80/35 Music Festival

  • Startups strut stuff in first-year showcase at 80/35 Music Festival

    The inaugural year of Start-Up Central at 80/35 was modest — a single tent, promising information and a bit of shade on a sweltering day — but festival officials and startup founders alike see potential to build on the relationship between technology and music. “We actually share quite a bit in that we need to…

  • Start-Up Central to put tech startups on display at 80/35 Music Festival

    Music fans headed to Des Moines’ Western Gateway Park on Saturday for the 80/35 Music Festival probably have designs on catching Death Cab For Cutie, the concert’s second-day headliner. Other concert-goers may be drawn in by acts like Atmosphere, Greensky Bluegrass or Leftover Salmon. But what about Dwolla? Or BettrLife? And Locusic? That trio, along…

  • Prairie Moves: GCommerce, 80/35, Eliason Media & Sojern

    (Photo by Nicholas_T via Flickr) The goal of Prairie Moves is to keep our readers informed about career moves, press coverage, and product development from the companies and individuals we cover on Silicon Prairie News. If you or your company would like to submit one of the items below for our next Prairie Moves post,…

  • 80/35 Music Festival announces final lineup

    Next month will mark the third iteration of Des Moines’ premier musical festival: 80/35 (Twitter: @8035). Produced annually by the Greater Des Moines Music Coalition (DMMC), a non-profit startup promoting live music in Des Moines, this year’s festival recently announced the final lineup. The headliners are Modest Mouse and Spoon with primary supporting acts Slightly…

  • 80/35 Music Festival announces 2010 event, seeks musicians

    Late last week, the Des Moines Music Coalition announced the dates and venue for the 2010 iteration of the 80/35 Music Festival. Set for Saturday, July 3 and Sunday, July 4 this year’s festival will again take place at Western Gateway Park in downtown Des Moines. The organizers have put out a call for both…