MidPoint Music Festival

Get the power to see more! Cincinnati’s MidPoint Music Festival (MPMF) announced today that music fans can now reserve a 3-day wristband pass offering the opportunity to see all performances for this year’s festival, September 25–27, 2008.

The $29 wristband pass, available for pre-order at mpmf.com, provides festival attendees access to 17 stages and concerts by all MidPoint bands. To order a wristband pass, click on the “SEE IT ALL” button on the MidPoint homepage. Venue admission is subject to legal capacity.

New Producers. New Features.
Cincinnati alternative newsweekly CityBeat is producing MidPoint Music Festival for the first time in the event’s seven-year history. New this year will be an expansion of venues into Downtown, along with many of the historic-Over-the-Rhine neighborhood locations used in the
past. Two groups of stages are equally divided north and south of Central Parkway, making it easy to walk between venues, and festival transportation will also be available.

“MidPoint is dedicated to fostering growth within Over-the-Rhine and Downtown,” said Dan McCabe, executive producer. “All the recent discussion about Cincinnati possibly getting streetcars in the central part of the city led us to think it would be cool to show folks the proposed streetcar route, which conveniently works with these venues. It’ll give them a real taste of the streetcar movement.”

To demonstrate the potential of Cincinnati streetcars, MidPoint sponsor Scion is making 20 xB crossover vehicles available to help festival attendees cruise between the uptown and downtown clubs along the proposed streetcar route. Less walking means more listening.

More Music from Who You Know. More Music from Who You Don’t.
Larger showcases will also be on tap this year, with more national bands and the introduction of independent label showcases.

The Southgate House, just across the Ohio River in Newport, Kentucky, will feature sets on the Dewey’s Pizza Stage by many national acts including the debut for Robert Pollard’s Boston Spaceships. Pollard has been an iconic force in the indie-rock world with his last band, Guided By Voices. The September 25 show kicks off a national tour supporting his new band’s anticipated first album, Brown Submarine. Other feature headliners on the Dewey’s Pizza stage include The Sadies (Toronto) on September 26 and Mates of State (Stratford, CT) on September 27. On September 26, MidPoint showcases the independent imprint Lujo Records, which signed the Cincinnati band Pomegranates last year.
Joining them will be other emerging bands on this label including Baby Teeth (Chicago), Look Mexico (Tallahassee), Cool Hand Luke (Nashville), Dark Romantics (Lakeland, FL) and Mouse Fire (Lakeland, FL).

Partnering with Aronoff
The Aronoff Center for the Arts premiers as one of the new Downtown venues and has committed to be a major partner into the future. In addition to handling ticketing, the center’s Fifth Third Theater will be the site of the WOXY.com Stage and feature performances by Why?, Jukebox the Ghost, The Purrs and Headlights. Artist check-in will also be hosted in the Aronoff’s Center Stage Room. A detailed schedule
of bands, dates and locations will follow in the coming weeks.

More Mystery: A Secret Concert for 3-Day Wristband Holders
Scion and Dewey’s Pizza are planning an exclusive, top-secret concert that’s sure to please those who attend. The catch is that admission and details on the date, location and artists will be made available only to 3-day wristband holders. Yet another reason to buy right now.