Listen to WXDU April 6 - 10 for the chance to win day-passes to the Spring 2015 Shakori Hills GrassRoots Festival of Music & Dance. The festival will be held April 16-19 in Pittsboro, NC. Featured bands include: The Wood Brothers, AJ Ghent, Willie Watson, The London Souls, Bombadil, Holy Ghost Tent Revival, and The Honeycutters. There will be great food, craft vendors, kids’ activities, camping and workshops. For tickets and more info: shakorihillsgrassroots.org.
WXDU will offer a ticket giveaway this week to the Sagan Youth performance. On April 2, Sagan Youth will perform their upcoming science-fiction concept album Cela at the Morehead Planetarium and Science Center.
Suckfest, a two-day Greensboro, NC music festival, will be held at The Blind Tiger, November 7-8. Be sure to listen to WXDU this week for your chance to win tickets.
Bands for the Friday, Nov. 7 show include: Dope Body, Designer, Junior Astronomers, Roomrunner, Whatever Brains, Dumpster, Flesh Wounds, Wymyns Prysyn, Space Bear, Teen Death, Fever Dream and Black Santa.
Saturday, Nov. 8 bands are: Cop Problem, Priapus, Lesser Life, Born Hollow, Holder's Scar, Distrust, Yautja, Irata, Empire, Hawks, Gut Feeling, Rulebreaker, Future Primitive, Damn Frank and Totally Slow.
Listen to WXDU this week for the chance to win a pair of one-day passes to the Shakori Hills Grassroots Fall Festival, October 9 - 12, 2014. Headliners include, North Mississippi Allstars, Nahko & Medicine for the People, Donna the Buffalo, The Duhks, Loamlands, and many, many more.
Listen to WXDU this week for the chance to win tickets to attend the Girls Rock NC Rally on Saturday, October 4. Girls Rock NC is celebrating 10 years of youth empowerment, feminism, music education, and community activism in central North Carolina. The festival will be held at the following venues on Saturday, October 4 -- Artscenter (11am-5pm); Cats Cradle (6pm - 11:30pm); and The Station (11pm - 2:00am). For more info: www.girlsrocknc.org/grnc-rally.
WXDU has a pair of tickets to give away for the Saturday, July 26 Merge 25 Fest outdoor party from 1-10pm. For the chance to win, listen to WXDU tomorrow evening (Thursday, July 17) and also check WXDU's Facebook/Twitter posts for a more detailed giveaway time. More information about the festival can be found here.
Win tickets to MerleFest 2014 and join the annual music homecoming presented by Lowe’s April 24th through the 27th at Wilkes Community College. Merle Haggard, Old Crow Medicine Show, Ricky Scaggs, and Holly Williams are just a few of the talented performers for this year. Check WXDU's Facebook and Twitter announcements this week for giveaway information.
WXDU will give away a pair of passes for Moogfest 2014 this Friday, March 28 at the Heads on Sticks / Drag Sounds / Trashettes show at the Duke Coffeehouse. Moogfest will be held April 23-27 in Asheville, North Carolina. The 5-day festival is dedicated to the synthesis of technology, art and music, and honors the inventiveness of Bob Moog and the legacy of the analog synth. Offering an experimental line-up of daytime conference programming and nightly music performances, this is no ordinary music festival. Headliners include: Kraftwerk, Pet Shop Boys, Giorgio Moroder, M.I.A., CHIC feat. Nile Rogers, Flying Lotus and many more.
WXDU is giving away tickets to the Tori Amos concert at Durham Performing Arts Center on August 20, 2014. For the chance to win, tune in to WXDU between Wednesday, March 5 and Friday, March 7. Also check WXDU's Facebook and Twitter accounts daily for more information about ticket giveaways. This tour is in support of Amos' 14th studio recording, Unrepentant Geraldines.
WXDU is giving away five pairs of tickets to the Pixies w/Cults concert at the Durham Performing Arts Center on Friday, January 31, 2014. For the chance to be a lucky winner, tune in to WXDU between Wednesday, January 22 and Sunday, January 26. Also check WXDU's Facebook and Twitter accounts daily for more information about ticket giveaways.