This year’s lineup is intended to consider how contemporary artists are pushing the boundaries of ‘roots music,’ ” says Tucker McKinney, festival coordinator. “The acts are more difficult to categorize. We feel this lineup will appeal to a diverse audience and at the same time break new ground for our festival.”<\/p>\n
In order of scheduled (and approximate) starting times, the performers are:
\nThe Pubcrawlers, from Portland and Dover, N.H. They reflect influences ranging from traditional Celtic music to street punk, hardcore and even a little metal (noon);<\/p>\n
Sara Cox, of Portland, a singer-songwriter featured on four volumes of the compilation recordings Greetings From Area Code 207<\/em> and one who recently released, to critical acclaim, her first full-length recording, Arrive<\/em> (1 p.m.);<\/p>\n Two Cow Garage, from Columbus, Ohio, featuring three small town guys playing crunchy, straight-ahead roots rock with a country tinge (2 p.m.);<\/p>\n Okkervil River, from Austin, Texas, playing rootsy indie-rock and described by Rolling Stone magazine as a “haunted country quartet” whose singer-songwriter Will Sheff is “ready for worldwide renown” (3 p.m.); and Caitlin Cary, a singer-songwriter based in Raleigh, N.C. A former member of the alt-country group Whiskytown, she sings melodious Southern pop in a voice compared to Mary Chapin Carpenter and Patsy Cline (4 p.m.).<\/p>\n Festival attendees are encouraged to bring lawn chairs or blankets. Alcoholic beverages, pets and sound-recording equipment are prohibited, as is on-site parking.<\/p>\n WRBC broadcasts 24 hours a day, 365 days a year at 91.5 FM. Its programming covers the musical map, including metal and loud rock, punk and ska, rap and hip-hop, techno and electronica, garage and psychedelic, jazz and funk, soul and R&B, rock and pop, world and ethnic musics — and, of course, American blues, folk and country.<\/p>\n For more information about the festival, please call 207-777-7915.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Musicians from Texas, Ohio, North Carolina and Maine will bring fresh perspectives to traditional sounds during the third annual WRBC Roots Music Festival from noon to 5 p.m. Saturday, May 15, at the Florence Keigwin Amphitheater, adjacent to the Olin Arts Center, at Bates College, 75 Russell St.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[11010,39],"tags":[6135,6889,9087,9362,238],"class_list":["post-33896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-event-highlights","tag-music-tag","tag-performing-and-visual-arts","tag-visual-arts","tag-wrbc-roots-music-festival","tag-wrbc-fm-student-organizations-campus-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82645,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33896\/revisions\/82645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}