Rock The Bell Announces Venues, Additions To Lineup
09:01 AM,
Wednesday 4/29/09
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North America’s only major, regularly touring hip-hop festival, Rock The Bells, has announced venues to go with the cities and dates revealed three weeks ago.
Promoted by Guerilla Union, the tour features all the sheds that made North America famous, such as Chicago’s First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre hosting the tour’s kick-off date on June 27.
City Stages, Birmingham, Ala.
June 13, 2008
(Scott Legato / RockStarProPhotography.com)
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The next stop is that little community north of Detroit known as Clarkston, Mich., home of the DTE Energy Music Theatre and where you can catch Rock The Bells on June 28.
Other venues include Toronto’s Molson Amphitheatre (July 5); Merriweather Post Pavilion, located in the Washington D.C., market but actually in Columbia, Md. (July 12); the Comcast Center in Mansfield, Mass. (July 18); Nikon @ Jones Beach Theatre in Wantagh, N.Y. (July 19); Deer Lake Park located outside Vancouver, B.C., in the town of Burnaby (August 1); Denver’s Red Rocks Amphitheatre (August 6); San Manuel Amphitheatre in Devore, Calif. (August 8); and the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, Calif. (August 9).
Guerilla Union also announced additions to the tour, with Busta Rhymes, GZA and The Knux joining a lineup already consisting of Nas & Damian “Jr. Gong” Marley, The Roots, Big Boi, Common and more.
Busta Rhymes gives a shout out to Los Angeles' Universal Amphitheatre.
March 28, 2002
(Jen Lowery)
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There will also be a unique version of KRS-One’s Temple of Hip-Hop constructed at each tour stop, an area for “producing unique fan experiences dedicated to cultivating hip-hop culture.”
Plans are for the Temple to host guest speakers, workshops, art displays, book signings, lectures and whatever else might “help educate and expand perspective on hip-hop."
Tickets for select markets go on sale Saturday, May 2. For more information, please click here for the Guerilla Union Web Site.
--Jay Smith