Get the power to see more! Cincinnati’s MidPoint Music Festival (MPMF) announced today that music fans can now reserve a 3-day wristband pass offering the opportunity to see all performances for this year’s festival, September 25–27, 2008.

The $29 wristband pass, available for pre-order at mpmf.com, provides festival attendees access to 17 stages and concerts by all MidPoint bands. To order a wristband pass, click on the “SEE IT ALL” button on the MidPoint homepage. Venue admission is subject to legal capacity.

New Producers. New Features.
Cincinnati alternative newsweekly CityBeat is producing MidPoint Music Festival for the first time in the event’s seven-year history. New this year will be an expansion of venues into Downtown, along with many of the historic-Over-the-Rhine neighborhood locations used in the past. Two groups of stages are equally divided north and south of Central Parkway, making it easy to walk between venues, and festival transportation will also be available.

“MidPoint is dedicated to fostering growth within Over-the-Rhine and Downtown,” said Dan McCabe, executive producer. “All the recent discussion about Cincinnati possibly getting streetcars in the central part of the city led us to think it would be cool to show folks the proposed streetcar route, which conveniently works with these venues. It’ll give them a real taste of the streetcar movement.”

To demonstrate the potential of Cincinnati streetcars, MidPoint sponsor Scion is making 20 xB crossover vehicles available to help festival attendees cruise between the uptown and downtown clubs along the proposed streetcar route. Less walking means more listening.

The Cincinnati Art Museum hosts One World Wednesdays (OWW). This event is a cocktail hour that takes place on the first Wednesday of the month and features a different world culture through art, music, and wine. This event is free to members of the art museum and costs non-members only $8. OWW is one of the many multicultural and worldly events that Cincinnati has to offer its residents and visitors. This event attracts community groups and individuals alike to celebrate some of the cultures that live together in Cincinnati, as well as provide a social setting for its participants to network with other professionals. The next OWW is scheduled for February 6th and will highlight Japan.

Part of living in a city like Cincinnati is that there is such a variety of activities all around. One of the great things that we found is a fantastic community symphony orchestra. The Seven Hills Sinfonietta is an unbelievable collection of the city’s most talented armature musicians. Their musical repertoire is nothing short of professional and they sound as good as any professional symphony I have ever heard. Coming up on March 16th at B’nai Tzedek in Kenwood, they will be performing Debussy’s Prelude a l’apres-midi d’une faune and Ravel’s Scheherazade. Below is a YouTube video of the Ravel so you can appreciate the complexity of music that this group takes on. I hope to see you all there, admission is free.