The Heights Music Festival returns this weekend for its fall event and another wide-ranging sampling of Cincinnati’s original music scene. Music will run Friday and Saturday night from 7 p.m. until about closing time at four venues in Clifton Heights near the University of Cincinnati campus — Baba Budan’s, Mac’s Pizza Pub, Christy’s Biergarten and Rohs Street Café (the only location open to music lovers of all ages).
Here’s the full lineup/schedule for this year.
FRIDAY
Rohs Street Cafe
: 7:00 – Music Resource Center showcase; 8:00 – Wendy’s Yellow Poncho;
9:00 – MC Forty and Wonder Brown
; 10:00 – Cowgirl;
11:00 – The Yugos
Baba Budan’s: 8:00 – Sulla; 9:00 – Second Chance At Eden; 10:00 – Damn It To Hell ; 11:00 – Buenos Crotches ; 12:00 – Grey Host
Mac’s Pizza Pub: 8:00 – The Celestials; 9:00 – Majestic Man ; 10:00 – The MJ’s Blues ; 11:00 – Hickory Robot; 12:00 – Jeremy Pinnell & The 55′s; 1:00 – The Founding Fathers
Christy’s Biergarten: 8:00 – The Marmalade Brigade; 9:00 – The Heavy Hinges; 10:00 – The Perfect Children; 11:00 – Shrub (Columbus, OH); 12:00 – The Guitars
SATURDAY
Rohs Street Cafe
: 7:00 – Elementz Hip Hop Youth Center showcase;
8:00 – Alex Evans
; 9:00 – For Algernon
; 10:00 – Young Heirlooms
; 11:00 – Oui Si Yes
Baba Budan’s: 8:00 – Pursuing Hounds ; 9:00 – Sweet Ray Laurel ; 10:00 – Jamwave; 11:00 – The Regrettes (Columbus, OH); 12:00 – The Natives
Mac’s Pizza Pub: 8:00 – Tangerine Sound Machine ; 9:00 – Somebody’s Something ; 10:00 – Big Rock Club ; 11:00 – Valley High ; 12:00 – Junya Be & Wazali
Christy’s Biergarten : 8:00 – Killer Looks & Noise ; 9:00 – Horsecop; 10:00 – Loudmouth; 11:00 – Black Signal ; 12:00 – DAAP Girls; 1:00 – The Frankl Project
Tickets are $5 per night if purchased in advance through cincyticket.com here. Admission is $8 for one night or $12 for both if purchased at the festival. Visit the fest’s official site here for more info. Here’s a sampler the organizers compiled featuring some of the performers:
This article appears in Nov 7-13, 2012.
