![]() set on Friday, Chicago’s Louis the Child will take the stage at 8:35 p.m. The track was so ubiquitous it was equally played among teenagers and their 40-something yoga moms, so something tells me we will see many of the ‘old heads’ out on Friday night.ĬAN’T-MISS ACTS: LOUIS THE CHILD, D-WREX, WIZ, BIG GIGANTICīefore Kaskade’s 9:50 p.m. If you didn’t know who Kaskade was by this time, you certainly did in 2009-2010 as his collaborative single with Deadmau5 called, “I Remember,” was literally everywhere. The next handful of years saw Kaskade release several singles that hit the Top 10 on Billboard Magazine’s Hot Dance Club charts, which led to him signing with U.S. Originally from Chicago, Kaskade moved to California in the early 2000s where he had the good fortune of landing an A&R gig at Om Records right as San Francisco was emerging as an epicenter for all things deep house. That said, imagine my reaction when I saw that the Breakaway team booked one of house music’s most popular acts to headline the Friday night lineup for the 2019 festival: Kaskade. The problem is that house music has historically been tricky to book in Grand Rapids. ![]() I was sitting at the top of the hill by myself watching Odesza and honestly thought, “The only thing missing is a top-notch house music artist.” This time around, I am going to reflect back to 2018. ![]() In my previous two installments leading up to Grand Rapids’ Breakaway Music Festival, I dove deep into the experience of activating an under-utilized asset in Belknap Park, and how impressed I was with the efforts of the respective promotion teams bringing forth such an extraordinary event. ![]()
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