Swans will perform at Fletcher Theater for Hopscotch 2011

Just last week we brought you news of the Hopscotch Music Festival adding two new venues — Fletcher Opera Theater and White Collar Crime — to the annual festival’s already impressive lineup of 10.

Along with the announcement , the Hopscotch organizers teased, “This September, a visionary Paris-based composer, a Chapel Hill folk band, a seminal trio of Australian improvisers, an experimental Brooklyn siren and many more will take to Fletcher’s stage.”

Today, festival curator Grayson Currin revealed that one of those bands that will grace the stage at Fletcher Opera Theater will be the influential, and newly reformed post-punk band Swans.

“As we were booking the inaugural Hopscotch Music Festival, Michael Gira announced that he would, for the first time in nearly a decade, make music and tour with Swans,” Currin explained. “[W]e tried to book Swans, but they weren’t scheduled to start rehearsing until the week after Hopscotch 2010 ended. We didn’t have the ideal room for them, either.”

As a result of the addition of Fletcher, Hopscotch had an appropriate venue for the six-piece to play, and the band booked its tour around Hopscotch 2011′s Sept. 10 show date.

“When I drove north to Washington, D.C. last fall to see them perform, Gira already knew we’d made an offer to have Swans in Raleigh — for the first time ever, mind you — this year,” Currin wrote. “Finally, after more than a year of working out the details, Swans are coming to Raleigh.”

The announcement of Swans is certainly an exciting one, and it’s also the first official confirmation from the Hopscotch camp.

As we quickly approach the April 20 announcement of all of the acts destined to storm Raleigh this September, we can look forward to more nuggets of information leaking about this highly anticipated three-day fest.

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