Blog: The Decibel Tolls

Cincinnati's Midpoint Music Festival is awesome. For 2011, the organization got their shit together and observed what works and what doesn't with multi-venue urban festivals like CMJ and SXSW, while also making the three-day festival a uniquely Queen City venture. As opposed to past years, Midpoint condensed their territory to strictly the Central Avenue and 12th corridor between downtown and Over The Rhine. No venue was more than a 10 minute walk from MPMF's epicenter - the Midpoint Midway, packed with visual artists, installations, delicious grub solutions, and a giant Connect Four game. This meant that non-venue spaces [...]