The dates are set; Hopscotch 2012 is coming

I guess you could say it was inevitable, what with the seeming success of this year’s Hopscotch Music Festival.

With a simple Tweet Friday morning, Hopscotch announced that the third year of the ever-growing festival will take place Sept. 6-8, 2012.

Of course that is all we know for now; and it’s probably all we’ll know until 2012. But considering this year’s fest actually turned a bit of a profit this time around, hopefully we’ll see this already massive festival grow further.

“It cost a half-million dollars to throw Hopscotch this year. That’s a huge risk for a little alt-weekly like the Indy,” Indy Week President Steve Schewel wrote. “But by the grace of the Music Gods we dodged earthquake and hurricane, and the moon rose fat and full over City Plaza. And we’ll even make a small profit this year.”

In its first year, Hopscotch lost about $50,000, which Schewel called a “gift to the musicians, to the clubs, to Raleigh, to music fans from the Triangle and all over.”

Here’s to 2012! And to relive Hopscotch 2011 — including photo galleries, reviews and interviews — visit the Music.MyNC Hopscotch page.

Photo by Tim Lytvinenko

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