If you have ever been a traveler and wanted to connect with your destination’s music scene, often you had to stop at a local coffee shop to pick up an arts newspaper and quickly scan the pages for an act that caught your eye.
From there you would bypass analog in that classic modern form as you reach for your handheld device to take a quick spin on the world wide web to discover a track listing of the act you were seeking to catch or connect with while in the city. Headphones on, you press play and often press the “advance” button while you wait to make the connection.
This happens all over the world and has not changed much over time. That is, until radi8er Music debuted as a new platform to connect local music to those seeking to expand their music experience beyond what would be more traditional (wait and see radio), or the very corporately-controlled stations decided what they wanted you to hear via satellite radio stations.
Rapid Growth has
already written about an exciting new platform, radi8er, in May when it debuted to the public as a beta. This Saturday they are expanding their concert arms to reach out and invite the curious public to experience a wealth of local musical talent all held in one spot and on one special day.
Billed as the “world’s first hyper-local, crowd-powered, real-time, music discovery platform,” radi8er’s new
Sound Of The City (Grand Rapids) 2016 festival offers attendees the chance to soak up the songs of our river city via a very diverse array of acts.
Event & Artist Schedule:
12:00 PM: Doors open.
1:00 PM: Vox Vidorra
2:00 PM: Moto
3:00 PM: Olivia Mainville & The Aquatic Troupe
4:00 PM: Valentiger
5:00 PM: Lipstick Jodi
6:00 PM: Lady Ace Boogie
7:00 PM: Full Catastrophe
8:00 PM: Ty Beat
9:00 PM: The Legal Immigrants
10:00 PM: Event Close
Cash bar, beverages, and food-carts will be available throughout the event.
Learn more at:
http://www.radi8er.com/ or buy tickets
here.
Admission: $8 (early pre-sale), $10 ticket, and $30 ticket & T-shirt offer.