Mark your calendar and keep your wallet in your pocket: Virgin Mobile FreeFest will return to Merriweather Post Pavilion on Sept. 10.
Tickets are, once again, totally free and will be given away Friday at 10 a.m.
At the top of the bill: The Ohio rock duo Black Keys, “[Forget] You” crooner Cee Lo Green, Gotham greats TV on the Radio, and rock and roll icon — and recent National Book Award winner! — Patti Smith.
“We just want people to see this festival as the list of the absolute coolest bands and stories of the moment,” Seth Hurwitz, chairman of promoter I.M.P. and producer of the festival, said in a statement.
Performers on the main stage also include masked DJ Deadmau5, Australian dance-rock troupe Cut Copy, folk princess Grace Potter and her band the Nocturnals, Texas rockers Okkervil River, pop rapper Big Sean and other acts, including Empire of the Sun, Two Door Cinema Club, Alberta Cross and Bombay Bicycle Club.
Promoters are also bringing back last year’s Dance Forest, which will include sets from Calvin Harris, Ghostland Observatory, !!!, Porter Robinson, Eclectic Method, Teddybears and James Murphy, whose now-defunct group LCD Soundsystem closed out last year’s FreeFest.
This will be FreeFest’s third year at Merriweather, after the event slimmed down from two days to one and relocated from Pimlico Race Course.
Tickets will be given away via Virgin Mobile Live’s Facebook page; you need to click “like” on the page in order to secure tickets.
And a heads-up to Virgin Mobile customers and those who have held festival tickets in the past five years: Promoters say you’ll be invited via text and e-mail to a private pre-giveaway to be held Thursday at 10 a.m.
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