![]() ![]() ![]() The first two venues accommodated several thousand quite easily, but the lines for The Orange Peel ran on for at least three blocks each time I tried to get in. As luck would have it, most of the shows I really wanted to catch were either at the Thomas Wolfe Auditorium, the free stage on Broadway outside the Moog factory and The Orange Peel, which is several blocks away. For someone unfamiliar with the town’s layout, it can take a couple of days to get a bearing on things. The footprint of Moogfest has the festival scattered over several blocks of downtown Asheville, but there’s no clear center of activity. The menu was packed with fascinating speakers on all sorts of subjects and the live music lineup was simply incredible. Its energy was palpable, the civic pride of Asheville and its attendant culture of inclusion was apparent everywhere and the organizers from Moog Music and the hundreds of volunteers couldn’t have been friendlier if they tried. First things first: The return of Moogfest, and my experience of it, was undeniably positive. ![]()
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