If you have been rubbing your hands together in eager anticipation of March’s Local Beer Local Band schedule, you can stop. WKNC and Tir Na Nog have pulled together quite a line up.

March 4 – The Loners, The Demon Beat and The Royal Nites

March 11 – I Was Totally Destroying It, Grey Gray Young and today the moon, tomorrow the sun

March 18 – Sunfold (CD release show) and Mount Weather

March 25 – Let Feedback Ring Festival with Free Electric State, The Bronzed Chorus and Veelee

Listen in for your chance to win tickets to these awesome local shows happening this week:

Tuesday, September 15th
Missing Cats @ Presented by Cat’s Cradle at Arts Center

Trail of Dead and Secret Machines @ Cat’s Cradle

Trail of Dead

Cowboy Mouth w/ Simplified @ Lincoln Theatre

Cowboy Mouth photo by Sandra O'Claire

Keegan Dewitt with Parachute Musical and Wakey Wakey @ Nightlight

Keegan Dewitt

Old Habits

Old Ceremony with Sunfold @ The Pour House

The Old Ceremony photo by Derek L Anderson

Zoso with Van Heaven @ Lincoln Theatre

Zoso

Who’s Bad with Barbarella @ Cat’s Cradle

Who's Bad

They Might Be Giants

Artsplosure, the Raleigh arts festival, celebrates thirty years this Saturday and Sunday with a little help from 88.1. WKNC is the media sponsor of the North Carolina Stage, which will feature music by Annuals’ alter-ego Sunfold and Mel Minton & the Wicked Mojos, winner of Artsplosure’s Be That Band contest.  Mel and his band will be opening for Saturday’s festival headliner Buckwheat Zydeco. Big Bad Vodoo Daddy will close things out on Sunday. WKNC favorites Lonnie Walker will also grace the main stage for a Saturday 6 p.m. performance.

The complete schedule, along with everything else Artsplosure has to offer, is at Artsplosure.org.