Carrboro Music Pageant returns with over 100 bands after previous COVID-19 cancellations

For the first time because the starting of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Carrboro Music Pageant is again.

Returning for its twenty fifth anniversary, the pageant will happen this Sunday in downtown Carrboro with over 100 music teams in attendance. It’s going to host performers in over 15 indoor and out of doors areas starting at 1 p.m. on Sunday. 

It’s going to additionally maintain a Hip-Hop Showcase hosted by rap artist SkyBlew within the Cat’s Cradle Again Room from 2 to 10 p.m.

“The Music Pageant is a group effort in Carrboro,” Carrboro Recreation Supervisor Jeremy Poythress stated. “We depend on the group, particularly musicians, host areas and distributors to logistically put all of the shifting components of planning collectively.”

Poythress and the remainder of the Carrboro Division of Recreation, Parks & Cultural Sources are coordinating efficiency areas and getting ready infrastructure for the Music Pageant.

Sound System Seven, a 4th-wave Ska band based mostly within the Triangle, has been taking part in on the Carrboro Music Pageant because it was known as Fête de la Musique. 

Thomas Szypulski, the lead vocalist of the band, stated they’ve solely missed two festivals, not counting years throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. 

“It’s simply good to stroll round Carrboro all day and take heed to music,” he stated. 

Szypulski described the style of Sound System Seven as encompassing American, Caribbean and British Ska. Being a 4th-wave band, they play music from all eras of the Ska motion and have authentic songs that may be discovered on the band’s Spotify page.

He added that the band is energetic and usually performs round North Carolina. 

“We do what we do, we play what we play, and we’ve got enjoyable doing it,” Syzpulski stated.

Sound System Seven will play on the Carrboro Music Pageant within the Carrboro City Commons at 6:15 p.m. 

Though many veteran bands like Sound System Seven are returning to this yr’s Carrboro Music Pageant, bands just like the Twits, based mostly in Carrboro, are performing for the primary time.

“I noticed the appliance to play on the pageant and I assumed, ‘Why not?’ So I utilized and our band bought in and that’s simply actually cool,” Jean Cronin of the Twits stated. 

Because the lead vocalist, Cronin described the band as a British post-punk cowl band. It normally performs songs by bands such because the Treatment, the Smiths, and Pleasure Division. Cronin stated he’s Irish and described his love for overlaying the music of the British 70s and 80s as his personal private “area of interest.”

He added that he thinks the kind of music The Twits play must be performed extra and is happy to see a canopy band taking part in one thing apart from traditional rock. 

The Twits play the Carrboro Century Middle at 4:45 p.m. 

With the specter of Hurricane Ian, Poythress stated his division is getting ready a plan for various ranges of inclement climate. 

“There’s solely a lot area in Carrboro to have out of doors music so a few of our venues are already naturally indoors, making it simpler for the pageant to occur if there’s rain or scattered thunderstorms, however clearly if there are energy outages we’re going to need to cancel the pageant,”  Poythress stated. 

Regardless of the specter of inclement climate, Poythress stated he’s optimistic for the return of the pageant. 

“Carrboro values musicians and artists generally and I’m excited to see this delivered to gentle within the pageant,” he stated. 

The total efficiency schedule with areas will be discovered here and updates concerning inclement climate will likely be up to date on the festival website.

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