Sites & Sounds: June Music Festivals
. Stuart Beach Music Festival Also known as the Hot Fun in the Summertime Festival, this beach music blow-out has a line-up featuring Bill Pinkney's Original Drifters, Band of Oz, the Embers, Mark Roberts Band, Atlantic Groove, Coastal Cruz'rs, Darrell Harwood, After Jack and Foddrells. The shows take place in the beautiful setting of Wayside Park just outside Stuart in the foothills of southside Virginia. Stuart is about an hour away from both Roanoke and Greensboro, North Carolina. www.stuartbeachmusic.com and www.virginia.org Northside Festival This festival takes place at various venues in the Williamsburg and Greenpoint areas of Brooklyn and highlights "what's next" in music, film and entrepreneurship. The headlining band will be Black Flag; this will be their first NYC appearance in 26 years. Other acts on the bill include Swans, Iceage, Lambchop, Son Volt, Twin Sister, the Soft Moon, Chelsea Wolfe, Destruction Unit, Kisses, Lower and a special collaboration of Rhys Chatham & Oneida. www.northsidefestival.com Washboard Music Festival Held in southeast Ohio's Hocking Hills, this festival celebrates America's Appalachian culture and heritage with parades, rides, a car show, arts & crafts from local artisans, festival-style foods, a beer garden and plenty of live music. Scheduled to appear are Arnett Howard and the Creole Funk Band, the Smokin' Fez Monkeys, Blue Lunch, the Sodbusters, the Wayfarers, Buffalo Ridge Jazz Band, HB7, Robin Lacy and Dezydeco, the Juggernaut Jug Band and more. The "Washer Woman" will also be on hand to show you how the washboard was once popularly used to do laundry and you can also take a free tour of the Columbus Washboard Company to see how washboards are made. All shows are free. Logan is about 40 miles outside of Columbus. www.washboardmusicfestival.com Clearwater Festival This festival was started by none other than Pete Seeger himself, who 40-years ago came up with the idea of raising money and awareness in an effort to help clean up the at-the-time toxic Hudson River. Over the years the festival has expanded greatly beyond its folk origins; some of the acts scheduled to appear this year include Kris Kristofferson, Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, Son Volt, ex Drive-By Truckers Patterson Hood and Jason Isbell, Hot Tuna, David Bromberg, Judy Collins, Mavis Staples, Antibalas, Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars, Vieux Farka Toure, Buffy Sainte-Marie and many others. The 94-year old Seeger will also appear in performance with long-time collaborator Lorre Wyatt. www.clearwaterfestival.org
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