![]() And one of the outdoor stages will move inside to a Raleigh Convention Center ballroom, to be livestreamed (and also be a controlled environment, should the need arise).Īnother change will be the bluegrass festival weekend shows at Red Hat Amphitheater. ![]() is the Capitol Stage, to the corner of Martin St. The bluegrass event’s most obvious changes involve the mostly-free weekend outdoor festival, IBMA Bluegrass Live! powered by PNC. The main City Plaza stage will move a block down Fayetteville St. to the parking lots in front of Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts. But since the good news about lifting restrictions has come in, that model is flipped to in-person enhanced by online.” For a long time we were thinking it would be digital enhanced by limited in-person attendance. We’ve always known we’d do something in-person this year. “Luckily everybody seems hungry and wants to make things happen. “It’s a very compressed timeline to get everybody in the place they need to be,” says Piedmont Council of Traditional Music (Pinecone) executive director David Brower. As with Hopscotch, time is tight for planning ( and tickets are now on sale). World of Bluegrass, meanwhile, is already putting names out for its Main Stage shows including Bela Fleck, Sierra Hull, Del McCoury and Steep Canyon Rangers. Hopscotch should be releasing some scheduled acts within the next few weeks. It’s still an odd year, not like anything like back to normal, and we’ll do everything we can to make it as safe as possible.” ![]() Everybody has been hit hard the past year, so whatever anyone wants to try and do, we’ll support. We’re not going to try to stop anybody from being open even if it’s in conflict with our main stages. “And the clubs will be doing daytime shows, as usual, but also some at night. “I think it will be about 40 acts, maybe a few more,” says Price. The festival proper will be an outdoor affair with two stages, one on Fayetteville St.'s City Plaza and the other at Moore Square, augmented by mostly free day-party shows in downtown clubs. 2.ĭue to a compressed timeline of perhaps one-fifth the usual planning time, Hopscotch will present what director Nathan Price calls “the top one-third to one-half of the poster” of a normal year’s lineup. And after going virtual in 2020, World of Bluegrass returns Sept. Hopscotch, the alternative-slanted festival that had to cancel last year due to the pandemic, is set for the weekend of Sept. And here’s a major indicator: the return of in-person versions of two of downtown Raleigh’s primary fall music festivals, Hopscotch Music Festival and IBMA’s World of Bluegrass. In this most unusual of years, signs of life are gradually returning. Note: Authored by David Menconi, this piece has been produced in partnership with Raleigh Arts. Menconi's latest book, " Step It Up and Go: The Story of North Carolina Popular Music, from Blind Boy Fuller and Doc Watson to Nina Simone and Superchunk," was published in Oct. ![]()
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