Rootstock 2023!

Rootstock is back for our 3rd year! We could not be more thrilled to welcome you to a once a year event with all of us at Revive the Roots. This year we have more music, more art and more good times to share with you.

Festivities kick off at 12 PM with bands starting at 12:30. Rootstock's musical lineup features 8 bands from Providence's local scene as well as acts from around New England.

This year Revive the Roots welcomes to the stage: Big Brute, The Whelks, Sun Urchins, Convinced Friend, Number One Babe, Hopper, and winners of Motif Magazine's 2023 Battle of the Bands, Meridian.

An eclectic range of music, meandering through the realms of Rock n’ Roll, Americana, 90’s grunge, Folk, Pop, Bluegrass, Singer Songwriter Ballads, and genres yet to be named!

The Bands!

Whelks

The Whelks Are An Acoustic Trio Hailing From Warren And Tiverton, Ri Consisting Of Peri Delorenzo On Fiddle, Mark Dobbyn On Guitar, And Erin Lobb Mason On Upright Bass. They Play A Mix Of Swing, Country, Old Time, Bluegrass, Irish, Folk, And Their Own Original Songs, All Dressed Up In Glorious Three Part Harmony.

Big Brute

A Sonically Beautiful Sense Of Home.

Hopper

Hopper Is Made Of Three Eggs, Inflation, Woe, Stardust, Chamfered Beams As Tall As The Day You Were Born, Beach-Bound Beauties, Bodacious Grist, Samuel Johnson's Lexicography, Some Kind Of Turtle, Happenstance, Carbon And Nitrogen, Tape, Underestimated Inner Resources, Stinky Pinkies, An Aversion To Memoir And All That It Stands For, Hopscotch, Butterscotch, Bourbon, Cognac, Even Sometimes Some Pot Don’t Tell Maureen, Wild Sockeye More Than Farmed North Atlantic, Porcupine Riffs, A Distant Memory Of A Far Echo Of A Fading Strain Of Orbison’s Succulent Baritone, Not Enough Proust, Never Enough Proust, What Might Or Might Not Be Hypochondria We Really Can’t Tell Could You Look At This Unsettling Contusion On My Left Elbow, Guppies, Millet, Profanity Mild By Really Any Standard, Compromise And Conviction.

Meridian

Garden Variety Indie Rock! Seven Humans. Honest Songwriting. Fun Grooves. Authentic And Emotionally Spellbinding, Meridian Is A Group Of Friends In Providence, Ri And The Winners Of Motif Magazine's 2023 Battle Of The Bands.

Convinced Friend
Lady Pills
Sun Urchins
And More!...

Date: September 23 , 2023

Time: 12pm - 6pm

Location: Revive the Roots, 374 Farnum Pike, Smithfield, RI 02917

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