North Carolina Indie Bands to Rock the Early Vote
Oct 21, 2008 - By Kevin
A who’s who of North Carolina indie acts have signed up to play shows in support of Barack Obama. Shows in Asheville and Chapel Hill will take place as part of the “Concert for Change” series. The shows have been organized to promote early voting in North Carolina which started on October 16.
Merge Records founder and Superchunk/Portastatic leader Mac McCaughan will play both shows, in Chapel Hill with Superchunk and Portastatic and in Asheville as Portastatic. Other artists scheduled to perform include Bowerbirds, Megafaun, The dBs, Tift Merritt and Ivan Howard of The Rosebuds among many others.
The details of the two shows can be found below.
Asheville, NC
10/28 @ The Grey Eagle
Bands start at 8 PM
The Reigning Sound
Tift Merritt
Chris Stamey (dBs)
Portastatic
Greg Humphreys (of Hobex)
Electric Owls (ex Comas)
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Chapel Hill, NC
11/1 @ Graham Terrace at UNC
(Adjacent to the Morehead Planetarium Early Voting Site)
9 AM until 1 PM
The dBs
Superchunk (acoustic)
Ivan Rosebud
Megafaun
I Was Totally Destroying It
Bowerbirds
Greg Humphreys
Regina Hexaphone
Portastatic