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BY EVAN O. ALBERT
The Forecastle Festival has announced the initial lineup for its11th annual three-day music celebration, featuring Grammy Award winners The Black Keys, along with The String Cheese Incident and the Avett Brothers. The Festival is July 12 – 14, 2013 at Louisville’s Waterfront Park.
The Flaming Lips, Alabama Shakes, Animal Collective, Old Crow Medicine Show, Grace Potter & the Nocturnals, Big Boi, Matt & Kim, Purity Ring are also part of the 2013 lineup.
Louisville native Jim James, whose band My Morning Jacket headlined and curated the festival in 2012, will be on this year’s bill with his new solo project.
The Forecastle Festival will feature late night shows on the historic Belle of Louisville steamboat and other landmark locations throughout downtown Louisville. The String Cheese Incident will perform an exclusive, separately ticketed late night show at Louisville’s historic Palace Theater on Saturday, July 13, 2013.
Weekend passes for Forecastle 2013 will go on sale this Wednesday, March 6 at noon EST at Forecastlefest.com, Ticketmaster.com and all Ticketmaster outlets.
Single day passes and late night show tickets, along with the daily schedule of artists and late-night
events will be available in April.
Click here to subscribe to the Ace digital e-dition, emailed to your inbox every Thursday morning. Ace will be giving away Forecastle 2013 passes this Summer. Details will be announced in the weekly e-dition.
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Confirmed Forecastle 2013 Lineup Includes
The Black Keys
The String Cheese Incident
The Avett Brothers
The Flaming Lips
Alabama Shakes
Jim James
Animal Collective
Old Crow Medicine Show
Grace Potter & The Nocturnals
The Forecastle Incident (with special guests)
Young the Giant
Big Boi
Matt & Kim
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings (Ace interview here)
Purity Ring
The Joy Formidable
Datsik
Dawes
Griz
Kurt Vile & The Violators
Toro y Moi
Bob Mould Band
El-P & Killer Mike
Baauer
Bombino
Moon Taxi (Ace Moon Taxi interview here)
Freakwater
Foxygen
Greensky Bluegrass
Wild Belle
Tift Merritt
TOKiMONSTA
Shovels & Rope
Salva
Night Beds
MNDR
Churchill
Ryan Hemsworth
Rubblebucket
Alasdair Roberts & Friends
Mona
The 23 String Band
Wheeler Brothers
A Lion Named Roar
The Pass
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