Merge Records, following the success of this spring's Superchunk/Arcade Fire double bills for Obama, has decided to help organize two more events for the Obama campaign. The shows will center on driving early voters to the polls, by luring them with the promise of live sets from acts including The dB's, Superchunk (acoustic, no less), The Reigning Sound, Tift Merritt, Portastatic, Bowerbirds, Megafaun, I Was Totally Destroying It, Greg Humphreys, Ivan Howard of The Rosebuds, etc...
Details, as per a Merge press release, are as follows:
With help from the Obama Campaign and a bunch of great North Carolina musicians, we've set up two concerts to promote voting and more specfically voting EARLY to help turn NC blue for Barack Obama.NC ROCKS FOR CHANGE free concerts during the last week of EARLY VOTING in NC!Asheville, NC10/28 @ The Grey EagleBands start at 8pmChris Stamey (dBs)Greg Humphreys (Hobex)Electric Owls (ex Comas)TICKETS FREE!Pick them up when you vote this week outside UNC-Asheville's Zeis Hall, which is by the Quad at 1 University Heights. Tickets will be handed out beginning at 10 am on Thursday, October 23rd, and will remain there during voting hours until they are all given away- so from 10-6, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Monday.*** AND ***Chapel Hill, NC11/1 @ Graham Terrace at UNC(Adjacent to the Morehead Planetarium Early Voting Site)VOTE on the LAST DAY OF EARLY VOTING!9 AM until 1 PMEnjoy Coffee, Doughnuts and Rock while you vote!Superchunk (acoustic)Check www.NCForChange.com for updates and information.UPDATE: Add BILLY BRAGG to the Chapel Hill show. Holy shit. (So says Raleigh News & Observer music critic David Menconi)
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