Backbone Bluegrass Festival 1358 110th St, Strawberry PointThe Backbone Bluegrass Festival has been around since 1981 and brings a mix of bluegrass, country and gospel acts to the northeast corner of Iowa. Held in Strawberry Point on the last weekend of July, this summer’s fest is Friday to Sunday, July 26-28. Aspiring musicians can check […]
Hinterland Music Festival
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Hinterland Music Festival announces three-day 2023 lineup featuring Bon Iver, Zach Bryan, Maggie Rogers
On Tuesday morning, Hinterland Music Festival announced the lineup for its eighth festival to take place during the first weekend in August 2023. The 2023 festival will span across three days instead of the four-day lineup organizers tried in 2022. HELLO from 2023.Head over to https://t.co/HfzQnRQrMU for all that good presale info. pic.twitter.com/KRp0f038xs — Hinterland […]
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Bring your own TP, and other tips from Iowa summer music festival regulars
It’s that magical time of year again! Festival season is back and that means wristband tan lines, sipping craft beer with buddies and seeing all your favorite bands onstage. Although most festivals took a hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many are back this year in full force. Alongside national favorites like Coachella, South-By-Southwest, Bonnaroo […]
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Hinterland Music Festival announces four-day 2022 lineup including Glass Animals, Phoebe Bridgers, Nathaniel Rateliff and the Nightsweats
“Heading to Iowa for a corn shuckin, bluegrass lovin good time,” Grammy-winning songwriter Billy Strings tweeted Tuesday. Strings will kick off the four-day 2022 Hinterland Music Festival on Thursday, Aug. 4 in St. Charles, Iowa, festival organizers announced Tuesday morning. English group Glass Animals will headline the second day of the festival. Nathaniel Rateliff and […]
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Hinterland announces huge headliners for a smaller, COVID-conscious festival
The same day Bonnaroo — one of the biggest outdoor music festivals in the country, set in Tennessee — announced the Avett Brothers would be headlining their Concerts on the Farm series this summer, Iowa’s own farm-based fest declared they’d snagged the powerhouse folk-rock group as well. The Avett Brothers, Leon Bridges, Tyler Childers, Old […]
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Hinterland cancels 2020 festival, but plans to bring headliners back next summer
After three days of rousing, high-profile performances from the likes of Hozier, Kacey Musgraves and Brandi Carlile in 2019, the Hinterland Music Festival had momentum going into their sixth-annual fest. Then COVID-19 happened. Like the organizers of Mission Creek Festival, Iowa City Jazz Fest, Camp Euforia and dozens of other Iowa concert events before them, […]
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Leon Bridges, Of Monsters and Men, Old Crow Medicine Show and more set for Hinterland Fest
Iowans will be rockin’ like a wagon wheel at the sixth annual Hinterland Music Festival, Friday, July 31 to Sunday, Aug. 2. On Tuesday, Fest organizers announced 24 artists on their 2020 lineup, including classic country stars, alt-rock bands and everything in between.
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Elizabeth Moen to perform new songs at the Englert Saturday, joined by Penny Peach Jr. and Dana T
There’s a touch of destiny, or perhaps buddy comedy, about Elizabeth Moen and Penny Peach Jr.’s artistic partnership. Originally from Norwalk, Iowa, Peach — her real name Elly Hofmaier, previously known by the stage name Elly h. — was about to start her freshman year at the University of Iowa when a friend played her some of Moen’s music.
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Hozier, Brandi Carlile, Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit announced for 2019 Hinterland Music Festival
The fifth annual Hinterland Music Festival announced its headliners today, which include Irish folk rocker Hozier, Alabama alt-country group Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit, Americana artist and Hinterland alumna Brandi Carlile, country singer-songwriter Kacey Musgraves, eight-piece soul group St. Paul and The Broken Bones and more.
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Roots rock country superstar Sturgill Simpson to headline Hinterland Festival
The Hinterland Festival 2018 lineup includes Sturgill Simpson, Band of Horses, Chvrches and more.
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Hinterland set to return to St. Charles, Iowa
Hinterland Music Festival Avenue of the Saints Amphitheater — Aug. 5-6 The Hinterland Music Festival just announced that they will return to the Avenue of the Saints Amphitheater in St. Charles, Iowa on Friday and Saturday, Aug. 5-6, 2016. The teaser announcement offered no further details regarding line-up, ticketing or camping, but confirmed the date […]
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Hinterland 2015: ‘The Lands Behind’ are far ahead
One does not simply go to the Hinterland. The organizers — or perhaps the gods — made this abundantly clear during the festival’s inaugural year when flooding demanded a last-minute shift away from the original location in the heart of Des Moines, to a space more worthy of the Teutonic title — “Hinterland.” In German, […]
