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09-23-2005, 02:22 AM
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The Voodoo Music Experience is Memphis bound
By David Williams
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September 22, 2005
The Voodoo Music Experience, a national music festival displaced from New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina, will take place Oct. 29-30 in Tom Lee Park, event officials announced this morning. It will raise funds for the New Orleans Restoration Fund.
"Moving a festival of this magnitude has been no easy task and we are grateful to the City of Memphis," said founder and producer Stephen Rehage in a statement.
Performances from the festival will be broadcast by VH1 on Nov. 5.
Memphis had ben competing with Austin for the festival, which has a lineup including Nine Inch Nails, whose leader, Trent Reznor, is a former New Orleans resident. In a recent statement posted on the festival Web site, Rezner said: "It’s great that other cities have opened their doors to this year’s event, and the New Orleans spirit will definitely remain in the air - that’s something the floods cannot wash away."
Other acts have yet to be announced.
Voodoo Music Fest
NEW location to be announced.
NIN, The Flaming Lips, Queens of the Stone Age, Billy Idol, Social Distortion, Tiesto, My Chemical Romance, Secret Machines, New York Dolls, Cake, Ryan Adams, Mickey Hart’s Voodoo Drum Circle, The Bravery, Louis XIV, LCD Soundsystem, Handsome Boy Modeling School, Digable Planets, Carl Cox, Brazilian Girls, The Decemberists, Death From Above 1979, VHS or Beta, King Wilkie, Dan Dyer, The Giraffes, World Leader Pretend, Mindless Self Indulgence, Something For Rockets, Ballzack, Ghost, Prince Paul, Dan The Automator, Worms Union, Noomoon Tribe, Nag Hammadi, Atone Pain Tribe, Frame of Mind and many more.
The Voodoo Music Experience is Memphis bound
By David Williams
Contact
September 22, 2005
The Voodoo Music Experience, a national music festival displaced from New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina, will take place Oct. 29-30 in Tom Lee Park, event officials announced this morning. It will raise funds for the New Orleans Restoration Fund.
"Moving a festival of this magnitude has been no easy task and we are grateful to the City of Memphis," said founder and producer Stephen Rehage in a statement.
Performances from the festival will be broadcast by VH1 on Nov. 5.
Memphis had ben competing with Austin for the festival, which has a lineup including Nine Inch Nails, whose leader, Trent Reznor, is a former New Orleans resident. In a recent statement posted on the festival Web site, Rezner said: "It’s great that other cities have opened their doors to this year’s event, and the New Orleans spirit will definitely remain in the air - that’s something the floods cannot wash away."
Other acts have yet to be announced.
Voodoo Music Fest
NEW location to be announced.
NIN, The Flaming Lips, Queens of the Stone Age, Billy Idol, Social Distortion, Tiesto, My Chemical Romance, Secret Machines, New York Dolls, Cake, Ryan Adams, Mickey Hart’s Voodoo Drum Circle, The Bravery, Louis XIV, LCD Soundsystem, Handsome Boy Modeling School, Digable Planets, Carl Cox, Brazilian Girls, The Decemberists, Death From Above 1979, VHS or Beta, King Wilkie, Dan Dyer, The Giraffes, World Leader Pretend, Mindless Self Indulgence, Something For Rockets, Ballzack, Ghost, Prince Paul, Dan The Automator, Worms Union, Noomoon Tribe, Nag Hammadi, Atone Pain Tribe, Frame of Mind and many more.