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Troika Music Festival, Nov. 5-7
If you’ve been waiting around for months to finally see that great local band that you’ve heard so much about, now’s your chance.
Troika serves as Durham’s own music festival with performances in venues all around Bull City throughout three nights. Some local event sponsors include Merge Records, Duke student-run radio station WXDU and the Durham Performing Arts Center.
This event is affordable (and college-student friendly) with a full-festival pass priced at $20 or $8 for a night. However, if you’re feeling super thrifty, there is at least one free show each night (one Thursday, two Friday and four Saturday).
Rock, Paper, Scissors, a new addition to this year’s festival, features live music, and art from local craftsmen and band merchandise for sale on Saturday from noon to 4 p.m. Check out the vendor list.[map]
There’s no lack of quality in talent whatsoever, so I’ll take the lazy, yet thorough way out and post the entire schedule:
Thursday, Nov. 7
Festival Kickoff at Durham Central Park (free) [map]
- 7 p.m. The Beast
- 7:45 Megafaun
Backstage at the DPAC [map]
- 8:30 p.m. Ghost Cats
- 9:15 p.m. Humble Tripe
- 10 p.m. The Future Kings of Nowhere
- 11 p.m. Bowerbirds
The Pinhook [map]
- 9 p.m. The Desmonds
- 9:45 p.m. House of Fools
- 10:30 p.m. Aminal
- 11:15 p.m. Max Indian
Duke Coffeehouse [map]
- 9:15 p.m. Molly Bancroft
- 10 p.m. The ExMonkeys
- 10: 45 p.m. EAR PWR
- 11: 45 p.m. Future Islands
Broad Street Cafe [map]
- 9:30 p.m. Regina Hexaphone
- 10:15 p.m. Pink Flag
- 11 p.m. The Dry Heathens
- 11:45 p.m. The Moaners
Friday Nov. 8
West End Wine Bar (free) [map]
- 7:30 p.m. Tea and Tempests
- 7:45 p.m. Liza Kate
- 8:30 p.m. Birds and Arrows
Marvell Event Center [map]
- 8:15 p.m. Ryan Gustafson
- 9 p.m. Wembley
- 9:45 p.m The Proclivities
- 10:30 p.m. Embarrassing Fruits
Trotter Building [map]
- 9 p.m. The Huguenots
- 9:45 p.m. Brett Harris
- 10: 30 p.m. Hammer No More the Fingers
- 11:30 p.m. Gentleman Jesse & His Men
- 12:30 a.m. Dex Romweber Duo
Duke Coffeehouse
- 9:30 p.m. The Ringing Cedars
- 10: 15 p.m. The Pneurotics
- 11 p.m. I Was Totally Destroying It
- midnight Birds of Avalon
Broad Street Cafe
- 9:45 p.m. Jews and Catholics
- 10:30 p.m. Whatever Brains
- 11:15 p.m. Dirty Little Heaters
- 12:15 a.m. Pipe
Bull McCabe’s (free)
- 11:30 p.m. All Your Science
- 12:15 a.m. Beloved Binge
Saturday, Nov. 9
Rock, Paper, Scissors at Trotter Building (free)
- 12:30 p.m. Three Days in Vegas
- 1:30 p.m. Tin Star
- 2:30 p.m. Mount Moriah
West End Wine Bar (free)
- 7 p.m. Sequoya
- 7:45 p.m. Jasme Kelly
- 8:30 p.m. The Tender Fruit
Marvell Even Center
- 8:15 p.m. Sea Cow
- 9 p.m. Bright Young Things
- 9:45 p.m. Lud
- 10:30 p.m. Luego
The Pinhook
- 9:30 p.m. Veronique Diabolique
- 10:15 p.m. Citified
- 11 p.m. Gray Young
Duke Coffeehouse
- 8:45 p.m. D-Town Brass
- 9:30 Veelee
- 10:15 Schooner
- 11:15 Lonnie Walker
Trotter Building
- 9 p.m. The Bronzed Chorus
- 9:45 Maple Stave
- 10:30 The Travesties
- 11:30 Red Collar
Broad Street Cafe
- 9:30 p.m. Dynamite Brothers
- 10:15 Rat Jackson
- 11 The Loners
- midnight The Love Language
Bull McCabe’s (free)
- 11:30 p.m. Butterflies
- 12:15 a.m. Pistil
Check out a map of all the venues (courtesy Troika’s Web site).
If you can’t make it to Durham, head over to the Indy and download some free tracks from festival performers. (If you love free stuff check out Free-cession in the Triangle for all kinds of free activities!)
Can’t get enough Troika here? Follow the festival’s Bullbot and check out his blog.
12th annual Carrboro Music Festival
Once a year businesses in downtown Carrboro open their doors for the day-long festival that serves as a free sampler of the Ca
rrboro-Chapel Hill music scene. This year 24 venues ranging from RBC Centura to Armadillo Grill will host more than 160 performances throughout the compact area with the earliest kicking off at 1 p.m. and the latest at 11 p.m.
There is something for almost anyone as featured genres range from Americana to hip-hop to improvisational jazz.
For fans of classic bluegrass, Big Fat Gap will play at Fifth Season Gardening/Glasshalfull at 6:15 p.m.
Folk rock duo Birds & Arrows, which has a similar sound to M. Ward and the milder ballads of The Avett Brothers, will perform at Open Eye Café at 7 p.m.
Listeners of Jucifer and Mastodon will find solace in Caltrop at the Rock Stage at Southern Rail at 9:15 p.m.
For a full performance schedule visit here.
As for traveling to the festival, UNC-Chapel Hill’s campus is a little over a half mile to the area and Chapel Hill Transit buses run regularly for free with Carrboro stops on routes. Triangle Transportation Authority bus routes run from anywhere else in the Triangle and a free bio-diesel shuttle will run from a park and ride lot at Carrboro Plaza from noon to 8 p.m.
