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June Music Festivals

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With the passage of Memorial Day, the summer music festival season starts to heat up and antiMusic Travel Editor Kevin Wierzbicki gives us the details about some of music festivals that are taking place this month.

Stuart Beach Music Festival
June 6-8, Stuart, Virginia

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
June 13-20, Brooklyn, New York

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
June 14-15, Logan, Ohio

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
June 15-16, Croton-on-Hudson, New York

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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