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Leeway's Home Grown Music Network and the Lincoln Theatre have teamed up to present what will be one of the best street festivals ever hosted in downtown Raleigh NC.
Leeway's Home Grown Music Network and the Lincoln Theatre have teamed up to present what will be one of the best street festivals ever hosted in downtown Raleigh NC.

Leeway hosted its first Home Grown Music Festival in 1995 in Greenville NC. This year's event will mark its 10th Anniversary of spreading great music to the masses.
The event will feature performances from:
Keller Williams
Barefoot Manner
Purple Schoolbus
Seepeoples
Peter Prince (aka Moon Boot Lover)
Creekside
Five Gallon Pale
Mondays Off

Plus a special late-night Superjam with DJ Williams Projekt, The Bridge and friends inside the Theatre ($5).

The festival will take place at 126 East Carrbarus St in Raleigh (the street in front of the Lincoln Theatre). Gates open at 2pm and music will start at 3pm. Vendors will be on hand offering food, beverages and craft items. The Home Grown Music Network will also have its famous music booth on hand loaded with great CDs, DVDs & Ts.

Tickets are available via the Lincoln's website. $20 in advance, $25 at the gate. Order tickets before September 15 and get a complimentary copy of the Home Grown 6 compilation CD which features music from ALO, Raisinhill, Vinyl, Tea Leaf Green, Big Fuzz, Global Funk, Cerulean City, Barefoot Manner, Infradig, Lotus & SeepeopleS!    

Grateful Dead - Truckin Up To Buffalo 07.04.89 - DVD

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The Dead were on a roll back in 1989 and this show caught them in full flight on July 4, in front of a huge crowd at Rich Stadium in Orchard Park, New York. Three months before the Mother of All Breakouts, “Dark Star,” the band was relaxed and poised for the next level. This wasn’t a mid-90s romp through the old chestnuts. Nope, not that easy. Each song was given new life while all of the tried and true Dead hallmarks were captured in beautiful start-of-the-art imagery and mixed in 5.1 sound from the master tapes. The holiday gig starts off in third gear with an opening “Bertha”>“Greatest Story Ever Told” that has the stadium floor bouncing like martinets as the Dead, again, pull all of the right strings. Well, they ain’t ready for a breather, just yet, as Garcia veers them into a solid “Cold Rain and Snow” that continues the thunder of the opening trio.

The Flaming Lips - Video Overview In Deceleration DVD

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Music videos have gotten a bad rap since the glory days of MTV ended. In the 80’s, as you may remember, it was all about the music video. The once-revolutionary medium has enjoyed some ecstatic highs and embarrassing lows over the past 20-plus years, and an entire generation of music lovers has been along for the ride. Currently, it seems that the possibilities have been nearly exhausted for music videos. When you can actually catch a video between the endless array of reality (i.e., filming stuff that happens) shows and teenage slop on MTV, it’s never much of an experience.

Garage A Trois - Outre Mer CD

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The fact that Garage a Trois consists of guitar innovator Charlie Hunter, drummer extraordinaire Stanton Moore, saxophone maniac Skerik, and mallet-slinger Mike Dillon seems like enough to make anything they might record immediately desirable. It’s a joy to experience the foursome’s latest effort, which is as good as you might expect, and then some.

Hitting the High Notes - 2004 High Sierra Music Festival DVD

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The goal of any good music film is to show what it was like to be at the venue when sparks flew from the stage, not necessarily the truth of the moments captured but the essence of the event that transpired. Most celluloid sequences just don’t get the job done—cutaway shots to insignificant visual images, show-offy camera angles that disrupt the flow of the music, short-changed artists with solos edited and brutal slices that choose not to expose the skinned-knee portions of any really good musical set.

String Cheese Incident - One Step Closer CD

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One Step Closer is a unique collective from all angles. Each the band members contributed at least 2 songs to this album, with some of this material being new while other songs been road tested. The String Cheese Incident has taken all the years of touring and brought together a full studio sound of distinctive songs. For their fifth album, SCI has further proven themselves as musicians with talent, insight, and some old fashioned innovation.

Brothers Past - This Feeling's Called Goodbye CD

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Brothers Past have spent much of the second half of their career trying to distinguish themselves from their trancefusionist Philadelphia brethren. 2002’s insomniac concept, A Wonderful Day, was a valiant effort, but the extended trance jams and weak, throaty vocals left the quartet still bouncing along with Philly’s crooked-capped, hippie-hop dreadheads, and the sad reality is that, fair or unfair, that audience carries the jamband stamp. As limiting as the j-word may be, however, the dubious distinction does allow the quartet an honor they wouldn’t receive otherwise. Whatever a jamband is, if Brothers Past is one, they’ve made the jam scene’s best pop record to date, in the most unaffected sense of the word. This Feeling’s Called Goodbye is focused, well-written, undoubtedly popular music that doesn’t let its abundant hooks tear its indie-art head or its improvisational heart to shreds.

Mecca Bodega - Skin CD

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About midway through “Skin,” I felt like I was in some deep forest out in the middle of nowhere – lost and directionless but not really caring as long as I could lay under the tall trees and listen to the sound magic being projected all around. Speakers on branches on giant bark monoliths? Actually, I was in that environment in a way. “Forest” is track six on an eleven track World Percussion masterwork that keeps the listener transfixed under an intoxicating spell.

John Brown's Body - Pressure Points

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When I first played this CD, I thought: “What a goddamn buzz kill.” The sound was routine reggae trapped by mundane lyrics and a sound WAY too clean for my Richards/Page/Cobain-corrupted ears. Then the force of John Brown’s Body kicked in…I hadn’t really heard a combination of notes played quite like this in a reggae setting. This form of music isn’t that easy to play as so many greats have towered over the genre for decades.

Maktub - Say What You Mean CD

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The best rock and soul album of the year with the best soul singer in America (at least until Mike Mattison of the Derek Trucks Band releases another CD).

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