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The Village Voice's 4Knots Music Festival 2012
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- Parent Category: Other Festivals
- Category: Music
- Published on Sunday, 15 July 2012 20:38
- Written by Joanne Choi
Popular weekly newspaper, The Village Voice, will be hosting this year’s 4Knots Music Festival on Saturday, July 14 2012. Various music artists such as Archers Of Loaf, The Drums, Crocodiles, Hospitality, Bleached, Nick Waterhouse, Delicate Steve, Team Spirit, Devin and Doldrums are all scheduled to perform at the free, daytime event for all ages from 1pm-8pm. The Main Stage and Second Skippers stage are both located at South Street Seaport, Piers 16 & 17.
The time schedule for 4Knots is listed below:
Main Stage Skippers Stage
1:30PM: Nick Waterhouse 1:00PM: Doldrums
2:30PM: Bleached 2:00PM: Devin
3:30PM: Hospitality 3:00PM: Team Spirit
4:30PM: Crocodiles 4:00PM: Delicate Steve
5:30PM: The Drums
6:30PM: Archers of Loaf
Opening sets on the main stage will begin at 12:15 with The Smiling Lies and at 12:30 with the Fast Years. For more information on the event, including a festival map & full band information, the official 4Knots Guide will be available in all copies of the Village Voice hitting newsstands’ on Saturday.
The Official 4Knots Music Festival After Party featuring the Black Lips with Kid Congo Powers + The Pink Monkey Birds will be held soon after the main event. The show will be hosted by DJ Jonathan Toubin, America’s most popular rock and soul DJ / conductor of the NY Night Train parties. Toubin will spin his Soul Clap classics, wild early rock and roll shakers and rare 1960s French fuzz during this special Bastille Day inspired multi-media dance party, featuring special performances from guest DJ April March, go go dancer Anna Copa Cabanna, 4Knots Seaport limbo contest and much more!
The show will be held right near Pier 17 at the Beekman Beer Garden Beach Club on South Street. Tickets are $15 and can be purchased at: villagevoice.com/4knots and will be available at the door. Doors open at 7pm and the show will begin right after the festival ends.
Bud Light returns to the Village Voice’s 4Knots Music Festival as the presenting sponsor. Other sponsors for this year include Landshark Lager, Captain Morgan Black Spiced Rum, Metro PCS, Pisco Porton, Samsung, PopChips, Beekman Beer Garden Beach Club, Dr. Martens, Harley-Davidson of NYC, Lucky Strike, Laser Cosmetica, MexiBBQ, The Gershwins’ Porgy & Bess, Urban Ears, Nelson Blue, Barefoot Wine & Bubbly, Open Road Films’ “Hit and Run”, Tune Up Media, Lucky Strike, Red Bull Soundstage, Mexicue, Juice Press, Teany, Reach Media Inc., Audio Exciter powered by Aphex, Zico, Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts, smartwater, Seaport Music Festival and the South Street Seaport Museum.
About The Village Voice:
Founded by Dan Wolf, Ed Fancher, and Norman Mailer in October 1955, The Village Voice introduced free-form, high-spirited and passionate journalism into the public discourse. As the nation's first and largest alternative newsweekly, the Voice maintains the same tradition of no-holds-barred reporting and criticism it first embraced when it began publishing over fifty years ago. The recipient of three Pulitzer prizes, the National Press Foundation Award, and the George Polk Award, among others, the Voice has earned a reputation for its groundbreaking investigations of New York City politics, and as the premier expert on New York's cultural scene. Writing and reporting on local and national politics, with opinionated arts, culture, music, dance, film and theater reviews, daily web dispatches, comprehensive entertainment listings, and unrivaled classifieds, the Voice is the authoritative source on all that is New York.
The Village Voice has also created such celebrated events as the Obies Awards, Brooklyn Pour, Choice Eats, Web Awards, Choice Streets, 4Knots Music Festival as well as the most anticipated issues and guides of the year including the annual Pazz and Jop music poll, Best of NYC, and its Spring, Summer, and Fall Preview guides, the Voice is New York's most influential must-read alternative newspaper in print and online at www.villagevoice.com where the site averages 2 million unique users each month.
For more updates and info visit:
The Village Voice 4Knots Music Festival
July 14, 2012
@South Street Seaport, NYC
