{"id":13885,"date":"2015-06-09T21:04:11","date_gmt":"2015-06-10T01:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=13885"},"modified":"2016-07-03T08:48:20","modified_gmt":"2016-07-03T12:48:20","slug":"toronto-urban-roots-festival-adds-the-pixies-more-to-2015-line-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=13885","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Urban Roots Festival adds The Pixies + more to 2015 line-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto\u2019s TURF (Toronto Urban Roots Festival)\u00a0has added\u00a0The Pixies\u00a0as Sunday-night headliners. Also added to the bill are\u00a0Heartless Bastards, Jim Bryson,\u00a0Hop Along and\u00a0Kitty, Daisy &amp; Lewis.\u00a0TURF has also added an acoustic stage to\u00a0TURF Kids Area\u00a0with programming all day on Saturday and Sunday including children&#8217;s performers\u00a0Rattle &amp; Strum\u00a0and\u00a0Kathy Reid-Naiman.\u00a0Click\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/stagefrightpublicity.us9.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=9483419c321081821c0b1a040&amp;id=7e6c8fdd76&amp;e=0389613713\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>\u00a0for more information about each day\u2019s festival lineup. All single day\u00a0tickets are on sale now\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/stagefrightpublicity.us9.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=9483419c321081821c0b1a040&amp;id=fffa4ac5c8&amp;e=0389613713\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/stagefrightpublicity.us9.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=9483419c321081821c0b1a040&amp;id=28395055f5&amp;e=0389613713\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/stagefrightpublicity.us9.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=9483419c321081821c0b1a040&amp;id=fbc5dc96a0&amp;e=0389613713\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.\u00a0 Single tickets early-bird pricing ends June 24th. The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/stagefrightpublicity.us9.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=9483419c321081821c0b1a040&amp;id=b984806a33&amp;e=0389613713\" target=\"_blank\">TURF 3 day pass<\/a>\u00a0is the best way to experience the festival with in and out privileges and a cost saving equivalent of getting one free day of TURF. Early bird pricing for 3 day passes ends tomorrow (June 10).<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EHC9HE7vazI?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-CA&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Some of the 2015 artists\u00a0will also do double duty by playing\u00a0TURF&#8217;s Club Bonus Series\u00a0happening September 16-22. Artist announcements for TURF Club Bonus Series will be made in early July giving\u00a0the opportunity to catch\u00a0artists\u00a0twice.<\/p>\n<p>A very limited number of\u00a0TURF VIP PLUS\u00a0passes on sale, which guarantee\u00a0entry into TURF\u2019s Club Bonus Series,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/stagefrightpublicity.us9.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=9483419c321081821c0b1a040&amp;id=f29a88ae9f&amp;e=0389613713\" target=\"_blank\">TURF\u2019s Preview Club Series Shows<\/a>\u00a0as well as VIP Front and Side of stage access at the festival.\u00a0 More Club Bonus Series show will be announced on July 6 and July 21.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on TURF, visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/stagefrightpublicity.us9.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=9483419c321081821c0b1a040&amp;id=fcabb20fee&amp;e=0389613713\" target=\"_blank\">torontourbanrootsfest.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Toronto\u2019s TURF (Toronto Urban Roots Festival)\u00a0has added\u00a0The Pixies\u00a0as Sunday-night headliners. Also added to the bill are\u00a0Heartless Bastards, Jim Bryson,\u00a0Hop Along and\u00a0Kitty, Daisy &amp; Lewis.\u00a0TURF has <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=13885\" title=\"Toronto Urban Roots Festival adds The Pixies + more to 2015 line-up\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13886,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[25,28,1907,36],"tags":[2471,1426,1195,2900,2899],"class_list":["post-13885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-live","category-music","category-news","category-toronto","tag-2471","tag-festival","tag-the-pixies","tag-toronto-urban-roots-festival","tag-turf"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/TURF.jpg?fit=699%2C800","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2B2TV-3BX","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":22150,"url":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=22150","url_meta":{"origin":13885,"position":0},"title":"Toronto Urban Roots Festival (TURF) adds Ween and Modern Baseball to 2016 line-up","author":"cultureaddicts","date":"June 24, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Toronto Urban Roots Fest\u00a0(TURF) is back at\u00a0Fort York Garrison Common\u00a0Historical Site\u00a0on\u00a0September 16th-18th. 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