![]() Stay Day-which has Classified and Quake Matthews on the lineup-is happening September 25 at The Marquee from noon to 5pm. Other changes to the fest include the new Stay Day showcase, a celebration of the legacy of late Dartmouth rapper Pat Stay who recently passed away. We acknowledge that our events take place on the unceded, occupied, ancestral and traditional lands of the xmkwym. The annual Hopscotch music festival which takes over venues around downtown Raleigh is set to return Sept. Among the day parties spread across downtown Raleigh on Saturday as a part of the Hopscotch Music Festival is a uniquely local celebration at State of Beer on Hillsborough Street. For now we're closely monitoring the weather," it says. Power outages and extreme weather may force us to cancel/postpone as well. The same Instagram post announcing these venue changes also cautions event attendees that further changes could occur depending on the forecast: "We still may need to cancel if flights can't land in Halifax. The shows-which headline DJ Jazzy Jeff and Coast Contra, respectively-will be first-come, first-serve, with priority given to festival pass holders. Since most of the annual event's programming was slated to take place outdoors at Grand Parade, a venue change-up is, of course, in order-and the event took to Instagram today to say that the free, all-ages shows on September 23 and 24 will be moving to The Light House Arts instead. And by midnight on Saturday, when the festival closed until next year, you couldn’t have drawn a line between the different camps of drinkers at all.Thanks to Hurricane Fiona, the team at Hopscotch Festival-the east coast's largest celebration of hip hop-have had to make some changes. Sons and father-and-laws discussed hundred-year-old whiskies over botanical-aged ciders and cappuccino stouts, and gaggles of early twenty-something girls waited in line for vertical flights of variously aged Scotch, or comparative tastings of Northwest whiskies. As space filled from some hundreds to over a thousand attendees and the effects of both varieties of alcohol set in, the beer and whiskey mixed and soon became indistinguishable. Here, the booming music was muffled and Master of Whiskey Peter Karras, fresh off a plane from New York, expounded on the virtues (and they were copious) of blended and single-malt Scotches, some older than the youngest festival-goers beyond the red curtain.īut as the afternoon progressed and the Scotch workshop finished, the curtain was pulled back to combine both groups. ![]() Meanwhile, the ticketed, seated Scotch workshop took place onstage behind a heavy red curtain. The beer drinkers milled about in loose groups on the venue’s main floor, stepping in and out of line before volunteer-poured kegs and bantering over the reverberations of deejayed pop music. And while the distinction is far from black and white, as the second day of the HopScotch festival kicked off early on Saturday afternoon there was a line drawn, even if it was blurred. Your average Scotch drinker is generally perceived as a little older, a little more sophisticated, and a little more mature. It didn’t begin that way – at its inception, as Hops on Equinox at Seattle Center, Hopscotch’s predecessor was solely a craft brewfest until being reimagined, renamed and rebranded seven years ago.Īlthough there is unquestionably overlap, stereotypes would paint beer and Scotch drinkers differently. They are 1/ea plus GST, PST and if using a card, a small convenience fee. They are sold in increments of 5, if using credit card or 20, if using cash. ![]() HopScotch is the only one of the three that sets out to fully incorporate two quite disparate beverage communities – whiskey enthusiasts and beer lovers. Otherwise, you can purchase your tokens inside the hall. Fremont Oktoberfest, also held in and around the spacious Fremont Studios that housed HopScotch, draws a full flannel-clad array of bearded and bespectacled beer-happy Fremonters, while Kirkland Uncorked, an outdoor wine tasting across Lake Washington in that comfortably affluent sleeper city, draws a relatively swankier suburban crowd. The fest, a signature function put on by Bold Hat Productions, is one of three annual major beverage-focused events held locally by that production company. Over the weekend, greater Seattle plus visitors from around the region reveled in the two days of festivities that marked the 11 th annual HopScotch Beer & Scotch Festival in the quirky Fremont neighborhood north of downtown Sea-town. The 11th Annual HopScotch Festival brings together diverse drinkers in the NW. ![]()
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