TRKfest Profiles: Midtown Dickens

Photo by Prachi Guariar, from TRKfest 2009.

As we near the fateful date of this year's bliss-tacular TRKfest, we'll be periodically profiling each band that will be gracing the stage. We'll tell you who they are, why they're special and why we invited them to play.

Artist: Midtown Dickens
Hails from: Durham
Played TRKfest?: One and a half times. Part of Megafaun & Friends in 2008.

We asked Midtown Dickens to play our other annual show, Christmas at the Cradle, in 2007 and we could tell right away that we would be fast friends. Kym Register and Catherine Edgerton, the founding members of Midtown Dickens, have the sort of infectious enthusiasm about life and that you want to be around all the time. We found ourselves trying to book them on every bill we put together, sure that as soon as they were singing "It's Alright" or "Old Dogs" at the top of their lungs, everyone at the show would be having the night of their lives. Since then, Kym and Catherine have become our best musical friends outside of the Trekky Collective. We've played house shows with them, toured with them, marched in birthday parades and chilled at hippie festivals. There was no question about asking them to play TRKfest again this year, in fact it would've felt wrong if they weren't playing.



MP3 | Midtown Dickens - Old Dogs [from the Lanterns LP]