Mission Creek Festival


MARCH 27-APRIL 1, 2012, THE 7TH ANNUAL FESTIVAL INCLUDES LITERARY AND CULINARY EVENTS, AS WELL AS COMEDIANS DAVID CROSS, JON BENJAMIN, JON GLASER AND MORE

Tuesday, February 7, 2012- Iowa City, IA – The seventh annual Mission Creek Festival returns March 27-April 1, 2012. Mission Creek Festival is a weeklong experience that takes over the venues and spaces of downtown Iowa City–creating an easily navigated nexus of music, literature, food and art. As with past festivals, the upcoming event will feature a strong balance of national, international and regional musicians, writers and artists performing and exhibiting their work in downtown venues like the Englert Theatre, the Mill, Blue Moose Tap House, Public Space One, Java House, Gabe’s, the Yacht Club, Prairie Lights and many other traditional and non-traditional venues. As always, writers, small presses, and literary journals from across the country will appear alongside musical acts such as The Magnetic Fields, Sharon Van Etten, The War on Drugs, Bowerbirds, Seun Kuti & Egypt 80, Black Milk, Tim Hecker, William Elliott Whitmore, and many more. In addition, Mission Creek is hosting an artist-in-residency program this year during which Dirty Beaches and Wet Hair will be recording a 7″ and also during which Erase Errata will be cutting their next album in Iowa City.

The event is not just a series of concerts, readings and shows: it is a happening — a gathering that brings together artists and culture-lovers in the cozy, intimate confines of Iowa City. Every venue is within five minutes of every other venue. The largest venues rarely hold more than 750 people and sometimes the smallest hold just 50 people. Whether it’s warm or cool outside, Iowa City remains a great walking town: in between events, go eat at the diner where presidential candidates vie for the ears of caucus voters or grab a beer where folks like Raymond Carver and Kurt Vonnegut used to hang out. And then head back out to another show. Whatever you do, have a great time.

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MISSION CREEK FESTIVAL LINEUP / MUSIC
The Magnetic Fields
David Cross
Seun Kuti & Egypt 80
William Elliott Whitmore
Justin Townes Earle
Black Milk
Sharon Van Etten
Tim Hecker
Rhys Chatham
Leslie & the Ly’s
The War On Drugs
Kimya Dawson
The Antlers
Dirty Beaches
Bowerbirds
Jon Benjamin
Jon Glaser
Mike Doughty
Little Scream
Oberhofer
Erase Errata
Like Pioneers
Caroline Smith & the Goodnight Sleeps
Rene Hell
Lulacruza
The Daredevil Christopher Wright
Golden Birds
The Poison Control Center
Wet Hair
Muscle Drum
Denison Witmer
Weed Wolf
Grand Tetons
Christopher the Conquered
Mumfords
The Olympics
T’Bone
The Lonelyhearts
Alexis Stevens
The Savage Young Taterbug
Ion
Kelly Hogan
Rich Rok
Super Sonic Piss
Lwa
Death Ships

MISSION CREEK FESTIVAL LINEUP: WRITERS
Luis Alberto Urrea
Amelia Gray
Michael Kimball
Robert Hass
Amber Tamblyn
Mike Doughty
Matt Hart
T Fleischmann
Robin Hemley
Michael Martone
Zach Dodson
Caroline Picard
Lindsay Hunter
Aaron Burch
Adam Novy
Roxanne Gay
Robert Stewart
Ben Furnish
Linda Rodriguez
And many more…

For more information, visit [http://missionfreak.com/]

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