Indie Swamp-Rock Band The Weeks to Headline 36|86 “Southern Series” Party
April 7, 2015
At ConvergeSE Conference on April 15, 7:30pm
COLUMBIA, SC – Mississippi swamp-stomp band The Weeks will headline LaunchTN’s 36|86 Southern Series event, hosted in partnership with ConvergeSE on Wednesday, April 15, 2015 at Music Farm in Columbia, S.C. Doors will open at 7:30pm and the show starts at at 8 p.m. Concert tickets for the general public are $10, available here: http://bit.ly/1HtIcob.
Preceding the concert from 2 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., LaunchTN will host a regional startup business pitch contest and networking reception at Music Farm that is free to the public.
ConvergeSE, Columbia, S.C.’s next-generation web design and marketing conference, is partnering with Launch Tennessee (LaunchTN) to present the afternoon-long 36|86 Southern Series entrepreneurship event on April 15. The evening concert booking is provided by 36|86’s entertainment partner, AC Entertainment, the co-founders and co-producers of Bonnaroo.
“One of the coolest new aspects of this year’s ConvergeSE conference is that we’re bringing new, never-before-seen things to the Midlands, like the 36|86 startup party, with bands booked by the same company that produces Bonnaroo,” says ConvergeSE founder Gene Crawford. “It’s an afternoon of panels and speakers, and then ten startups will pitch their business idea to investors, like the show Shark Tank.”
The 36|86 Southern Series startup pitch contest on April 15 at Music Farm will run from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m., with a reception from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. featuring food and cash bar. The event will transform into an indie rock show at 7:30pm when doors open for an 8 p.m. live concert by The Weeks with Charleston, S.C.-based opener Brave Baby.
Named New Music Express’ Radar Band of the Week and noted as “older and wiser…soulful country-rockers” by Rolling Stone, The Weeks will stop into Columbia before playing the Visulite Theatre in Charlotte, N.C., and the NorVa in Norfolk, VA.
Tickets to the 36|86 Southern Series concert with The Weeks and Brave Baby are $10. Admission is free to the 2 p.m.-6:30 p.m. startup pitch contest and panel, but guests are asked to please pre-register. Buy tickets and/or pre-register here: http://bit.ly/1HtIcob. The concert is free for ConvergeSE conference badgeholders.
In its seventh year, ConvergeSE will bring together attendees from across the globe for keynote talks by big-name speakers from Adobe, Paypal, RetailMeNot, The Iron Yard and cult film “Sharknado” from Wednesday to Saturday, April 15-18, 2015 in the historic downtown Congaree Vista district of Columbia, S.C.
Tickets to ConvergeSE are $475 per person for the entire conference and $150 for a single day ticket. A “locals only” conference ticket discount of 20% is available for Midlands residents who use the code, “lovelocalscola” here: https://account.unmatchedstyle.com/register/convergese2015.
About ConvergeSE
ConvergeSE 2015 is produced by UnmatchedStyle and The Iron Yard. UnmatchedStyle is a Columbia, SC-based web development brand led by Gene Crawford, Giovanni DiFeterici and Jay Barry. UnmatchedStyle also produces conferences in Jacksonville and Orlando, Fla., Richmond, Va., Austin, Tex. and Nashville, Tenn. The Iron Yard is a web design company that trains high-quality developers and startups, with locations across the Southeast, including Columbia. To learn more about ConvergeSE and to register, visit www.convergese.com.
About LaunchTN
LaunchTN is a public-private partnership that supports the development of startup companies throughout Tennessee. Focusing on five key areas – entrepreneurship, commercialization, capital, corporate engagement, and outreach – the organization oversees nine business accelerators throughout the state, fosters angel investment, introduces local startups to venture capital firms, and hosts 36|86 – its annual conference on southeastern entrepreneurship and culture.
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