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A news release from the Middle Waves Music Festival organizers:<\/p>\n

Middle Waves announces 2020 lineup<\/strong><\/p>\n

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(February 26, 2020) \u2014 Today, Middle Waves Music Festival announced the lineup for the 2020 festival, taking place on Friday, June 12, and Saturday, June 13, at Electric Works (east campus) and McCullouch Park on the edge of downtown Fort Wayne. Volunteer opportunities are also now available and listed on the website.<\/p>\n

Presented by Sweetwater Sound, Middle Waves is a two-day destination music featuring an eclectic mix of 20+ performers on two paid stages and one free stage. With music, interactive art installations, experience events, food trucks, beverages, and fun around every corner, people of all ages, backgrounds, and music preferences will have the time of their lives!<\/p>\n

This will be the fourth Middle Waves festival. Previous performers include The Flaming Lips, MGMT, Lizzo, and Dr. Dog, among many others. Middle Waves is committed to showcasing great music and bringing national acts to Fort Wayne that might not otherwise come to our community.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are thrilled to be back, and on the Electric Works campus this year,\u201d said festival co-chair Beth McAvoy. \u201cMiddle Waves is all about jaw-dropping, pride-inducing, and diverse music and art experiences. We can guarantee you\u2019ve never experienced something like this in Fort Wayne before.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOur lineup offers a little something for everyone,\u201d said festival co-chair and finance chair Sanee Lombari. \u201cWe have a proven track record of bringing amazing talent to Fort Wayne, like Lizzo and festival favorite Jax Anderson, formerly Flint Eastwood. We are proud of this year\u2019s talent mix.\u201d<\/p>\n

The festival will be headlined Saturday night by indie rock band Cold War Kids. Over the course of a dozen releases on major and indie labels alike, non-stop tours and the festival circuit\u2019s biggest stages, massive radio and streaming successes as well as a few lineup changes, Cold War Kids have become a major part of the modern scene.<\/p>\n

Their most recent album \u2013 New Age Norms 1 \u2013 was released November 1, 2019. New Age Norms will be a planned trilogy. Writing from urgent, of-the-moment perspectives in order to respect and reflect the day\u2019s normative behaviors and climate, lead singer Nathan Willett focused on a bird\u2019s eye view of the current values he was observing all around him \u2013 the new norms of class, gender, race, and power that are creating our modern world. The first volume\u2019s eight songs explore the connective tissue apparent to him in the landscape, with the sense of optimism and uplifting positivity he feels necessary to approach any issue, or song.<\/p>\n

Friday night headliner Big Boi, is from Atlanta, Georgia, a city that indisputably set the pace for modern hip-hop. Formerly one half of hip-hop duo OutKast, his solo career launched in 2010. Since, he\u2019s released four albums (the third, titled Big Grams, was created and recorded with group Phantogram). He\u2019s won seven GRAMMY awards as duo OutKast, including Album of the Year for 2003\u2019s Speakerboxx\/The Love Below.<\/p>\n

All Night, released in 2017, is arguably his most recognizable song. \u201cThe biggest hit of his solo career,\u201d according to Rolling Stone, the smash single soundtracked a high-profile Apple Animoji commercial, blew up radio, and clocked 40 million streams within a year. Apart from his music career, Big Boi is an active member of his community and devoted humanitarian, having launched the Big Kidz Foundation, a nonprofit which enriches the lives of youth in Atlanta, in 2006. He\u2019s also an avowed animal lover, providing a home to owls and dogs alike.<\/p>\n

Roots rocker Yola, from Bristol, England, released her critically acclaimed debut album Walk Through Fire in February 2019 and established herself as the queen of country soul from the very first note. Nine months later, she received four GRAMMY award nominations including Best New Artist. The album, produced by Dan Auerbach, is a contemporary twist on a traditional sonic tapestry of orchestral strings, fiddle, steel, and shimmering tremolo guitars. Walk Through Fire is a career-defining and genre-bending release from one of the most exciting emerging British artists in music today. The album received accolades including Rolling Stone\u2019s \u201cArtist You Need To Know\u201d and NPR Music\u2019s \u201cArtist To Watch in 2019\u201d who said Yola is \u201can artist sure to stun audiences for years to come.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yola has performed on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, NPR\u2019s Tiny Desk Concert, Jimmy Kimmel LIVE! and is the first taping of Austin City Limits for its 46th season. Yola\u2019s arresting vocals captivate with sincere tales of heartache and loves lost, forgotten, and broken.<\/p>\n

Rocker Ezra Furman, from Oakland, California, has nine studio releases, including 2019\u2019s Twelve Nudes and 2020\u2019s Sex Education Original Soundtrack, an acclaimed comedy on Netflix. \u201cOne of my goals in making music is to make the world seem bigger, and life seem larger,\u201d says Furman in her bio on her website. \u201cI want to be a force that tries to revive the human spirit rather than crush it, to open possibilities rather than close them down. Sometimes a passionate negativity is the best way to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Performers include<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

Friday, June 12<\/em><\/p>\n