Transfigurations II

Posted on by Alli Marshall
Island music: Lee Fields & The Expressions will perform on Marshall’s Blannahassett Island. Photo courtesy of the musician

Confirmed acts include:

  • The Clean — indie-rock from New Zeleand, formed in 1978
  • Lee Fields & The Expressions — soul, led by native North Carolinian Fields
  • Mudhoney — grunge from Seattle, formed in 1988
  • Michael Hurley — singer-songwriter and guitarist, boyhood friend of Jesse Colin Young
  • Moon Duo — psychedelic-rock from San Francisco
  • Angel Olsen — singer-songwriter, now based in Asheville
  • Mount Eerie — the solo project of Anacortes, Washington-based musician Phil Elverum
  • Sonny & The Sunsets — beach-pop from San Francisco
  • Endless Boogie — rule-breaking rockers from New York City
  • Reigning Sound — garage-rock from Asheville (sort of)
  • The Sadies — country rock band formed in Toronto in 1994
  • Steve Gunn — singer-songwriter (formerly of Kurt Vile’s The Violators) from Brooklyn
  • Bassholes — rock ’n’ roll from Columbus, Ohio
  • Disappears — shoegaze and krautrock from Chicago
  • Kevin Morby — singer-songwriter and bassist for Woods
  • Quilt — psychedelic indie-rock band from Boston
  • Sir Richard Bishop — guitarist and singer-songwriter
  • Pete Swanson — experimental electronic/noise artist
  • William Tyler — indie-rolk artist, former member of Lambchop and Silver Jews
  • Fountainsun — project of Daniel Higgs of Baltimore’s Lungfish
  • Wooden Wand — psychedelic-folk project of singer-songwriter James Jackson Toth
  • EDJ — solo project of Eric D. Johnson of Fruit Bats and The Shins
  • Bitchin Bajas — experimental synth trio from Chicago
  • Axxa/Abraxas — psychedelic rock and art project of Ben Asbury from Athens, Ga.
  • Container — instrumental techno project of Ren Schofield from Providence, R.I.
  • Profligate — pre-techno dance from Noah Anthony
  • Dylan Golden Aycock — American primitive singer-songwriter and guitarist
  • Nest Egg — local psych and krautrock outfit and former Soft Opening members — A.M.
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About Alli Marshall
Alli Marshall has lived in Asheville for more than 20 years and loves live music, visual art, fiction and friendly dogs. She is the winner of the 2016 Thomas Wolfe Fiction Prize and the author of the novel "How to Talk to Rockstars," published by Logosophia Books. Follow me @alli_marshall
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