BestFest Coverage Recap
The Houston Press certainly didn’t lack coverage of their inaugural Best Of Houston BestFest. As I spent half of both days wandering back and forth from stage to stage, enjoying myself, I snapped a great many photos for Rocks Off. See them, along with photos from Marco Torres and Jason Wolter, in the slideshows and blogs below.
Saturday Coverage
BestFest Is Officially Off The Ground
The Last Place You Look Rolls In The Deep, And All That Jazz
Chamillionaire, Starmaker; The Tontons, New Stars
Slim Thug’s Sweet Tooth, Against Me! Destroys, Bun B Trills
Bun B, Rap God; Toadies Close Out With A Shred
Sunday Coverage
Umbrella Man, Texans On
Wild Moccasins Made In The Shade, Little Joe Rips
Honky Tonk Brothers Draw Blood, Carolyn Wonderland Laps The Field
Buxton Incites Swoons, Deer Tick Get A Little Goofy
Hayes Carll Strikes Up The Band, Cake Shuts It Down
Last Night: Cake At BestFest (Cake set review by John Seaborn Gray)
Slideshows
Saturday’s Bands
Sunday’s Bands
The BestFest Crowd
Bites of BestFest
Phew! That’s all I’ve got. I’ll leave you with one last photo, a favorite of mine from the weekend.
Yesterday the Houston Press announced still more additions to the BestFest lineup. Festival goers can now look forward to witnessing Los Skarnales, The Last Place You Look, Nick Gaitan & The Umbrella Man, the Honky Tonk Blood trio of John Evans, Craig Kinsey and Hank Schyma, and as they added later in the day, Hell City Kings.
Tickets and additional information is available at bestfesthouston.com
(via Rocks Off)
Source: blogs.houstonpress.com
Chamillionaire Comes Aboard BestFest Lineup - Rocks Off
The Houston Press crew has been slowly leaking headliners for their two-day BestFest festival at Main & McGowen on September 24 and 25.
Chamillionaire is the latest to be announced, and his appearance will be his first public concert in Houston this year.
Tickets are available now at bestfesthouston.com.
Major BestFest Lineup Announcement Coming Wednesday - Rocks Off
Rocks Off teased everyone yesterday with the promise that another big name (or more?) will be announced today, post-lunch.
Thus, we’ll advise everyone to check out the blog around 1 or 2 p.m. to find out more details.
Meanwhile, BestFest tickets are on sale at $25 for the two-day festival, with prices set to increase on September 1.
Bun B, Deer Tick Come Aboard BestFest Lineup - Rocks Off
This one’s pretty simple. Like the link says, Bun B and Deer Tick have been confirmed for the Houston Press BestFest on September 24 and 25.
I’m not terribly surprised - remember that thing about a hot tip? But it certainly is nice to see everything worked out with these artists.
There’s no word on schedule yet, and the Press has promised to announce more artists soon. My guess is that Deer Tick and Buxton will wind up on the same day, though.
Cake, Buxton Confirmed For First-Ever BestFest - Rocks Off
So, Houston Press’ annual Best Of Houston awards has now spiraled into a two-day music festival, appropriately called BestFest, on the weekend September 24 and 25.
The Press just confirmed that Cake and Buxton are two of the featured acts, with several more to be announced - likely this week. HTR has a hot tip on who a few of those names might be, but we’ll remain hushed until they’ve been confirmed.
Tickets for the festival will go on sale Friday morning at 10 A.M., and start at $25.
