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The Art of Cool Festival and Moogfest have spent the past two years locked in comparison and competition for Durham resources. The festivals take place less than a month apart, but they attract different audiences and reflect different values. Themes of protest and resistance were central to both festivals this year, and their different manifestations were telling of their motivations.
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The Bull Durham Blues Festival is looking for ways to remain relevant and attract festival goers. Executive director Angela Lee is looking to do that by reenergizing the talent, putting forth a diverse lineup, including international artists, and by including North Carolina and Durham artists. Lee is also looking for corporate sponsors to keep ticket prices down for the 26-year-old festival.
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Formerly an Asheville music festival, Moogfest relocated to Durham in 2015. In late 2015, festival organizers announced the roster of over 100 acts for the May 2016 event and the two dozen venues. Many are hopeful that the festival will utilize the Durham downtown while maintaining the character of the festival.
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Indy Week
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57), Vol. 32 Issue 49, December 2015,
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Marisa Brickman is the new director of Moogfest, the music festival which was originally located in Asheville but relocated to Durham. Brickman has helped build an extensive, cross-discipline network to support the festival’s restart. Moogfest is meant to explore how technology is impacting music, art, and the way we think about ourselves.
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The critic Stanley Crouch described jazz as democracy in sound. This is demonstrated by Kamasi Washington and Anderson Paak at this year’s Art of Cool in Durham. The duo reinvigorates jazz by integrating hip-hop, rap, and soulful sounds.
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In 2010, Greg Lowenhagen started the Hopscotch Music Festival, which takes place in downtown Raleigh annually. Cicely Mitchell wanted to implement a similar concept in Durham, and in 2014 held the first Art of Cool Fest. Both of these music festivals highlight North Carolina musicians, bring people together, and boost the economy in two of the Triangle’s urban spaces.
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Indy Week
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57), Vol. 32 Issue 46, November 2015,
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Grimes, Oneohtrix Point Never, and Mykki Blanco are three modern Moogfest artists who wrestle with the memory of nostalgic nineties music and modern-day sounds. These musicians remix mid-nineties rap, grunge rock, and pop to create new forms of electronica music.
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Amos Gaynes experienced an unexpected spiritual awakening in the middle of a field outside Asheville in 1999. At Durham’s Moogfest, Gaynes will speak about musical technology and ritual in twenty-first-century shamanistic practice. As Gaynes explains it, a well-planned dance party can be akin to a shamanistic ritual, with potential benefits to mind, body, and spirit.
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Two music festivals, Moogfest and Art of Cool, asked the city and county of Durham for funding. Trouble to obtain these funds indicate the city’s pervasive growing pains and troubled efforts to build a cohesive vision for its own future. People are concerned that development will cause Durham to lose its diverse culture.
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Terence Blanchard, trumpeter and leader of the quintet E-Collective, isn’t afraid of injecting politics into his music. His latest album, Breathless, explores the meaning of groove, police violence, and community building through music. Blanchard is one of this year’s featured musicians at Art of Cool Festival in Durham.
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This week, Moogfest will at last arrive in Durham after a year and a half of anticipatory debate, analysis, and excitement. The ambition of Moogfest 2014, and the financial flop that followed, helped push the event to Durham after failed investments. Organizers have since gained support by a local network of sponsors aspiring to develop the region's growing tech image.
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Moogfest, in its second year in Durham, features a protest stage and other progressive themes. The music festival promises a space where artistic expression can be channeled to incite action for social justice. At the same time, Moogfest is eager to be a beacon for the affluent, tech-minded entrepreneurs flooding Durham's rapidly expanding start-up community.
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Beginning half a century ago, Laurie Spiegel and Suzanne Ciani laid early foundations for electronic music. In the Triangle, a resurgence of interest in their work has run parallel with the renewed interest in old synthesizers. They will be featured at this year’s Moogfest in Durham.
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Over the last decade, Chaz Martenstein has helped his Bull City Records become what is now the longest-running record store in Durham, North Carolina. To celebrate the shop’s eleventh year, Martenstein is putting on a two-day music festival this weekend. Every band on the festival’s roster has a connection with the Triangle and the shop.
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The Triangle is home to a large mass of performers dedicated to the HIP approach--means \"historical informed performance.\" This means musicians use period instruments to perform works written anytime from the Renaissance to the 19th century. A new festival has thus sparked in the region for the HIP crowd.
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