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For a short time Moog curated Moogfest in Asheville and later Raleigh. It was an amazing blend of music, technology, talks, culture, etc. I think it ran into some trouble towards the end of it's run. I ended up going once (solo) after a friend had to bail out last minute. It was one of the most fun and enriching music festivals I've ever attended. I can't imagine it coming back after this news. If anyone knows of anything similar that still exists I'd love to know about it.

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I went to one of those in 2016, the first one they had when they moved it to Raleigh (it was actually in downtown Durham). I loved it and sad that it's no longer happening. I saw some amazing acts, including Gary Numan doing a 3 night performance where each night he performed one of his first 3 albums (I only saw one of them)

Here's some more info about the 2016 lineup https://www.brooklynvegan.com/moogfest-announ/

There is a moogfest subreddit and it seemed like I went to a good one because the following ones weren't as well organized. But of course it's reddit and only hearing from a select few people

https://www.reddit.com/r/moogfest/comments/t3egho/is_moogfes...

That's right! I confuse Raleigh and Durham. I was at that same year. Highlights for me were floating points, blood orange, karen gwyer, bicep, a jamaican soundsystem soundclash out in the park, denzel curry, and a live performance by sam aaron live coding on his sonicpi software

Similarly, post-covid, I don’t know if it will come back as good and engaging as it was before, but the Ableton Loop conferences. I went to the one in Los Angeles and bought flights for the one in Berlin that got canceled during the pandemic.

Awesome hands-on sessions and live music. Don’t need to be an Ableton user.

If you have the means to get to Berlin, Superbooth is like a bigger version of what Moogfest was, all built around a giant GDR-era youth center.

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