Road to KAHBang! Music Festival - 2010

Don't miss your LAST CHANCE to submit to open for Hey Marseilles on their East Coast tour to support their new album, To Travels and Trunks. Road to KAHBang! is a totally unique opportunity for a Sonicbids member to play a 6-city tour, culminating with a slot at KAHBang!, the premier independent festival in New England.
/n/nRoad to KAHBang! is a totally unique opportunity for a Sonicbids member to play a 6-city tour, culminating with a slot at KAHBang!, the premier independent festival in New England. The selected artist will go on the road supporting Hey Marseilles on their East Coast tour.

Green Vans will be providing the selected artist with an environmentally-friendly, biodiesel van.

The tour will take place August 1-6 and will have dates in the following markets:

• Philadelphia


• New York City


• Boston


• Northampton, MA


• Bangor, ME (KAHBang!)

Taking place on the historic Bangor waterfront and venues throughout the city, KAHBang! encompasses music, film and art. Headliners include OK Go, Biz Markie, Free Energy, Bad Rabbits, The Aviation Orange, The Gay Blades, as well as local, national, and international acts hosted across three stages.

Hey Marseilles will be touring in support of the new album, To Travels and Trunks (June 29th, 2010, Onto/ADA).

Read reviews from KahBang 2009: Paste Magazine, Bangor Daily News.

Press for KahBang 2010: WCSH6.com

Hey Marseilles Press Reviews



"For all the room-filling beauty of the symphonic climaxes on their first full-length album, there's just as much power and passion in the record's simplest, sparsest moments. What makes To Travels & Trunks so incredibly intoxicating, however, is something less definitive than notes and measures: A youthful earnestness, a genuine, unsullied passion for song, shines through every last second of Hey Marseilles' music."

Seattle Weekly

"The instrumentation is beautiful and dynamic, ranging from lamenting cello to joyful trumpets and everything in between."

KEXP Review

"Despite their name, Seattle's Hey Marseilles perform in la langue de Shakespeare, preferring instead to invoke the spirit of old-world Marseilles as an influence to their poetic, folkish, and stunningly orchestral music. The collection of pianos, cello, violins, and accordion might force some people to label it as "eclectic." I call it "magnifique."

A Limerick Ox