BELFAST FREE RANGE MUSIC FESTIVAL

The 2012 Free Range Music Fest HillyTown Sampler is live!  Be sure to check it out at http://hillytown.bandcamp.com/album/2012-free-range-fest-sampler.  It features tracks from 19 of this year’s bands.  A great way to get pumped about the 28th!

The 2012 Free Range Music Festival will feature performances by: The Anders Parker Cloud Badge (Burlington, VT), the What Cheer? Brigade (Providence, RI), Callers (Brooklyn, NY), Arborea (Lewiston, ME), Sharron Kraus (England) with Glenn Jones (Cambridge, MA), Kath Bloom (New Hampshire), Shell Shag (Brooklyn, NY), The Black Swans (Columbus, OH), MV & EE (Vermont), Curious Mystery (Seattle, WA), The Bill Barnes Trio (Hope, ME), Spirit Family Reunion (Brooklyn, NY), Lonesome Shack (Seattle, WA), Mother Popcorn (San Francisco, CA), Bunwinkies (East Hampton & Turner Falls, MA), Butcher Boy (Portland, ME), The Coloradas (Portland and Waldo County, ME), The End Times Spasm Band (Fort Wayne, IN), AWAAS (Portland, ME), Coke Weed (Bar Harbor, ME), The Colin Langenus Orchestra (Brooklyn, NY), the Sun Parade (Northampton, MA), When Particles Collide (Bangor, ME), Prisma (Montville, ME), Alice Limoges (Rockport, ME), The Living Daylight (Brooksville, ME), Gypsy Caravan (Midcoast Area, ME), The Rugged (Jackson, ME), Meteora (Friendship and Lincolnville, ME), and Timbered Lake (Blue Hill, ME).

HillyTown will again be hosting a festival after party at Three Tides beginning at 10PM.  The event is open to festival-goers over 21.  Performers at the after party will include A Severe Joy (Portland, ME), Great Western Plain (Portland and Bangor, ME) and Vistas (Camden).

The 2012 Free Range Music Fest will bring another unique lineup to downtown Belfast on Saturday, April 28th!

This year’s festival will feature over thirty acts from all over Maine, New England, and the world.  Performers will include The Anders Parker Cloud Badge (Burlington, VT), the What Cheer? Brigade (Providence, RI), Arborea (Lewiston, ME), Sharron Kraus (Scotland) with Glenn Jones (Cambridge, MA), The Black Swans (Columbus, OH), MV & EE (Vermont), The Bill Barnes Trio (Hope, ME), Spirit Family Reunion (Brooklyn, NY), Lonesome Shack (Seattle, WA), The Coloradas (Portland and Waldo County, ME), The End Times Spasm Band (Fort Wayne, IN), AWAAS (Portland, ME), The Colin Langenus Orchestra (Brooklyn, NY), Coke Weed (Bar Harbor, ME), When Particles Collide (Bangor, ME) and many more.  Photos and bios can be found here.

The full festival lineup will be posted in the coming weeks.

Performances will take place across eight venues in the downtown Belfast area.  Venues will include the Colonial Theatre, Waterfall Arts, Aarhus Gallery, the American Legion Hall, First Church, the Belfast Free Library, and a surprise venue to be announced at a later date.  Performances will take place from 11am to midnight.  Full schedule will be released in early April.

The HillyTown.com will again be hosting a festival afterparty at Three Tides beginning at 10PM.  The event is open to festival-goers over 21.  Performers at the afterparty will include A Severe Joy (Portland, ME) and Great Western Plain (Portland and Bangor, ME)

New to the Free Range Music Festival scene this year, WERU FM will be hosting their annual Spring Fling Record and Gear sale at the Belfast Boat House from 11am to 4pm during the festival.  Stop by to peruse (and purchase) used records, CDs and instruments, all accompanied by WERU DJs live and on the premises.

We are fortunate to live in an extremely supportive community!  Thanks to the support of community members and businesses, we were able to launch and fund the first two years of the Free Range Music Festival on a shoestring budget.  Moving into our third year, we are looking to further establish the Free Range Music Festival as a sustainable event for the city of Belfast and greater Maine music community.  Funds raised through our Kickstarter campaign will help cover basic needs for the 2012 festival and provide seed money for future festival goals, including outreach programs for area teens, additional equipment purchases and extending the festival to include more year-round events.

We are calling on you, our greater support network, to lend a hand if you can. In return, you’ll receive our unending gratitude as well other great rewards including festival passes, merchandise, and more!  Visit our Kickstarter site for more info.