Jason Sandford
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* It dumps $15 M into the local economy, with thousands of attendees spending the weekend downtown. Organizer Ashley Capps is adamant after three years: There are no plans to move Moogfest. What started in NYC is now rooted in our mountains, in the place Bob Moog himself called home.
* It brings talented creatives from all over the world to Asheville, introducing them to our city in its fall finery. NPR. Photographers and music journalists from top publications. Nas. Devo. The Flaming Lips. Thomas Dolby. Movers, shakers, innovators, all experiencing Asheville as a place of creative energy and excitement. Vocal fans of Asheville from Moogfest include les Claypool of Primus; artist and composer Brian Eno, who extended his stay during last year’s festival due to liking Asheville so much (he was regularly spotted downtown, taking morning walks); and Moby, a vegan who raved about his dining experience at Plant.
If everyone else is noticing what a great place Asheville is, don’t think the honored guests of Moogfest will be any different.
Source: instagram.com/Mural by Dustin Spagnola
* It honors the legacy of one of music’s great pioneers in his adopted and beloved hometown, reminding everyone that Asheville is the epicenter of the Moog legacy: His home, his family, his company (Moog Music, Inc.), and the nonprofit Bob Moog Foundation dedicated to igniting musical creativity in his name.
* It reminds the world that Ashevil
le is more than beer, food, hipsters, hippies and beautiful mountains. As the Google Doodle engineering team articulated during their Saturday panel, Bob Moog is the patron saint of the nerdy arts. Having killer beer, beautiful mountains and a lifetime’s worth of delicious restaurants to explore doesn’t stop Asheville from having a nerdy side.
Our other exports include a climactic data facility, and climate scientists. A scientific visualization community. Professional animators. HATCHFest and TEDxAsheville. An electronic music scene, and entrepreneurs of all stripes.
* It’s a great time. Its a major national music festival within your grasp, in your own back yard. It’s a steroid injection of a lifetime’s worth of great music into one crazy weekend.
Next year, you should go.
I am happy to see this event here but I do not dig electronic music so we will never go. There were plenty good shows the same weekend and I do hope that continues.
I don’t want Rush Limbaugh to come to Asheville
He would be better than the band Rush although I do not listen to him.
I might grumble about the people and the traffic, but to be honest, the Moogfest crowds are some of the nicest of the year.
Here’s to many more years of success… but book Rush!
Rush would be sweet at the Orange Peel!
So happy to live here now! Can’t wait for Moogfest 2013!
Should credit Dustin Spagnola for his mural of Bob..
Thank you. Done.