AC Entertainment, the producers of Moogfest 2010-2012, have announced that the festival was being renamed the Mountain Oasis Electronic Music Summit, coming to Asheville, NC in 2013.
According to AC Entertainment, Moog Music declined to relicense the Moogfest name to the company. “We received a letter from them following this year’s festival, so we have no choice really but to re-name it,” AC Entertainment CEO Ashley Capps said.
Details are sketchy at this point – but we’d like to see somebody put the Moog firmly back into Moogfest.
via Marc Doty
What kind of fucking name is that?
The connection to Moog seemed to be the key reason to have it in Asheville. Nothing against Asheville, but if there’s no connection to Moog, they might as well hold it in some place more populated.
Asheville is a wonderful place… The beer alone is worth the visit.
Except they were charging $5 per beer (or was it more, can’t recall) _AFTER_ you paid some lame fee for the privilege to even approach the beer vendors. A total ripoff.
Happy I got to see Orbital, though 🙂
lol never go to nyc. ever.
Asheville is a great place for a festival. You folks in more populated areas get plenty of great music opportunities.
Somebody buy that Gold MinI Moog, donate it for auction c’mon Ashley Capps …
How about the Mountain Oasis Oscillator Gathering?
How about golden knob fest 🙂
Steady downhill slope from 2010 to 2012. I’m glad I have another reason not to go back next year.
I knew something was up when after entering their Circuitbending contest, they never even contacted us about sending us our free T-shirt for entering. Sucks royal! Good riddance if they refuse to get their shit together!
Moog don’t seem to be looking good of late…
Blame it on Dub Step…
So, what is Moog Music’s position on this? Moog is arguably the reason for this cool event, in a beautiful part of the country. What’s the backstory?
Enjoyed the Moogfest very much this year. Moog and the Bob Moog Foundation were very hands on. Makes me nervous that without their involvement, the artist draw might be a tad weaker. Could be wrong. Going to http://www.moogfest.com still offers a splinter of hope.