Previewing this year’s BOOM Charlotte festivale Here’s an excerpt:
QC Life’s Jorge Andres went out to get a sneak peek of this year’s BOOM Charlotte festival…
Experience arts & culture at Boom Charlotte Here’s an excerpt:
Our partners, the Charlotte Poetry Festival, share insights about what to expect at their festival and at their performance on the BOOM Charlotte stage. Take a look at their interview for more…
8 things to do this weekend in the Charlotte area | QC Happenings Here’s an excerpt:
Check out the listing of things to do created by WCNC. They included BOOM Charlotte. See the video and listing…
Charlotte’s 2024 BOOM festival promises dance, poetry and weird, wonderful art Here’s an excerpt:
Hula hoops, youth poets, psychedelic performance art, and dance troupes representing cultures around the world. These are a few of the sights and sounds that will fill Camp North End this weekend at the seventh annual BOOM festival.
The three-day event, which kicks off Friday, celebrates contemporary and experimental art on the fringes of pop culture. The festival’s founder, Manoj Kesavan, joined…
Queen City Nerve announces 2024 BOOM Festival. Here’s an excerpt:
Queen City Nerve selected 10 artists to recommend checking out April 26-28 at Camp North End during BOOM.
What started as a small arts festival in the heart of Plaza Midwood has in eight years bloomed — or boomed, one might say — into a year-round art initiative that brings art to those who lack access to Charlotte’s larger art scene.
This weekend marks the seventh annual celebration of that initiative…
The City of Charlotte reports: Experience Arts & Culture at BOOM Charlotte. Here’s an excerpt:
The Charlotte Arts & Culture Plan is doing an installation at BOOM Charlotte April 26-28.
The City of Charlotte is also excited to share that this year we are launching our 10-year plan to support arts and culture in Charlotte, Show & Tell: Celebrating Our Community’s New Arts and Culture Plan. The partnership with BOOM will feature several exciting activities including…
QNotes Carolinas shares an interview with Charlotte-based poet LuvLeeh. Here’s an excerpt:
Charlotte-based poet, Luvleeh, speaks with Q Notes Carolinas about her life as she gets ready for her BOOM Charlotte performance April 26-28.
About four decades ago a music teacher and a substance abuse counselor had a lovely baby girl. Today, she’s all grown up and goes by the name Luvleeh, though her parents named her Leandrea Juanita Hill.
Hill adopted a new name, a hybrid of her birth name. Initially, the change came about as a result of her need to create an email account with a sign-on name that hadn’t yet been taken. But it was bigger than that.…
Queen City Nerve says: BOOM Charlotte Arts Festival Returns for Three-Day Run. Here’s an excerpt:
BOOM Charlotte will return to Camp North End this weekend for a three-day festival of free outdoor performances, installations and activities highlighting Charlotte fringe and experimental artists, as well as ticketed indoor art performances.
Launched by Manoj Kesavan in 2016, the festival relocated from its usual Plaza Midwood location to Camp North End in 2022 after a two-year hiatus due to COVID-19. This year, BOOM is returning to its pre-COVID three-day run, in comparison to last year’s two days, with hopes of drawing in a larger audience…
QNotes Carolinas says: BOOM Charlotte returns to Camp North End for three-day festival. Here’s an excerpt:
BOOM Charlotte, the eclectic arts festival created by artists to showcase innovative work and emerging artists is back at it again, this year at Camp North End (1824 Statesville Ave.) for a three-day run beginning Friday, April 21 (5pm to 10pm), continuing Saturday, April 22, (12pm to 10pm) and wrapping up Sunday, April 23, 12pm to 8pm
Last year BOOM relocated to Camp North End from the Plaza Midwood neighborhood…
Charlotte Ledger says: BOOM Charlotte has created space for local artists. Here’s an excerpt:
When the Democratic National Convention came to Charlotte in 2012 to nominate President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden for re-election, the host committee had no plans to highlight local or regional art. Manoj Kesavan decided to take matters into his own hands.
Kesavan and his informal artist collective designed a showcase of over 80 street performances including spoken word, theater and musical performances that received international…
QCity Metro says BOOM Festival seeks diverse talent for 2023 return in Charlotte. Here’s an excerpt:
BOOM Festival seeks diverse talent for 2023[/caption] BOOM is strongly centric on showcasing artists of color, as evident by previous events. The last festival showcased talent that was mostly made up of Black artists.
BOOM Charlotte will return to its full scale after a two-year hiatus next spring. The festival currently has an open call for local talent to participate in the 2023 experience.
WBTV says ‘A Poet Named Superman,’ is “Charlotte is Creative’s” new best friend! Here’s an excerpt:
Greg Murray is a poet/spoken-word artist and goes by the stage name ‘A Poet Named Superman.’
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (QC Life) – Today, we’re getting to know a little bit about Greg Murray, Charlotte is Creative’s new best friend! Murray is a poet/spoken-word artist and goes by the stage name ‘A Poet Named Superman.’
He’s set to perform Friday night at the BOOM Charlotte festival.
